WARWICK, England -- (BUSINESS WIRE) --
In line with the initiatives of the Chinese Government's twelfth 5 year plan to promote enabling technologies and indigenous innovation, a reseller agreement has been signed between Sinoparasoft (www.sinoparasoft.com) - a spin-out from the software division of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) - and Allinea Software (www.allinea.com) - the leading supplier of software development tools for high performance computing (HPC).
China raised its profile in HPC recently by achieving the number one position in the industry's Top500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers (www.top500.org).
CAS is the premier postgraduate education and research institution in China. The HPC market in China is growing rapidly. China has around 5 national supercomputing centres and 30 regional centres, as well as numerous commercial users in Oil & Gas, climate modelling, weather forecasting, aerospace engineering and bioinformatics. Sinoparasoft is a parallel software specialist providing consulting, training and development services as well as locally-developed software.
Professor Yao, a co-founder of Sinoparasoft and one of the faculty members of the CAS Parallel Software Lab was previously technical director of the Shanghai Supercomputing Centre. He and his co-founder, Prof. Yunquan Zhang, are two of the most influential and connected HPC people in the country. Commenting on the agreement, Professor Yao states:
"We are dedicated to providing service and consultancy to HPC users across China. Allinea DDT is a key component of the development toolset which we can offer the HPC user community. Together we can help them to solve many of the grand challenges which we face, for example helping in the efforts to curing cancer, mapping the human genome, simulating earthquakes and climate modelling, combating desertification and much more."
Mike Fish, CEO of Allinea Software, comments: "This is a hugely significant agreement for Allinea, given the global and strategic importance of China's HPC projects. Super computing technology has now become a mainstream tool for high end research of this nature. Our debugging tools are helping to develop applications and assisting research to help solve these important areas of science and technology."
Qin Li, 2nd Secretary, (ICT China lead) at the British Embassy/UK Trade & Investment in Beijing, comments: "By working closely with Sinoparasoft, Allinea is contributing to China's advancement in science and technology through enabling innovation, making its world class technology available to the HPC community across China."
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