is maxima suitable for multiprocessor computations?

Richard Fateman wrote:
> I disagree. Some algorithms like polynomial multiplication, can be mapped to multiple processors fairly easily.  Some lisps support parallelism with various levels of cost (OS process vs light-weight threads).
> 

Are there interesting symbolic problems that would really benefit from 
parallelism?  So what if I can do parallel polynomial multiplication 
really fast?  Does that lead to some interesting result?

I think I have some understanding of numerical problems that would 
benefit from parallelism, but I don't know anything about symbolic 
problems.

Ray