SOURCE: Interactive Supercomputing

March 25, 2008 09:00 ET

Interactive Supercomputing Launches Parallel Computing Blog: Parallel Lounge

WALTHAM, MA--(Marketwire - March 25, 2008) - Interactive Supercomputing Inc. today launched a multi-author blog to provide scientists, engineers and analysts new insights on how to solve problems faster with high performance computing (HPC).

The new Parallel Lounge blog aims to be an online resource for researchers seeking the latest in parallel programming approaches and HPC applications. The blog features regular contributions on a mix of real-world case studies of leading research institutions, YouTube video interviews, parallel programming constructs, and productivity in high performance computing. Recent topics have ranged from "Performance Tuning 101: Client-Server Communications and Vectorization" to trade-offs among approaches to accelerate Python and MATLAB® applications.

Blog contributors will include, among others:

--  ISC CEO Bill Blake, who brings to the blog more than two decades of
    senior executive experience in developing high performance computing
    systems at companies such as Netezza and Compaq.
--  MIT Professor Alan Edelman, a preeminent authority on HPC and
    numerical algorithms with parallel computing experience from organizations
    such as Thinking Machines.
--  Steve Reinhardt, ISC's vice president of joint research, who works
    closely with the nation's top research organizations in finding new ways to
    make high performance computing easier, more productive and more accessible
    to technical computing users. Steve's accomplishments span the development
    of the first UNIX-based supercomputers at Cray Research Inc. to the
    pioneering of shared- and distributed-memory parallel programming
    environments.
--  Viral Shah, a member of ISC Research, who recently received his PhD at
    UC Santa Barbara in the area of parallel sparse matrix and graph
    algorithms.
    

"The HPC industry is in a critical stage of hyper-evolution, thanks to the proliferation of low-cost, standard multicore processing chips, Linux and new programming tools and techniques that make HPCs accessible to anyone," said Blake. "While our blog is obviously tied with our company, we believe anyone involved in parallel computing will find something of value from our stable of experts."

About Interactive Supercomputing

Interactive Supercomputing (ISC) launched in 2004 to commercialize Star-P, an interactive parallel computing platform. With automatic parallelization and interactive execution of existing desktop simulation applications, Star-P merges two previously distinct environments -- desktop computers and high performance servers -- into one. Based in Waltham, Mass., the privately held company markets Star-P for a range of biomedical, financial, and government laboratory research applications.

Star-P is a registered trademark of Interactive Supercomputing Inc. All other trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners.