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Maplesoft Document System Tue, 16 Jun 2026 07:44:30 GMT Tue, 16 Jun 2026 07:44:30 GMT The latest comments added to the Blog Entry, New Parallel Features in Maple 14 http://www.mapleprimes.com/images/mapleprimeswhite.jpg http://www.mapleprimes.com/maplesoftblog/94987-New-Parallel-Features-In-Maple-14 http://www.mapleprimes.com/maplesoftblog/94987-New-Parallel-Features-In-Maple-14?ref=Feed:MaplePrimes:New Parallel Features in Maple 14:Comments#comment94992 <p>Darin,</p> <p>Thanks for the news on the new parallelism features in Maple 14. &nbsp;Am I correct in assuming that these features can be used on a single machine with a multi-core processor? &nbsp;I'm building a new machine with an Intel Core i7 Quad-Core processor, 8 GB of RAM, and 64-bit Windows 7. &nbsp;Are there any special issues with parallelism in Maple 14 on this computing platform?</p> <p>I just noticed that you've written a whole series of articles on parallelism in Maple. &nbsp;I've bookmarked your blog and look forward to studying your articles!</p> <p>Thanks again,</p> <p>Fred</p> <!--break--> <p>__________________________________________________________</p> <p>Frederick W. Chapman, PhD (Waterloo), MMath (Waterloo), BA (Lehigh)<br> Technical Consultant and Research Scientist at F.W.&nbsp;Chapman Solutions<br> <a href="http://www.fwchapman.com/"> www.fwchapman.com</a> &nbsp;|&nbsp; <a href="http://blog.fwchapman.com/">blog.fwchapman.com</a> &nbsp;|&nbsp; <a href="http://photos.fwchapman.com/">photos.fwchapman.com</a></p> The latest comments added to the Blog Entry, New Parallel Features in Maple 14 94992 Sat, 10 Jul 2010 08:15:14 Z fwchapman fwchapman http://www.mapleprimes.com/maplesoftblog/94987-New-Parallel-Features-In-Maple-14?ref=Feed:MaplePrimes:New Parallel Features in Maple 14:Comments#comment95010 <p><a href="http://www.mapleprimes.com/maplesoftblog/94987-New-Parallel-Features-In-Maple-14#comment94992">@fwchapman</a> That setup sounds fine.&nbsp; The most important aspect is probably the processor and RAM.&nbsp; The Core i7 performs better when executing parallel code than older processors.&nbsp;&nbsp; Of course, more RAM is almost always better.&nbsp; There are no limitations that are particular to your setup, but parallel programming in Maple does have some limitations, which I outlined in a previous blog post.</p> <p><a href="http://www.mapleprimes.com/maplesoftblog/36467-The-Current-Limitations-Of-Parallel">http://www.mapleprimes.com/maplesoftblog/36467-The-Current-Limitations-Of-Parallel</a></p> The latest comments added to the Blog Entry, New Parallel Features in Maple 14 95010 Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:14:31 Z dohashi dohashi http://www.mapleprimes.com/maplesoftblog/94987-New-Parallel-Features-In-Maple-14?ref=Feed:MaplePrimes:New Parallel Features in Maple 14:Comments#comment95229 <p><a href="http://www.mapleprimes.com/maplesoftblog/94987-New-Parallel-Features-In-Maple-14#comment95010">@dohashi</a>&nbsp;</p> <p>More RAM isn't alwyas better.&nbsp; I've been running Maple 10 and when I upgraded my laptop to 2 Gb of RAM, Maple wouldn't start anymore.&nbsp; Anyone know of a good work around for this issue?&nbsp; BTW, Maple Classic starts OK, just Maple for Windows that is giving trouble.&nbsp;</p> The latest comments added to the Blog Entry, New Parallel Features in Maple 14 95229 Mon, 19 Jul 2010 22:32:19 Z TexasGlen TexasGlen http://www.mapleprimes.com/maplesoftblog/94987-New-Parallel-Features-In-Maple-14?ref=Feed:MaplePrimes:New Parallel Features in Maple 14:Comments#comment95296 <p><a href="http://www.mapleprimes.com/maplesoftblog/94987-New-Parallel-Features-In-Maple-14#comment95229">@TexasGlen</a>&nbsp;</p> <p>This is actually a known issue with older versions of Java (like the one Maple 10 uses).&nbsp; You can find the solution here:</p> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="http://www.maplesoft.com/support/faqs/detail.aspx?sid=32618">http://www.maplesoft.com/support/faqs/detail.aspx?sid=32618</a></p> <p>Basically you'll just need to add a line like "<span class="body"><span>maxheap=700m" to Maple's launch.ini file.<br></span></span></p> The latest comments added to the Blog Entry, New Parallel Features in Maple 14 95296 Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:58:50 Z Lark Lark http://www.mapleprimes.com/maplesoftblog/94987-New-Parallel-Features-In-Maple-14?ref=Feed:MaplePrimes:New Parallel Features in Maple 14:Comments#comment95345 <p>I would love to see more details on External Calling.&nbsp; What I really want is to be able to write programs that execute on a GPU and then call them from Maple, with or without having them called in parallel.</p> The latest comments added to the Blog Entry, New Parallel Features in Maple 14 95345 Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:25:44 Z marvin marvin http://www.mapleprimes.com/maplesoftblog/94987-New-Parallel-Features-In-Maple-14?ref=Feed:MaplePrimes:New Parallel Features in Maple 14:Comments#comment95347 <p>By the way, how come there is no documentation for Threads:-Task:-Return ?</p> The latest comments added to the Blog Entry, New Parallel Features in Maple 14 95347 Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:29:54 Z marvin marvin