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SC2004 SuperComputing Conference is Site of High Performance Computing -- HPC -- Innovations for Linux Cluster Users, Scientists, Researchers and MPI Programmers

Posted on: Wednesday, 10 November 2004, 15:00 CST

Introductions Made for Lowest Latency Linux Cluster Interconnect, World's First Root-Cause MPI Programming Tools and New Linux Compiler Suite Supporting OpenMP 2.0

Visitors to the SC2004 SuperComputing Conference in Pittsburgh this week were introduced to three new technology innovations from PathScale of Sunnyvale, CA, developer of innovative software and hardware solutions to accelerate the performance and efficiency of Linux clusters.

More details on these three announcements are available at http://www.pathscale.com.

On Tuesday, the company unveiled PathScale InfiniPath(tm), the industry's lowest latency Linux cluster interconnect that delivers SMP-class performance to commodity-priced clustered computing. InfiniPath leverages three important industry standards, HyperTransport, InfiniBand and the AMD64 architecture to maximize performance and make low-latency interconnects more affordable to a broader range of HPC users.

The PathScale InfiniPath interconnect dramatically increases cluster performance, scalability and throughput to empower HPC users to leverage the flexibility and cost effectiveness of Linux clusters for both parallel applications and applications that previously had been run on large, expensive, proprietary symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) computers.

InfiniPath was demonstrated at SC2004 in PathScale booth #1849 and AMD booth #1841. A data sheet and white paper on InfiniPath are available at http://www.pathscale.com/infinipath.html.

On Monday, PathScale announced its new OptiPath(tm) MPI Acceleration Tools, incorporating the best MPI programming expertise available, giving scientists, researchers and MPI experts direct visibility into complex MPI program and cluster behavior. OptiPath automates performance analysis and provides specific expert-level tuning advice that can be used to improve time to results and cluster efficiency. OptiPath was demonstrated at SC2004 in PathScale booth #1849 and HP booth #1220.

More information on OptiPath is available at http://www.pathscale.com/optipath.html.

The company also announced its new EKOPath(tm) Linux Compiler Suite 2.0 with a number of performance enhancing features and capabilities including support for OpenMP, inclusion of the AMD Core Math Library, support for Intel's EM64T and a revolutionary new serial debugger.

The PathScale EKOPath Compiler Suite was given the "Reader's Choice Award" for "Greatest Price Performance in a Software Application," presented at SC2004 by HPCwire, the global weekly publication for High Performance Computing.

More details on the availability of all three new PathScale technologies are available at http://www.pathscale.com.

About PathScale

Based in Sunnyvale, 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.

Source: Business Wire

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