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PathScale Announces Three HPC Innovations At SC2004

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

On Tuesday, the company unveiled PathScale InfiniPath, 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.

On Monday, PathScale announced its new OptiPath 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.

The company also announced its new EKOPath 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.

About PathScale

Based in Sunnyvale, Calif., 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.