OptimaNumerics Ltd, the leading provider of high performance numerical software, today announces a sales and partnership agreement with Tridigonal S.A.R.L.

Tridigonal will address the High Performance Computing market in France for OptimaNumerics. Tridiagonal is led by Gilles Deghilage, an HPC expert and entrepreneur with long and successful track record of major sales and marketing positions at companies including Fujitsu Systems Europe, Bull, Meiosys, Sun, and SGI.

"Tridiagonal combines HPC domain expertise with in depth knowledge and customer contacts in the French HPC market. This is the combination to be successful.” comments Dr Ulrich Meier, VP of Sales at OptimaNumerics. "Gilles Deghilage and his team at Tridigonal has the skills to masterfully address this emerging market in the times of technology changes. Libraries are a transparent and easy to answer for developers and users to achieve maximum performance with current and future multi-core processors designs.”

“Libraries are building blocks in the HPC software environment that will gain importance as scalability will become the key to performance increase.” says Gilles Deghilage, Managing Director of Tridiagonal. “OptimaNumerics is the best of breed with respect to performance, parallel and problem size scalability and cross platform availability. HPC customers will appreciate the benefits of OptimaNumerics Libraries.”

OptimaNumerics Libraries, with linear algebra, parallel linear algebra and parallel random number generators modules, provide high performance versions of LAPACK, ScaLAPACK, PETSc, SuperLU, PLFG and SPRNG libraries.

OptimaNumerics' innovative technologies have consistently delivered superior performance and portability across a wide range of platforms including: the Intel Xeon, Intel Itanium 2, AMD Opteron, IBM POWER and PowerPC processor families, plus platforms from other vendors, running Linux, UNIX, HP-UX, Solaris 10 and Microsoft Windows CCS.