csWMPI

Partners

R&D Labs

• UC-DEI - University of Coimbra, Dept. of Computer Science

  

  csWMPI 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 csWMPI and add even more MPI standard compliance, improve performance, robustness, reliability and scalability.

Technology Partners

• Microsoft Corporation

  

  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.

• 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 csWMPI 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.

• 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.

• QLogic

  

  QLogic (NASDAQ: QLGC) is a global leader and technology innovator in high performance networking, including adapters, switches and ASICs. Leading OEMs and channel partners worldwide rely on QLogic products for their data, storage and server networking solutions. QLogic is a NASDAQ Global Select company and is included in the S&P 500.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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 csWMPI products fully integrate with Intel Trace Collector and Analyser to ensure that parallel code developed to run using csWMPI can be tuned for optimum performance.

• 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 realises the importance of supporting the increased computing capabilities that AMD64 bit technology offers and consequently have committed development effort to ensure that our csWMPI products take full advantage of the AMD Opteron Processor.

OEMs

• Landmark Graphics

  

  Landmark Graphics is a division of Halliburton specializing in E&P software and consulting.

  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.

• ANSYS AUTODYN

  

  ANSYS develops, markets, and supports engineering simulation software used to predict how product designs will operate and how manufacturing processes will behave in real-world environments.

  ANSYS AUTODYN is a versatile explicit analysis tool for modeling the nonlinear dynamics of solids, fluids, gas and their interaction. ANSYS AUTODYN, 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 ANSYS providing full integration of AutoDyn and csWMPI.