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UC-DEI - University of Coimbra, Dept. of Computer Science | |
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WMPI started as one the first full implementations of the Message Passing Interface standard (MPI) for clusters based on Microsoft's Windows platforms (Win32). Its research and development started in University of Coimbra (UC-DEI) with work partially supported by the Portuguese Ministry of Science and Technology, the EC R&D Unit 326/94 (CISUC), the ESPRIT IV 23516 (WINPAR) project and the PRAXIS XXI 2/2.1/ TIT/1625/95 (PARQUANTUM) project.
The Department of Computer Science from University of Coimbra continues to work closely with Critical Software, SA to improve WMPI and add even more MPI standard compliance, improve performance, robustness, reliability and scalability. |
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Microsoft Corporation | |
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Founded in 1975, Microsoft is the worldwide leader in software, services and Internet technologies for personal and business computing. The company offers a wide range of products and services designed to empower people through great software - any time, any place and on any device.
Critical Software participated on the MS High-Performance Computing Awareness Campaign during 2003 and is presently working with Microsoft to drive customers and users to use HPC solutions on Windows based-clusters. Critical Software is also a MS HPC partner. Please see www.microsoft.com/hpc for more information. |
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HP | |
| HP’s Unified Cluster Portfolio offers comprehensive modular solutions
utilizing industry-standard servers, with a choice of Linux, HP-UX, or Windows, and
supporting middleware options. Tested and supported implementations of HP Cluster Platforms
greatly simplify cluster design and deployment.
HP is including WMPI II as part of their HPC software development environment to use with its packaged cluster solutions. This is part of HP's strategy to provide the latest tools technology aimed at increased HPC programmer productivity. |
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| http://www.hp.com/techservers/clusters/ | |||
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IBM | |
| IBM is the world's largest information technology company, with
80 years of leadership in helping businesses innovate. Drawing on resources
from across IBM and key Business Partners, IBM offers a wide range of services,
solutions and technologies that enable customers, large and small, to take
full advantage of the new era of e-business.
Critical Software is proud to be part of IBM’s Departmental Supercomputing Solution initiative which aims to deliver pre-configured clusters to small and medium sized businesses so they can take advantage of the fantastic price/performance benefits that today’s COTS cluster technology offer without having to be experts in the field of HPC. For more information, see our IBM Departmental Supercomputing Solution
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| http://www.ibm.com/servers/deepcomputing | |||
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NetEffect | |
| Critical are partnering with NetEffect to develop support for their 10Gbps iWARP Ethernet Channel Adapters in the standard WMPI II release for Windows and Linux. NetEffect is a privately held network connectivity solutions company providing next generation, multi-gigabit Ethernet products. These products fully implement iWARP standards, the new series of Ethernet extensions. iWARP enables Ethernet scalability to deliver high throughput for networking, fast access for storage, and low latency for clustering. NetEffect solutions can concurrently support legacy Ethernet infrastructures and the new generation of storage and clustering applications, at 10Gbps speeds.
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SilverStorm | |
| Leveraging the breakthrough advances of the InfiniBand architecture, SilverStorm (formerly Infinicon) offers a complete systems solution for enabling HPC and cluster users to leverage the true potential of the ‘scale out’ model of computing. Their award-winning InfinIO product family provides the high performance, dynamic infrastructure required for designing and managing highly scalable, highly available clustered server environments that allow efficient ‘scale up’ of Linux and Windows clusters, yet integrate seamlessly into today’s Fibre Channel and Ethernet networks. For additional information, contact them at info@silverstorm.com
Critical Software partnered recently with SilverStorm by joining their I³ Program. Through this ISV initiative, Critical’s HPC division will be able to incorporate their high-performance WMPI II implementation into SilverStorm’s software stack, taking advantage of the RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) architecture of their high-speed interconnectors to create an extremely low latency and high bandwidth message-passing environment. |
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Allinea Software | |
| Allinea Software are the makers of the Distributed Debugging
Tool (DDT) which is a comprehensive graphical debugger designed for the
complex task of debugging parallel code. DDT has a unique and intuitive
graphical interface that puts you in control of your parallel application,
whether you are working with 4 processes on a workstation or 1024 across
a high-performance cluster.
