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MSTI's Message-Passing Middleware Complies with Standards

MPI Software Technology Inc. (MSTI) designs middleware for companies that want to control their cost of ownership and maximize the return on their investment by solving problems important to their mission, rather than tangling with free but costly-to-own software that has no guaranteed support path, performance, or compliance.

MSTI's Message Passing Interface (MPI) middleware defines how data is transferred among multiple processors working together on related programs. The company's message-passing products are based on de facto standards developed and accepted by the organizations they serve.

MSTI, Starkville, Miss., recently released Version 1.6.3 of MPI/Pro for NT/2000 and Linux, which is fully compliant with the MPI Forum's 1.2 standard.

The company also produces Cluster Controller, a job scheduler and resource management tool for NT/2000. MSTI'S most recent addition to its product line, VSI/Pro, is a math library compliant with the emerging VSIPL (vector, signal, and image processing library) standard. VSI/Pro is available for LynxOS for G3 and Altivec/G4 and VxWorks for G3. Altivec/G4 support will soon follow for the VxWorks operating system.

MSTI sells its products worldwide. Users include the U.S. Department of Energy labs (Sandia, Argone), Compaq Computer, Dell Computer, General Electric, Schlumberger, Northrup-Grumman, Cornell University, and Mississippi State University. MSTI's OEM customers include Paralogic Software, JPA Electronic Supply, Ansys, Radstone, and Thales (formerly CETIA, a subsidiary of Thomson Marconi). The company's networking partners are Giganet (recently acquired by Emulex), Compaq, and Myricom. MSTI began in August 1996 as a spin-off of research done at Mississippi State by Dr. Anthony Skjellum.

MSTI has 21 full-time employees. Most of them work on high-performance implementations of MPI middleware, as well as on the new MPI/RT.

For more information, visit www.mpi-softtech.com.

By Supplement Staff

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