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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / JULY 14, 2003; VOL. 2 NO. 28
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Systems/Enterprise:
"GET A GRANT" PROGRAM FOR GRID
LIFE SCIENCES RESEARCHERS
Engineered Intelligence Corporation (EI) has announced a new program, "Get
a
Grant with EI" -- whereby EI works on grant proposals and projects with
researchers and scientists in Life Sciences who want to convert serial
applications in Fortran, C or C++ to parallel codes, or want to develop new
applications with parallel performance and harness the power of parallel
computers, grids and clusters. EI offers technical and business expertise to
develop proposals and implement project plans for transforming these
applications. Working with researchers to analyze Life Sciences applications
for their ability to be parallelized and the performance improvements that can
be expected, EI and its partners will jointly develop grant proposals and
pursue development of parallel Life Sciences applications.
"As the Life Sciences industry moves to the next generation of high
performance computing, applications need to be updated to take advantage of
parallel execution for faster and more accurate results," said Richard Casey,
Ph.D., Founder and CTO of RMC Software. "Working with EI gives companies a
basis for updating old applications, creating new ones, and building a
research partnership with strong commercial support."
The new program uses EI's CxC2, a parallelization framework for
transforming
scientific and engineering applications written in FORTRAN, C or C++ into
parallelized versions that run effectively on high-performance supercomputers,
grids and clusters. In addition, CxC2 offers the ability to integrate existing
C, C++ and FORTRAN libraries into CxC2 programs. The CxC2 solution
significantly lowers overall time and costs of development; and enables a
parallel computing paradigm scalable to millions of processors to provide the
best platform for highly parallel applications. CxC2 has been used to
parallelize equation solvers used in molecule simulations for biochemistry and
in image-processing algorithms
"This new 'Get A Grant' program allows researchers to move their
applications
to the next generation computing platforms and realize the benefits of
parallel computing," EI's CEO, Matt Oberdorfer, reports. "By partnering with
EI, researchers can move from serial to parallel computing and keep their
investment in current codes -- but make their algorithms more effective and
gain processing and computation capability with low-cost, high-performance
hardware platforms. EI brings the parallel power of supercomputers to the
desktop of every engineer and provides a standard for parallel computing in
heterogeneous environments."
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