PathScale Announces Trade-Up Program; Invites Users of
Portland Group's PGI® Compilers to Upgrade to the Higher Performance
PathScale EKOPath™ Compiler Suite
-- Attractive Incentives Offered for PGI Users to Switch to PathScale's
Award-Winning 64-Bit Linux® Compilers for FORTRAN, C and C++ --
Mountain View, CA — April 4, 2005 —
PathScale, developer of innovative software and hardware solutions to
accelerate the performance and efficiency of Linux clusters, has announced a
special Trade-Up program that enables users of PGI® compilers for FORTRAN,
C, and C++ to easily upgrade to the higher performance PathScale EKOPath
Compiler Suite, well-known as the world's fastest 64-bit x86 compilers for
Linux®.
Benchmarks and real applications at a number of high performance computing
(HPC) sites show that PathScale compilers out-perform PGI compilers, leading
hundreds of HPC customers to select PathScale over PGI. All leading HPC
suppliers including Sun Microsystems, IBM, HP, Fujitsu-Siemens and AMD have
chosen to run SPEC® performance benchmark tests on their AMD
Opteron™-processor based Linux systems exclusively with PathScale's compilers.
For users who want to optimize the performance of their AMD64- and Intel™
EM64T-based HPC applications, PathScale compilers are the clear choice.
Last week, The Portland Group announced Release 6.0 of PGI®
Workstation, a suite of FORTRAN, C, and C++ compilers and development tools.
It is reported that nearly all current users of PGI compilers will be required
to pay some additional fee or purchase new licenses to migrate to PGI Release
6.0. In addition, current PGI users will have to recompile their libraries,
their applications and, potentially, recreate some of their object files in
order to move to the new version of the PGI compiler, making the migration to
PGI Release 6.0 non-trivial.
"When it comes time to write a check for a new compiler release and
perform the migration work, we believe many users should and will prefer to
upgrade to the proven performance of PathScale EKO compilers," said Art
Goldberg, Chief Operating Officer for PathScale. "Now is an ideal time to
download the 30-day free trial of the latest PathScale Compiler Suite for
evaluation. We are confident that developers of 64-bit Linux applications will
see both performance and support advantages when they start working with
PathScale. With the added financial incentives we're announcing today,
upgrading from PGI to PathScale is more beneficial than ever."
All PathScale subscribers, even those downloading the free trial version,
receive technical support directly from PathScale, widely recognized for
superior user support. Linux developers can make their own comparison of PGI
versus PathScale by downloading the free 30-day trial version of the PathScale
compiler suite from
www.pathscale.com/trial.php.
All paid PathScale subscribers receive major upgrades for free.
The terms of the PGI to PathScale Trade-Up Program include:
- All current subscribers to PGI version 5.x compilers new to PathScale are
eligible to upgrade to PathScale EKOPath via this program.
- Current PGI customers can receive 20 percent off any order for PathScale
compilers on a minimum of two-user licenses or a subscription period of two
years or more.
- Trade-up orders must be placed with PathScale or its Authorized Resellers
no later than June 30, 2005.
Complete details on the Trade-Up Program are posted at
www.pathscale.com/tradeup.html.
The PathScale EKOPath compiler suite was recently voted "Supercomputing
Product of the Year" in an online readers poll conducted by Supercomputing
Online and was honored with the Reader's Choice Award for "Greatest Price
Performance in a Software Application" presented by the publishers of
HPCwire.
The latest release of the PathScale EKOPath Compiler Suite provides a
number of performance improvements, including enhancements that allow users to
leverage OpenMP Version 2.0 to parallelize applications on multi-processor
nodes. Programmers can standardize on PathScale compilers for all their 64-
and 32-bit x86 Linux computing needs on AMD and Intel platforms. In addition,
EKOPath compilers now support a PathScale-optimized ACML 2.5 library (AMD Core
Math Library) designed for use by a wide range of software developers to
obtain the highest math function performance from applications running on AMD
platforms.
About PathScale
Based in Mountain View, 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. For more details, visit
www.pathscale.com, send email to
sales@pathscale.com or telephone
1-650-934-8100.
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Evaluation Corporation. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.
Portland Group and PGI are trademarks or registered trademarks of Portland
Group, Inc. Pathscale, the Pathscale logo and EKOPath are trademarks of
Pathscale, Inc. All other product names mentioned are trademarks of their
respective owners.
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