Newsgroups: comp.parallel
From: Marc Baber <marc@efn.org>
Subject: VNI to Distribute APR Parallel Software in Japan
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Date: 11 Sep 1995 15:31:14 GMT
Message-ID: <431ko2$2k2@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu>

VISUAL NUMERICS JAPAN SIGNS ON AS DISTRIBUTOR FOR APPLIED PARALLEL RESEARCH

September 1995
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TOKYO, JAPAN and SACRAMENTO, CA -- The Japanese subsidiary of Visual
Numerics, Inc. (VNI) has added APR's parallel Fortran tools to its
line-up of product offerings in Japan.  With this agreement, APR gains
a strong, well-established marketing partner whose business in Japan
grew by 39% in 1994.  VNI's other High Performance solutions include
the well-known IMSL numerical libraries available in C and Fortran on a
wide range of platforms.  The addition of APR's FORGE interactive
Fortran development tools and APR's industry-leading HPF compilation
system underscores VNI's commitment to marketing vertical solutions
and providing its customers with the best tools available.

Yasou Matsumoto, Representative President of Visual Numerics, Inc.
Japan, commented, "We are delighted to have been chosen to market APR's
software in Japan.  APR is the clear leader in High Performance Fortran
for a broad range of shared and distributed memory systems.  Visual
Numeric's marketing experience in Japan indicates that HPF and
Interactive Fortran programming tools are key software technologies as
commercial use of parallel systems becomes mainstream in Japan."

APR's President John Levesque stated that, "APR's xHPF compiler and
Visual Numerics' IMSL libraries are products that complement each other
very well-- the IMSL libraries deliver high performance for many
standard algorithms, while xHPF parallelizes the rest of the user's
Fortran application.  The IMSL libraries provide hardware-specific
optimizations that many Fortran-77 compilers miss.  xHPF's
automatic parallelization  provides unprecedented ease-of-use to
Fortran programmers using today's parallel architectures.

Visual Numerics, Inc (VNI) is a leading provider and marketer of
software solutions for business, engineering, finance, research and
education.

APR is a leading provider of software tools for Fortran program
analysis, performance measurement, parallelization, restructuring, and
dialect translation.

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