LinuxWorld Conference: Fujitsu-Siemens, Sumisho Electronics, Compusys PLC and Aspen Systems Are Among Fifteen New Global Resellers to Offer PathScale’s HPC Software Products

PathScale Extends Distribution of Its Award-Winning EKOPath 64-Bit Linux Compilers to New Channel Partners in Europe, Asia, Australia, and North America.

Boston, MA and Mountain View, CA, 02/17/2005, PathScale, developer of innovative software and hardware solutions to accelerate the performance and efficiency of Linux clusters has announced that fifteen new high performance computer (HPC) system manufacturers, OEMs and integrators have joined the PathScale FastPath™ reseller program. PathScale is exhibiting in the AMD booth at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in Boston from February 15 through 17, 2005 at the Hynes Convention Center.

More details are available at http://www.pathscale.com/authorized_resellers.html

The FastPath Program is a worldwide channel partner program that enables its members to accelerate sales, increase profitability and significantly enhance the performance of the HPC systems and solutions they deliver to their customers by offering the PathScale EKOPath™ Compiler Suite and other PathScale high-performance products, including the PathScale OptiPath MPI Acceleration Tools and the PathScale InfiniPath Interconnect. The PathScale Compiler Suite, comprised of C, C++ and Fortran 77/90/95 compilers, is the world’s highest performance compiler suite for 64-bit Linux-based systems.

The latest new global members of the FastPath program include:


Aertia Software of Barcelona, Spain
Aravision of Taipei, Taiwan
Aspen Systems of Wheat Ridge, Colorado
Compusys PLC of Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, UK
Cougar Computers of Canberra, Australia
DataSwift of Neuilly sur Seine, France
Fujitsu-Siemens Computers based in Munich, Germany
Megware of Röhrsdorf, Germany
OCF of Sheffield, UK
Panta Systems of Cupertino, California
Progression Infonet of Haryana, India
Qast Systems Solutions of Shanghai, China
Scalable Systems of Singapore
Sumisho Electronics of Tokyo, Japan
Western Scientific of San Diego, California

In January, PathScale shipped its newest version of the EKOPath Compiler Suite with a number of performance-enhancing features and capabilities including support for OpenMP, an optimized version of the AMD Core Math Library (ACML), support for Intel’s EM64T and a revolutionary new serial debugger.
Free 30-day trial versions of the PathScale compilers are available at www.pathscale.com/trial.php.

Building on the success of the EKOPath compiler suite, PathScale recently announced the PathScale InfiniPath™ HTX Adapter, the industry’s lowest latency Linux cluster interconnect for MPI applications, and the PathScale OptiPath™ MPI Acceleration Tools, the industry’s first user friendly root cause analysis tools for optimizing MPI applications. Customers interested in getting early access to InfiniPath and OptiPath can register to evaluate these new products by visiting www.pathscale.com/earlyaccess.html.

About PathScale

Based in Mountain View, California, PathScale develops innovative software and hardware technologies that substantially increase the performance and efficiency of Linux clusters, the next significant wave in high-end computing. Applications that benefit from PathScale’s technologies include seismic processing, complex physical modeling, EDA simulation, molecular modeling, biosciences, econometric modeling, computational chemistry, computational fluid dynamics, finite element analysis, weather modeling, resource optimization, decision support and data mining. PathScale’s investors include Adams Street Partners, Charles River Ventures, Enterprise Partners Venture Capital, CMEA Ventures, ChevronTexaco Technology Ventures and the Dow Employees Pension Plan. For more details, visit www.pathscale.com, send email to sales@pathscale.com or telephone 1-650-934-8100.

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