Are there parallel versions of Mathematica?
A7. The MathLink communication protocol makes it easy for multiple Mathematica kernels on the same computer or different computers to communicate and work together in doing calculations. Very few of the core algorithms of Mathematica would benefit from present-day approaches to parallelism. Mathematica was, however, being used experimentally as the interface language to massively parallel computers such as the Thinking Machines Connection Machine before the massively parallel computing industry collapsed.
