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| Interactive Supercomputing's Star-P technical Computing Software Interactive Supercomputing has announced a new version of its Star-P technical computing software designed to make high performance computing more economical and accessible for a wider range of technical computing users. The new version now runs on lower-cost AMD Opteron-based systems, which enables users who previously didn't have the budgets and programming knowledge, to tap the power of parallel computing clusters to solve their growing scientific and engineering problems. Star-P is the world's first interactive parallel computing platform. It allows scientists, engineers and other researchers to code algorithms and models on their desktops using familiar mathematical software packages such as MathWorks' MATLAB, and run them instantly and interactively on parallel servers. Star-P eliminates the need to re-program the applications in C, FORTRAN or MPI languages to run on parallel computers, which typically takes months to years to complete for complex and computationally intensive problems. The new Star-P version will be available from SGI's Professional Services team and distribution partners. For high-end parallel processing needs, Star-P also runs on Itanium-based SGI Altix servers supporting from one to 512 processors, 24 terabytes of memory, and running 64-bit Linux. Star-P automatically connects desktop applications to Opteron-based servers and parallelizes the application code on the fly, enabling users to scale their applications across any multi-processor system or parallel cluster in real time. Using Star-P they can tackle much larger problems on their desktops than ever before possible, while arriving at a solution in a fraction of the time. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Computing News :: home page |