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November 24, 2009

HPC Project Joins the Scilab Consortium

PARIS, Nov. 24 -- The Scilab Consortium, created with the ambition of making Scilab the open source reference in numerical computation, and the company HPC Project are pleased to announce that the latter is now a member of the Consortium.

HPC Project brings to the Consortium its expertise and "Wild Systems" technology in optimizing the performance of compute-intensive applications. Depending on the application, HPC Project customers benefit from performance improvements ranging from 10 to 100x compared with a typical desktop implementation. In addition, HPC Project manages the Open Source Portal Par4all, a joint initiative with Mines Paris Tech, which brings to the market the result of more than 100 man*year development effort, providing a suite of tools for automatic code parallelization and optimization on multi- and many-core architectures. HPC Project uses Par4all as the workbench for optimizing applications.

"HPC Project is pleased and excited to join the Scilab Consortium. We are looking forward in contributing to the development of the Scilab platform," said Emmanuel Chiva, VP, business development and partnerships for HPC Project. "Leveraging our strong relationships with chipset manufacturers such as NVIDIA, we will apply our technology and expertise to develop new extensions and modules for Scilab."

"HPC Project membership to the Scilab Consortium marks another important step for Scilab in realizing our strategic development choices," said Claude Gomez, director of the Scilab Consortium. "Indeed, the future versions of Scilab will implement HPC functionalities and the Scilab Consortium is glad HPC Project, a dynamic actor of the domain, supports and brings its expertise to this objective."

First developments will target a GPU Computing version, as well as domain-specific toolboxes such as financial mathematics.

About the Scilab Consortium

Created in 2003 at the initiative of INRIA, the Scilab Consortium has joined Digiteo research network on July 1st, 2008. Eighteen organizations unite their efforts within the consortium to make Scilab software, the free reference in numerical computation ensuring the integration of industrial needs and scientific advances. More than 50,000 downloads are done every months on Scilab Web site. For more information, go to www.scilab.org.

About HPC Project

HPC Project delivers cost-effective application-in-a-box solutions for demanding users who require intense computational power for modeling and simulation applications. The company was created in 2007 and quickly benefited from the support of leading French Venture Capitals. Now emerging from the product development phase, HPC Project is accelerating its commercialization in key markets around the globe. For more information, go to www.hpc-project.com.

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Source: Scilab Consortium; HPC Project

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