Posted by Kenneth Farmer, Monday January 10 2005 @ 12:22PM EST
ComputerWeekly: Intel and SGI have opened the world’s first Intel and SGI Parallel Application Centre, providing an environment for organisations, developers and ISVs to optimise applications for the Intel Itanium2 processor-based SGI Altix platform.
The aim of the centre is to reduce software development time and cost and it is designed to deliver a fully managed platform and all the tools required for organisations to port, optimise, validate and evaluate application scalability and performance on the 32-way Intel Itanium 2 processor-based SGI Altix 3000 system.
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