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EI Announces MPI-XF Support For AMD Opteron Processors

Engineered Intelligence (EI) released MPI-XF version 1.2, a high performance solution for the industry standard Message Passing Interface (MPI), and announced validation for the AMD Opteron processor platform. AMD64 with Direct Connect Architecture, combined with the technology in MPI-XF (Message Passing Interface -- Extremely Fast), can deliver unprecedented performance for programmers who use message passing, without requiring specialized networking hardware.

"The AMD Opteron processor offers high-performance 32- and 64-bit computing, enabling more users to easily move their applications forward to parallel 64-bit computing," said Matt Oberdorfer, president and CEO of Engineered Intelligence. "By working cooperatively with groundbreaking products like the AMD Opteron processor, we continue to deliver parallel computing solutions that are powered by industry leaders like AMD."

"The AMD Opteron processor, along with EI's products, can offer scientific and engineering customers an excellent solution to optimize their applications," said Pat Patla, director of the Server/Workstation Business Segment of AMD's Microprocessor Business Unit. "EI has innovative solutions for parallel computing and we support a commitment to bring 64-bit support to its customers."

MPI-XF combines the utility of Message Passing Interface with powerful communication technology derived from EI's patented Connected Memory Architecture (CMA) and EXtremely Fast Compression (XFC). EI's certification program, including a third party driver development kit, ensures compatibility with hardware components and systems, and allows developers who have invested time and effort in MPI programming to gain extreme performance for their applications. MPI-XF is a fully supported, platform-independent solution and EI offers consulting services to assist customers in application migration, tuning and optimization. MPI-XF is immediately available on platforms running Microsoft Windows and Linux, with several selected UNIX systems in development, at a list price of $100 per processor.