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June 29, 2007
Visual Numerics Announces Support for IBM Blue Gene/P
DRESDEN, Germany, June 26 -- International Supercomputing Conference ISC'07 -- Visual Numerics, Inc., a leading producer of advanced numerical analysis and visualization software, today announced support for IBM's Blue Gene/P, the second generation of the world's most powerful supercomputer. Visual Numerics' IMSL Fortran Numerical Library 6.0 will leverage the Blue Gene/P shared memory and distributed memory technology so that Fortran application developers can build high performance computing applications that exceed one petaflop.
The IMSL Fortran Library 6.0 is the first announced third-party set of mathematical and statistical libraries to be offered with IBM's Blue Gene/P, which features four low-frequency (850 MHz) PowerPC 450 processors on a single chip. In addition, the IMSL Fortran Library 6.0 offers improved MPI coverage, integrated ScaLAPACK support, as well as the ability to leverage IBM's ESSL and OpenMP in order to support both shared memory and distributed memory technology for developing high performance computing applications. As a result, developers now have the means to combine IBM's supercomputing power and Visual Numerics' libraries to accelerate application innovation for a range of computationally intensive industries and research areas such as oil & gas, financial services, aerospace, life sciences, and meteorology.
"We are elated that Visual Numerics has raised its hand in support of the Blue Gene/P technology with the latest version of IMSL," said Dave Turek, vice president of Deep Computing at IBM. "The availability of IMSL provides our Blue Gene customers with an extensive and reliable set of mathematical and statistical functions to help meet their application development requirements."
The IMSL Fortran Numerical Library 6.0 includes:
- A new state-of-the-art Dense Linear Programming Algorithm.
- New ScaLAPACK Integration Support -- gives users easy access to MPI-enabled algorithms and utilities, and allows them to write parallel code by removing many of the complexities in developing MPI-based applications.
- Cross-platform coverage so applications developed on the desktop can be deployed to Blue Gene/P.
- Backward compatibility to enable the migration of legacy applications to Blue Gene/P.
Visual Numerics and IBM have been partners for more than 35 years and offer the most advanced, high performance computing solutions to the developer community," said Phil Fraher, president and CEO of Visual Numerics. "Already a number of Visual Numerics' customers have indicated they will migrate to the Blue Gene/P technology. With the IMSL Fortran Library 6.0, the most complete Fortran-based library solution available on IBM Blue Gene/P, we're giving customers and other developers a competitive advantage in building the fastest applications available in their industries."
About Visual Numerics
Visual Numerics has provided technical software solutions for numerical analysis and visualization for more than three decades. The company's software products help users understand complex data from a variety of sources and build business-critical applications. Visual Numerics offers two product lines: the IMSL Numerical Libraries for powerful mathematical and statistical analysis and the PV-WAVE visual data analysis development environment. Visual Numerics also offers consulting services for applications that involve mathematical, statistical, or visual data analysis to meet today's business analytical needs.
Major corporations, academic institutions, and research laboratories worldwide use Visual Numerics' software tools, including such high profile companies as: Bear, Stearns & Company; Barclays Global Investors; Priceline.com; Humana; Sandia National Laboratories; and Boeing Company. This large and diverse customer base is supported through a direct sales force, wholly owned international subsidiaries, and international distributors. For more information about Visual Numerics, please visit www.vni.com.
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Source: Visual Numerics
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