MPI Software Technology, Inc. Announces Corporate Wide License Agreement For MPI/Pro With Veritas DGC.Business Editors/Technology Writers STARKVILLE, Miss.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 22, 2002 MPI MPI - Message Passing Interface Software Technology, Inc., the leading provider of high-performance middleware products and related services, today announced the signing of a corporate wide license agreement for MPI/Pro(R) with Veritas DGC DGC Directors Guild of Canada DGC Distributed Garbage Collector DGC Dystrophin-associated Glycoprotein Complex DGC Data General Corporation DGC Dakota Gasification Company DGC Dirección General de Caminos (Guatemala) , Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : VTS See VOB and virtual tape system. VTS - A suite of test programs for Motif from OSF. ). Veritas DGC Inc. offers the oil and gas industry a comprehensive suite of integrated geophysical services designed to manage exploration risk and enhance drilling and production success worldwide. These services include seismic survey planning and design, seismic data acquisition in all environments, data processing, data visualization, data interpretation, reservoir characterization, data archiving, data management, and extensive non-exclusive seismic data library surveys worldwide. MPI/Pro provides professional message passing for high-performance, parallel cluster computing, commonly called Beowulf Systems. MPI/Pro improves the performance of clusters running applications such as CFD CFD - Computational Fluid Dynamics simulation, weather modeling, financial modeling, image processing, seismic exploration, and protein folding. MPI/Pro is based on the Message Passing Interface (communications, protocol) Message Passing Interface - A de facto standard for communication among the nodes running a parallel program on a distributed memory system. MPI is a library of routines that can be called from Fortran and programs. standard, the de facto [Latin, In fact.] In fact, in deed, actually. This phrase is used to characterize an officer, a government, a past action, or a state of affairs that must be accepted for all practical purposes, but is illegal or illegitimate. industry and academic standard for parallel programming. MPI/Pro offers increased performance, between 10-50% over other parallel middleware on a number of real-world applications. "The Corporate Wide License Agreement enables Veritas DGC to use MPI/Pro on its multi-thousand node clusters worldwide," according to Neil Catling, V.P. Software Development at Veritas DGC, Inc. "Superior performance, robustness, and service led us to choose MPI/Pro over freeware." Dr. Anthony Skjellum, CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. of MPI Software notes, "We are pleased with Veritas' Corporate-wide adoption of MPI/Pro. This validates the maturity of cluster computing in the industry, the value of MPI/Pro in production computing, as well as Veritas' production cluster computing commitment." "With MPI/Pro, Veritas DGC and other seismic modeling firms achieve huge gains in performance and productivity enhancing their use of clusters to in turn enhance their bottom line," offered Charley Jones, Jr., Marketing and Relations Manager for MPI Software Technology, Inc. About MPI Software Technology, Inc., MPI Software Technology, Inc. (MSTI MSTI Main Science and Technology Indicators MSTI Miniature Sensor Technology Integration MSTI Miniature Seeker Technology Integration MSTI Mike Scioscia's Tragic Illness (blog) MSTI Miniature Space Technology Investigation ) is the leading provider of high-performance middleware products and related services. Headquartered in Starkville, Mississippi, with offices in New England, Europe, and India, MSTI specializes in commercial grade solutions for enterprise parallel computing. MPI/Pro(R) supports the MPI (Message Passing Interface) Standard for Windows(R), Linux(R), and Mercury RACE(R). Cluster Controller(R) is a parallel job scheduler for Windows and Linux clusters. MSTI also offers message passing products and math library products for defense and scalable systems customers. MSTI also offers professional consulting and training services. For more information, please visit our web site at www.mpi-softtech.com. About Veritas DGC Veritas DGC Inc. provides seismic data acquisition, data processing, multi-client data sales, reservoir consulting and software, and exploration and development information services See Information Systems. to the petroleum industry. With an extensive global library of non-exclusive seismic data, significant computing and processing power, strategically located visualization centers, and the world's leading seismic data acquisition crews, Veritas delivers seismic information where it's needed, when it's needed. The unique Veritas consulting services and Veritas RC2 software products help customers to integrate that information with geology, petrophysics Petrophysics (petro is Latin for "rock" and physics is the study of nature) is the study of the physical and chemical properties that describe the occurrence and behavior of rocks, soils and fluids [1]. and reservoir engineering information to produce a quantitative reservoir description. The Veritas R&D effort provides both internal and external input to new applications being developed that integrate all the geo-science disciplines to identify and fully understand reservoir heterogeneity. The Company continues its focus on optimizing efficiencies and delivering superior information to its customers. With over 35 years of operating experience, Veritas is an industry leader in the application of advanced geophysical technologies. |
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