Newsgroups: comp.parallel From: N. Branan Subject: APR News Release Organization: Intel Supercomputer Systems Division NEWS RELEASE Applied Parallel Research 1723 Professional Drive Sacramento, CA 95825 USA Phone: 01-916-481-9891 Fax: 01-916-481-7924 E-Mail: levesque@apri.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Applied Parallel Research is pleased to announce the signing of a distribution agreement with Intel's Supercomputer Systems Division for the FORGE family of Fortran parallelization products. Placerville, California, USA, December 9, 1993 -- Applied Parallel Research, Inc. (APR), and Intel's Supercomputer Systems Division (SSD) have signed an agreement whereby Intel SSD will offer APR's FORGE family of distributed memory Fortran parallelization tools for the Intel Paragon* and iPSC/860 supercomputers. Under this agreement APR's products FORGE Explorer, FORGE Distributed Memory Parallelizer (DMP), the FORGE HPF pre-compiler (xHPF) and the newly announced FORGE Magic/DM automatic parallelization system will be available from Intel SSD. Robert Enk, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for APR, stated, "We are extremely pleased that Intel SSD has chosen to offer APR's products in conjunction with their line of supercomputer systems. Given Intel SSD's significant customer base and market presence, this agreement greatly enhances our ability to gain wide exposure and acceptance of our products. We feel that these tools will significantly enhance a programmer's ability to convert and develop applications for the Paragon and iPSC/860 systems." FORGE Explorer is a Motif based Fortran source code browser which provides extensive interprocedural control flow and variable usage information as well as context sensitive query functions. FORGE DMP and APR's newly announced FORGE Magic/DM are fully compatible interactive and batch parallelization tools. Magic/DM is the first production quality automatic parallelization tool available for distributed memory architectures. Another industry first is APR's HPF Compilation System - xHPF. The xHPF system currently supports the subset of Fortran 90 and HPF directives recommended for early implementation by the High Performance Fortran Forum. This product has also been enhanced to provide for automatic parallelization of an application and the optional generation of a source code file which has been converted from Fortran 77 to the subset of Fortran 90 and HPF Directives defined in the HPFF subset. Dr. Wilfred R. Pinfold, Director of Sales Support for Intel SSD, said, "APR's FORGE family of products will provide users of Intel's Paragon and iPSC/860 systems with the most advanced set of Fortran conversion and development tools available today. The FORGE products give users the ability to effectively distribute their application across multiple processors, and when used in conjunction with the Paragon message passing environment, allows users to take advantage of the powerful Paragon architecture." Intel's Supercomputer Systems Division has an installed base of over 400 systems, and, according to International Data Corp., leads all other vendors with a 38% share of the parallel supercomputer segment of the high performance computing market. Intel Supercomputers combine the companyUs advanced microprocessors with Intel's interconnect technology (Scalable Parallel Processing) and industry standard OSF/1AD MK operating system to deliver affordable, scalable systems. Intel supercomputers are used throughout the world for scientific, industrial and academic applications Intel Corporation, the world's largest chip maker, is an international manufacturer of microcomputer components, modules and systems. Applied Parallel Research provides leading edge Fortran programming tools and training to users of todayUs advanced parallel processing systems. iPSC is a registered trademark and Paragon is a trademark of Intel Corporation. FORGE is a registered trademark of Applied Parallel Research, Inc.