Check out the latest blog post for Mathcad written by Jakov Kucan, Mathcad's Director of Software Development at PTC. This blog is titled, "Multi-threading, Multi-core, and Parallel Calculation in Mathcad (part 2)" and walks you through linear algebra operations, parallelizing calculations of individual equations, takes you through an example, and explains how multi-threading, multi-core, and parallel calculations can be a benefit to you. Here is an excerpt:
"As discussed in the previous blog, Mathcad’s multi-threading option does not affect parallelization of individual equations. Here we discuss a different low-level mechanism to take advantage of the multi-core architectures.
Under the hood, Mathcad utilizes Intel® MKL (Math Kernel Library) which is optimized to take advantage of Intel®’s multi-core processors. So what does MKL do? At the high level it leverages different strategies to divide a problem into several sub-problems of smaller size, calculates these in parallel (allocating different processor cores to each sub-problem), and then combines the partial results into one."
Read the full blog post here.