Critical Software have teamed up with Allinea Software to offer an attractively priced Deployment Bundle aimed at Linux Customers who want to port their existing applications to run with WMPI II or want to develop parallel applications from scratch. For more information on this offer, contact wmpi-sales@criticalsoftware.com. |
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PathScale | |
| PathScale develops innovative technologies that substantially increase the
performance and efficiency of Linux clusters, the next significant wave in high-end
computing. The company has developed the industry’s highest performing C, C++, and Fortran
9X compilers for 64-bit AMD Opteron processor Linux-based computer systems.
Critical Software are resellers of PathScale products and can offer attractive discounts to our middleware users who wish to use PathScales's state of the art compilers to obtain optimum performance when running our AMD Opteron compliant MPI implementations. For more information take a look at the data sheet or contact wmpi-sales@criticalsoftware.com. |
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INTEL | |
| Intel Cluster Tools (formerly marketed as Vampir and Vampir
Trace) assist developers and managers of distributed systems to obtain the
best performance from their parallel applications. Intel Trace Analyzer
provides a convenient way to graphically analyze the runtime event traces
of Intel Trace Collector, allowing developers to quickly focus on the desired
level of detail.
Critical software’s WMPI products fully integrate with Intel Trace Collector and Analyser to ensure that parallel code developed to run using WMPI can be tuned for optimum performance. Critical Software resell the full range of Intel compilers and technical computing libraries. We can offer Intel Cluster Tools at a very competitive price when purchased in conjunction with WMPI middleware. For more information on this offer, contact wmpi-sales@criticalsoftware.com. |
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AMD | |
| AMD is a global supplier of integrated circuits for the
computing, communications, and consumer electronics markets. AMD produces
microprocessors, Flash memory devices, and silicon solutions for communications
and networking applications. The AMD Opteron processor for servers and workstations is the only processor in the world designed to run today’s 32-bit software with the next generation of industry-standard 64-bit software — simultaneously and without compromise. Critical Software realise the importance of supporting the increased computing capabilities that AMD64 bit technology offers and consequently have committed development effort to ensure that our WMPI products take full advantage of the AMD Opteron Processor. |
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Landmark Graphics | |
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Landmark Graphics is a leading provider of software and services for the upstream oil and gas industry. The company's VIP(tm) product line - Landmark's reservoir simulation technology suite - provides complete pre-processing, simulation and post-processing workflows to engineers and asset teams.
Integrated on the VIP(tm) software suite, the Parallel-VIP product - considered the most scalable parallel simulator on the market today for black-oil simulation - uses PaTENT MPI 4.0 middleware embedded to deliver high-performance parallel execution results. |
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ASPEED Software Corporation | |
| ASPEED Software Corporation is a privately held, venture funded
software company based in the heart of New York City with development centres
in New York and London. ASPEED's value proposition is to enable clients with
computationally intensive applications to significantly improve the response
time and reduce the run times. Using ASPEED's ACCELLERANT software enables
its users to quickly adapt their existing application to use less expensive
and newer hardware technologies in multi-processor, cluster and grid
configurations. ACCELLERANT's algorithm-aware API enables the distribution
of applications thought by many as "undistributable" improving
competitiveness, productivity, accuracy of the analysis and to participate in
company cluster and grid activity. ASPEED's ACCELLERANT includes WMX |
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Century Dynamics, Ltd | |
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Century Dynamics is an international developer and supplier of engineering and scientific simulation software. The company provides solutions for a wide spectrum of industries including aerospace, automotive, defense, marine, offshore, petrochemical and power. Century Dynamics operates internationally throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
Century Dynamics AUTODYN-3D, is a fully integrated engineering analysis program for solving problems in areas such as solid, fluid and gas dynamics, large strains, large deformations, etc.. Critical Software is working close with Century Dynamics providing full integration of AutoDyn and WMPI 1.5. |
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