http://www.mapleprimes.com/maplesoftblog/103907-Introducing-Maple-15 en-us 2026 Maplesoft, A Division of Waterloo Maple Inc. Maplesoft Document System Fri, 12 Jun 2026 23:05:04 GMT Fri, 12 Jun 2026 23:05:04 GMT The latest comments added to the Blog Entry, Introducing Maple 15 http://www.mapleprimes.com/images/mapleprimeswhite.jpg http://www.mapleprimes.com/maplesoftblog/103907-Introducing-Maple-15 http://www.mapleprimes.com/maplesoftblog/103907-Introducing-Maple-15?ref=Feed:MaplePrimes:Introducing Maple 15:Comments#comment103911 <p>Cool!&nbsp; Great to see Maple utilizing multi cores.&nbsp; What about Maple's advances towards accessing the millions of processors on a graphics card?</p> The latest comments added to the Blog Entry, Introducing Maple 15 103911 Thu, 07 Apr 2011 21:46:05 Z Christopher2222 Christopher2222 http://www.mapleprimes.com/maplesoftblog/103907-Introducing-Maple-15?ref=Feed:MaplePrimes:Introducing Maple 15:Comments#comment103917 <p>financial Math was updated as well?</p> The latest comments added to the Blog Entry, Introducing Maple 15 103917 Fri, 08 Apr 2011 00:21:40 Z Axel Vogt Axel Vogt http://www.mapleprimes.com/maplesoftblog/103907-Introducing-Maple-15?ref=Feed:MaplePrimes:Introducing Maple 15:Comments#comment103926 <p>this is quite motivating ,i like Physics package,significant enhancements of physics will bring me more&nbsp;pleasant surprise.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> The latest comments added to the Blog Entry, Introducing Maple 15 103926 Fri, 08 Apr 2011 05:44:48 Z lxyuzs lxyuzs http://www.mapleprimes.com/maplesoftblog/103907-Introducing-Maple-15?ref=Feed:MaplePrimes:Introducing Maple 15:Comments#comment103928 <p><a href="http://www.mapleprimes.com/maplesoftblog/103907-Introducing-Maple-15#comment103917">@Axel Vogt</a> The detailed preview of the <a href="http://www.maplesoft.com/products/maple/new_features/finance.aspx">Finance package</a> (new in 15) looks a lot like the descriptions of what's up-to-now been called the <a href="http://www.maplesoft.com/products/toolboxes/financial/">Financial Modeling Toolbox</a>.</p> The latest comments added to the Blog Entry, Introducing Maple 15 103928 Fri, 08 Apr 2011 06:05:29 Z pagan pagan http://www.mapleprimes.com/maplesoftblog/103907-Introducing-Maple-15?ref=Feed:MaplePrimes:Introducing Maple 15:Comments#comment103958 <p>Are there any functions regarding delay differential equations?</p> The latest comments added to the Blog Entry, Introducing Maple 15 103958 Fri, 08 Apr 2011 08:01:25 Z belief111 belief111 http://www.mapleprimes.com/maplesoftblog/103907-Introducing-Maple-15?ref=Feed:MaplePrimes:Introducing Maple 15:Comments#comment103961 <p><a href="http://www.mapleprimes.com/maplesoftblog/103907-Introducing-Maple-15#comment103911">@Christopher2222</a>&nbsp;I don't expect Laurent to tip his hand :) &nbsp;High end GPUs actually have about 512 cores (shaders), organized into blocks of 16-48 cores (per streaming multiprocessor). &nbsp;All cores in a multiprocessor should&nbsp;be executing the same code. &nbsp;The multiprocessors interleave up to 32 threads, so 16384 simultaneous threads are about the maximum today.</p> <p>The GPUs in notebooks and most desktops are considerably less powerful at the moment. &nbsp;For example, my notebook has a GeForce 320M (MCP89) with 48 cores. &nbsp;It does about 120 GFLOPs single precision, whereas a Core i7 would do around 90. &nbsp;The newer mobile GPUs are twice as fast, and you can see the performance is starting to pull away from CPUs.</p> <p>The catch is that you have to use single precision floats (24-bit mantissa) to get good performance. &nbsp;There's a strong case for moving floating point algorithms to GPUs now and using iterative methods to gain precision. &nbsp;For general computer algebra there is a slightly longer window because CPUs are doing 64-bit integer arithmetic.</p> <p>That's only for the algorithms where GPUs make sense however. &nbsp;Basically, dense algorithms. &nbsp;Dense polynomials and linear algebra, graphs, simulations, etc. &nbsp;For anything sparse or structured GPUs are hard to use, and you want threads on a multicore cpu. &nbsp;The multithreading going into Maple now is focused on those cases because it's a good investment now and it won't be obsolete later, although I expect GPUs to push the applicability of dense algorithms out very far. &nbsp;I'm sure in 10 years we'll be shocked by what we can compute. &nbsp;We'll be there.</p> The latest comments added to the Blog Entry, Introducing Maple 15 103961 Fri, 08 Apr 2011 10:06:08 Z roman_pearce roman_pearce