Maplesoft's Global Optimization Toolbox Penetrates Key Markets; Powerful Solution Brings Industrial-Class Optimization to Academic Commercial and Research App

Its suite of products includes Maple 9., A new collaboration between IBM and
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Released in June 2004, the Global Optimization
Toolbox extends the power of Maple (TM) 9.5, the standard among
interactive math software, enabling a wide range of professionals to
obtain the mathematically optimized solution to complex modeling
problems.5, the standard among
interactive mathematical software; MapleNet, a comprehensive
mathematical infrastructure for the Web; and Maple T., a system for
automated grading of mathematics tests. Maplesoft products embody the
most advanced and integrated technology for both numeric and symbolic
solution of complex problems.

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Optimization is the science of finding solutions that satisfy
complicated constraints and objectives. "Maple is a cornerstone for my daily research and
to have an easy-to-use, Maple-based toolbox for projects such as
non-convex optimization and objective functions is ideal."
Prospective uses of such fast computer capability include large
applications in aerospace, automotive engineering , biotechnology, chemistry,
energy and physics.
"The Blue Gene systems offer an exciting path to petascale computing.

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Maplesoft's
commercial customer base includes Boeing, Bosch, Canon and NASA . IBM and Argonne have agreed to augment Argonne's
INCITE computer capacity with compute cycles on IBM's Blue Gene system at IBM
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"The Global Optimization Toolbox has given me a new way to handle
the complex and difficult optimization problems in my operations
research projects," said Professor Mahmut Parlar, chair, Management
Science/Information Systems, DeGroote School of Business, McMaster
University, Canada. The Global
Optimization Toolbox is a very valuable resource for anyone who deals
with nonlinear optimization problems in operations research,
engineering, economics or other applied sciences.S." BGW is the
second fastest computer in the world ( http://www. The
DOE INCITE program provides a way for researchers to explore challenging
applications on machines that are going to define the future of science," said
Rick Stevens, acting associate laboratory director of Physical , Biological and
Computing Sciences at Argonne.

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In addition to US-based organizations such as Fairchild
Semiconductor, Kentucky State University and Los Alamos National
Laboratory, the Global Optimization Toolbox is being used by
organizations in Japan, Korea, Germany, Italy and France, among
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The Global Optimization Toolbox is part of the Maple Professional
Toolbox series of add-on products that greatly extend the scope and
functionality of Maplesoft products in specialized application areas.maplesoft. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory will provide
significant enhancements to computer capabilities available to scientific
researchers around the world.top500.
Proposals can be for one to three years.

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Designed to work seamlessly with the core Maple product suite, these
high-performance products deploy best-of-breed technology to deliver
maximum benefit from the world's most powerful technical software
platform. In addition,
Maplesoft leads the market with innovations that make the management
of technical knowledge - whether in industry, or in a classroom - more
effective and efficient.com .

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Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.

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The goal of global
optimization is to find the absolute best answer for models that have
a number of possible solutions , a process that can be extremely
difficult without the best tools.
"The Global Optimization Toolbox meets the needs of industry
professionals by providing the tools they need to solve a wide range
of complex modeling problems, ranging from advanced engineering design
applications to econometrics and finance, management science, medical
research and biotechnology, and scientific modeling," said Dr."
"Maple's optimization add-on has permitted me to lock in on
optimal parameters in problems involving six parameters on a system
with three orders of magnitude for each dimension," said Ron Lenk,
systems applications engineering manager at Tyco Electronics and
author of Practical Design of Power Supplies.A. At Argonne, 10 percent of the
resources on its IBM Blue Gene/L will be available under the INCITE program. The program seeks computationally intensive
research projects of large scale that can make high-impact scientific advances
through the use of a large allocation of computer time and data storage. The INCITE program also provides the opportunities for industry
to use high -end computing as encouraged in recent reports by the Council on
Competitiveness. Argonne has worked with more than 600 companies and numerous
federal agencies and other organizations to help advance America's scientific
leadership and prepare the nation for the future.

