PathScale and Absoft release Software Development Kit for AMD Opteron Clusters

New High Performance Computing Software Development Kit for AMD Opteron™ Clusters 
Includes Compilers and Tools from PathScale and Absoft 

-- Combined Technologies Offer the Overall Most Cost-Effective and Highest-Performing 
Suite of Solutions Available for Creating Applications for the AMD64 Environment 
-- 

PathScale, Inc. and Absoft Corporation have announced general availability of 
Absoft's new High Performance Computing Software Development Kit (HPC SDK) optimized 
for clusters based on AMD's (NYSE: AMD) 32- and 64-bit AMD Opteron™ processors 
running Linux and featuring top-performing Fortran and EKOPath C++ compilers 
from PathScale. 

The Absoft HPC SDK is a complete solution for software developers to compile, 
run, debug, and optimize high-performance applications.  It includes Fortran 
and C/C++ compilers from both PathScale and Absoft, debuggers, math libraries, 
and other supporting development tools.  The SDK is configured to provide the 
simplest installation and the highest performance on AMD Opteron processor-based 
clusters. It is the only commercially available HPC SDK that combines tools from 
different vendors to provide customers with the very best solution available.

"Over the years we have seen the number and variety of parallel programming environment 
products change, but few have delivered on the promise of end-user productivity 
as does the Absoft HPC SDK for Linux clusters." said George Delic, Ph.D., CEO, 
HiPERiSM Consulting, LLC, an early reseller for Absoft's new line of HPC SDKs.

 The HPC SDK includes the industry's leading software tools optimized for the 
AMD Opteron and is preconfigured for the easiest possible installation. Customers 
can begin using the HPC SDK to leverage their existing hardware and software 
investments in just 3 easy mouse clicks. Absoft Corporation is the single point 
of contact to simplify all pre-sale, post-sale and technical support questions 
related to the HPC SDK.

"Absoft and PathScale have collaborated to develop the HPC industry's first complete 
set of commercial software development tools specifically designed for AMD Opteron 
processors," said PathScale CEO Scott Metcalf.  "The PathScale EKOPath compilers 
included with the SDK have established themselves as the de facto standard for 
creating the fastest executable applications available on AMD64. Now developers 
can use the overall most cost-effective and highest-performing suite of solutions 
available for creating applications for the AMD64 environment."

The HPC SDK components include PathScale's Fortran and C/C++ compilers which 
generate the industry's fastest executable code for AMD Opteron processors, Absoft's 
Fortran 95 compilers for multi-platform compatibility, the Absoft Fx2 debugger 
for improved F95/C/C++ debugging, Absoft's Common Installer for quick and easy 
installation, the Absoft Modules environment for 32-bit and 64-bit software control, 
Absoft's Common License Manager, MPICH2, LAM/MPI, Absoft Examples and Benchmarks, 
AMD's Common Math Library support and other numerical libraries, and 12 months 
free continuing support. Versions are available for SLES9 or RHEL4. Enhanced 
versions which incorporate additional third party tools such as performance profilers, 
additional numerical libraries, and parallel debuggers are under consideration.

About Absoft 
Celebrating 25 years of profitably providing software solutions, Absoft Corporation 
(Rochester Hills, Michigan) is a recognized leader in software development tools 
and solution bundles. Absoft provides Fortran and C/C++ compilers, debuggers, 
and related libraries and development tools to scientists and engineers worldwide 
who use Microsoft Windows, Apple OS X, and various Linux distributions on workstations 
and clusters built around IA32 / x86, x64, and POWER® processors, through longstanding 
relationships with AMD, Apple, IBM, Intel, and Microsoft, among others. Absoft 
leads the High Performance Computing sector with its recently announced HPC Software 
Development Kits for growing variety of cluster configurations. Absoft products 
are distributed worldwide. For more information, please contact Jeff Livesay 
at (248) 853-0050 or jal@absoft.com or visit www.absoft.com.

About PathScale
Based in Mountain View, California, PathScale develops innovative software and 
hardware technologies that substantially increase the performance and efficiency 
of Linux clusters, the next significant wave in high-end computing. Applications 
that benefit from PathScale's technologies include seismic processing, complex 
physical modeling, EDA simulation, molecular modeling, biosciences, econometric 
modeling, computational chemistry, computational fluid dynamics, finite element 
analysis, weather modeling, resource optimization, decision support and data 
mining. PathScale's investors include Adams Street Partners, Charles River Ventures, 
Enterprise Partners Venture Capital, CMEA Ventures, ChevronTexaco Technology 
Ventures and the Dow Employees Pension Plan. For more details, visit www.pathscale.com, 
send email to sales@pathscale.com or telephone 1-650-934-8100.