OptimaNumerics, leader in high performance technical and scientific computing tools, announced today that it is teaming up with Scalable Systems Pte Ltd of Singapore to launch OptimaNumerics Libraries in the Asia Pacific region.

The Scalable Systems team has been building Linux High Performance Computing Clusters since 1999, and to-date, has deployed more than a dozen clusters in local universities and R&D laboratories in Singapore.

OptimaNumerics Libraries, with linear algebra, parallel linear algebra and parallel random number generators modules, provide high performance versions of LAPACK, ScaLAPACK, SPRNG and PLFG libraries. Components of OptimaNumerics Libraries, available for platforms including Linux x86 and Linux Itanium II, have been tested and proven to deliver over 13x faster solutions.

OptimaNumerics Libraries are being integrated into Scalable Systems' cluster management suite, the Scalable Rocks Cluster Toolkit, which provides a comprehensive Web-based graphical cluster management console which makes the set-up, maintenance and administration of clusters easy and quick.

Mr Laurence Liew, CTO of Scalable Systems said, "Scalable Rocks Cluster Toolkit enables efficient issue solution, maximizes uptime and utilization of clusters, and minimizes user training, thereby further reducing total cost of ownership of a cluster."

This integration provides a synergistic advantage to both OptimaNumerics' and Scalable Systems' customers, enabling right sizing and better budgeting of of high performance computing resource, enhances usage rate of hardware investments, and completing their computational jobs faster with the high performance OptimaNumerics Libraries, thus lowering total computational cost.

Dr Kenneth Tan, CEO of OptimaNumerics said, "OptimaNumerics is delighted to team up with Scalable Systems in this crucial and fast growing Asia Pacific high performance technical and scientific computing market to market and support OptimaNumerics Libraries. Scalable Systems' expertise and professional services group is a highly valuable resource to customers in this region."