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Visual Numerics Announces Support For HP Itanium 2 Family

Visual Numerics Inc, a leading provider of numerical analysis and visualization software, announced that the company will port its IMSL Numerical Libraries to HP Integrity servers and HP workstations, which use Intel's flagship 64-bit Itanium 2 chip for the high performance computing and Linux markets. The IMSL Libraries powered by Itanium 2 on RedHat Linux and the Intel C and Fortran compilers will provide HP users with industry-standard mathematics and statistics algorithms on one of the most advanced computing platforms available.

The combination of the industry-standard IMSL Libraries with an Itanium 2-based HP system running on a Linux OS will provide a critical foundation for performing complex computations in the scientific, life sciences, aerospace, investment, finance, government and engineering markets. Its 64-bit architecture enhances performance by addressing vastly more memory than traditional 32-bit PC architectures and enabling computation of more complex problems. In addition, Linux is a platform well suited for research, modeling, design and visualization technologies.

"We're committed to offering our customers the highest quality numerical analysis solutions, on the fastest, most widely used, high-performance computing platforms today," said Phil Fraher, COO of Visual Numerics. "Our IMSL Library ports to HP's Itanium 2-based systems will provide super computing users, in a range of markets, with the power to confidently perform advanced computational analysis and visualization."

"Our customers demand reliable solutions that support our Itanium 2-based systems--HP Integrity servers and HP zx workstations," said Winston Prather, vice president and general manager of the High Performance Technical Computing Division at HP. "Visual Numerics' IMSL Libraries meet that demand for the application developers of sophisticated computationally intensive applications."