WORLD'S FIRST INTEL AND SGI PARALLEL APPLICATION CENTER LAUNCHED TO DRIVE HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING --- TheThirdMedia Hardware

[title]WORLD'S FIRST INTEL AND SGI PARALLEL APPLICATION CENTER LAUNCHED TO DRIVE HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING[/title]
SWINDON, UK, 3rd December 2004: Intel and SGI today announced the opening of the world's first Intel and SGI Parallel Application Center, providing a leading-edge environment for organisations, developers and ISVs to optimise applications for the Intel?Itanium?2 processor-based SGI?Altix?platform, reducing software development time and cost. The Parallel Application Center, located in Swindon, UK, delivers a fully managed platform and all the tools required for organisations to port, optimise, validate and evaluate application scalability and performance on the 32-way Intel Itanium 2 processor-based SGI Altix 3000 system.

The Parallel Application Center provides a state-of-the-art development and testing facility for developers and ISVs worldwide. One- to two-week exclusive on-site access to the SGI Altix 3000 system is available for porting software, as well as access remotely through direct connection over a virtual private network. In addition to enhancing existing technical and scientific applications for 64-bit computing, ISVs and developers can use the center's system to showcase their optimised enterprise applications to customers. By combining the power of high-performance computing with visualisation, developers and users can test new workflows for future needs and ever larger data sets in this environment.

?Intel is committed in bringing advanced technologies and industry leadership to address the most demanding computational challenges. The Parallel Application Center will accelerate the pace of innovation for high-performance computing across leading enterprise and advanced academic environments,?said Richard Wirt, Intel Senior Fellow and General Manager, Software and Solutions Group. ?We are delighted to be working with SGI in providing application developers of all types access to the Parallel Application Center to enable organizations to continually benefit from the technological advancement of the Intel Itanium 2 processor and the SGI Altix platform.?br />
?As a leading VLDB vendor, Objectivity was very pleased to get access to the excellent system and staff resources of the Intel?SGI Parallel Application Center,?said Brian Clark, VP Technical Services, Objectivity, Inc. ?We were able to prove our scalability and performance claims quickly on the large SGI Altix system there. The project was the first iteration of re-running an earlier UNIX* benchmark on the standards-based and high-performance Altix platform so we can show how the breakthrough technologies of Objectivity, Linux*, Intel and SGI together can meet the rapidly growing demand for managing very large and complex data.?br />
The Parallel Application Center provides access to the SGI Altix 3000 supercomputer running optimised 64-bit Linux, powered by 32 Intel Itanium 2 processors 1.5-GHz/ 6M-Level 3 cache, with 128-GB main memory and 2.5-Terabytes disk space. Development tools available include OpenMP?open platform shared-memory API, Intel?Software Development Products, SGI's MPI library and NUMA tools, and Intel?MPI library. Organisations can request exclusive Internet access or shared Internet access, with exclusive Internet access available for one to five days.
?SGI is dedicated to addressing the next class of challenges for scientific, engineering and creative users who are facing a dramatic explosion of data coming from a growing number of sources,?said Dave Parry, senior vice president and general manager, Server and Platform Group, SGI. ?The Parallel Application Center shares a similar mission, and with Intel we look forward to further pushing the evolution of 64-bit Linux, Intel Itanium 2 processors, and SGI systems as the world's leading platforms for high-performance computing.?br />
?ABAQUS customers continue to demand the utmost in computing performance for their finite element analyses, in areas such as automotive durability assessment, cell phone and other consumer products drop testing, and manufacturing simulation,?commented Ken Short, Vice President of Marketing at ABAQUS, Inc. ?The Parallel Application center is a technically rich and cost effective solution that has been a tremendous asset for our developers in continuing to advance the parallel performance of ABAQUS.?br />
?We are excited to have verified the linear scalability of P*TIME, our memory-centric relational database, on the 32-way Intel Itanium 2 processor-based SGI Altix system with its large global shared memory at the Intel?SGI Parallel Application Center,?said Dr. Sang Cha, Chief Executive Officer, Transact In Memory, Inc. ?PAC sign-up was simple, support was first-rate, and we were able to complete our initial proof point project in three days and accelerate our time to market.?br />



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