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ARGONNE, Ill.
The computer time will be made available to researchers through the
Department of Energy's INCITE program -- Innovative and Novel Computational
Impact on Theory and Experiment.

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Additionally, virtually every major university and research institute
in the world, including MIT, Stanford, Oxford and Waterloo, has
adopted Maple products to enhance their education and research
activities.J. Applicant codes must be
demonstrably ready to run on the requested computing systems.

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Frequently, engineers and
researchers are forced to settle for solutions that are "good enough"
at the expense of extra time, money, and resources , because the best
solution has not been found. "Using the Global Optimization
Toolbox, users can formulate optimization models easily inside the
powerful Maple numeric and symbolic system, and then use world-class
Maple numeric solvers to return the best answer, fast. Toolboxes target key application areas in engineering,
science and technical application development. Drawing on resources from across
IBM and key Business Partners, IBM offers a wide range of services, solutions
and technologies that enable customers, large and small, to take full
advantage of the new era of e-business.

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A small number of large awards are
anticipated. The Council has identified and reported on industry-specific
"grand challenges" that could make a significant contribution to national
productivity and competitiveness if more computational capability could be
made available to solve them. For more information about IBM, visit
http://www.

About Argonne
The nation's first national laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory
conducts basic and applied scientific research across a wide spectrum of
disciplines , ranging from high-energy physics to climatology and
biotechnology.

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All these could benefit
from increased availability of computing power to researchers, according to
the Council.ibm. Department of Energy Office of Science.

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For more information, visit www.

Argonne Taps IBM Blue Gene for DOE INCITE Program

About IBM
IBM is the world's largest information technology company, with 80 years
of leadership in helping businesses innovate.

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In business, constraints are related
to many factors, including cost, time and staff.

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Its standards-compliant algorithms are
renowned for its speed, accuracy and reliability.com

Argonne and IBM are developing a plan for researchers to request
computation time on the IBM Blue Gene system nicknamed "BGW.
"IBM invested in BGW, the fastest privately owned supercomputer in the
world, to explore a range of fields including life sciences, hydrodynamics,
materials sciences, quantum chemistry, molecular dynamics and fluid dynamics
-- as well as business applications," said Dave Turek, vice president Deep
Computing , IBM. "Due to the overwhelming demand of requests for this platform,
we are pleased to be participating in the INCITE program with Argonne and the
DOE, and look forward to the results of research conducted on Blue Gene. The program includes high-end computing
resources not only at Argonne but also at DOE 's Oak Ridge, Lawrence Berkeley
and Pacific Northwest national laboratories.

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The INCITE program is open to all scientific researchers and research
organizations, including industry. Examples cited by the Council include full
vehicle design, oil and gas recovery, auto crash safety, textile manufacture
and customized catalysts to improve crude oil yields.

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In engineering, constraints
may arise from technical issues. "Full global
optimization is critical and Maple's optimization add-on is the only
software I have tried that even comes close to solving these
problems. Over two million users at thousands of
organizations benefit from advanced Maple technology.

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Business Editors/High -Tech Editors

WATERLOO, Canada----Maplesoft(TM),
the leading provider of high-performance software tools for
engineering, science and mathematics, today announced the success of
its Global Optimization Toolbox in the academic, commercial and
research markets. Recent accomplishments under the INCITE program have
included detailed three-dimensional combustion simulations of flames,
providing new insight into reducing pollutants; astrophysics simulations of
the forces that help newly born stars and black holes increase in size; and
protein simulations designed to advance scientists' knowledge about the
function of proteins and their use in drug design. Applicants must also present evidence that
they can make effective use of a major fraction of the processors of the high-
performance computing systems offered for allocation.

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Laurent
Bernardin, Maplesoft's Chief Scientist.

About Maplesoft

Maplesoft is a world leader in mathematical and analytical
software.
Successful proposals to the INCITE program will describe high-impact
scientific research in terms suitable for peer review in the area of research
and also appropriate for general scientific review comparing them with
proposals in other disciplines.

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For more information,
visit http://www.org ), with a
capacity of 91 teraflops -- 91 trillion calculations per second . The University of Chicago
manages Argonne for the U.