A Simple Way to Distribute Mathematica Evaluations

TL;DR

This paper introduces a straightforward package that enables users to distribute Mathematica function evaluations across multiple computers with minimal code changes.

Contribution

It provides an easy-to-use solution for parallelizing Mathematica computations on clusters, requiring only a simple package and minimal code modifications.

Findings

Efficient distribution of evaluations across cluster nodes.

Minimal code changes needed for parallel execution.

Enhanced computational speed for large evaluations.

Abstract

We present a simple package for distributing evaluations of a Mathematica function for many arguments on a cluster of computers. After setting up the hosts, the only change is to replace Map[f,points] by MapCore[f,points].