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PathScale Announces New Compilers For AMD Opteron Processors

PathScale Inc, developer of innovative software and hardware solutions to accelerate the performance and efficiency of Linux clusters, has announced the availability of its new suite of high-performance compilers for the AMD Opteron processor. The announcement was made at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in New York.

PathScale C, C++ and Fortran 90/95 compilers leverage the AMD Opteron processor's high-performance 64-bit functionality and industry-leading price/performance capability. Results on real application code and industry standard benchmarks show that the PathScale Compiler Suite offers the highest performance 64-bit compilers for AMD Opteron-based Linux servers by a margin of up to 40 percent. The company revealed that the beta version of its Compiler Suite is being distributed to initial beta users in late January. A second, broader beta customer distribution will be made during February.

"The enormous demand for the PathScale Compiler Suite has vastly exceeded our expectations and has validated our fundamental premises about the strong market need for faster, more capable Opteron compilers than those that exist in the industry today," said Len Rosenthal, vice president of marketing for PathScale. "PathScale is on plan and on time in delivering the products and capabilities we've promised our customers."

PathScale also provided LinuxWorld attendees with details of its pricing policies for C, C++ and Fortran 9X compilers, explaining that the compiler suite will be offered as an annual subscription service. Annual fees will encompass all necessary product licenses and maintenance services. Maintenance services will include all major and minor product updates as well as bug fixes, online access to PathScale's support database and professional telephone support. License quantities and volume discounts are based on the number of developers using the compiler and the total number of compile servers being deployed.