Microway’s GPU-based WhisperStation™ Now Shipping with CULA

Bundle offer brings customers state-of-the-art gpu workstations integrated with CULA, the #1 accelerated linear algebra library used by thousands worldwide.

Kingston, MA – September 14, 2011 –

EM Photonics, maker of CULAtools™, announced today a reseller partnership with Microway, an award-winning solution provider in the High Performance Computing market. This partnership enables Microway to offer CULA, a feature-rich, easy to use GPU-accelerated linear algebra package to all of its customers engaged in scientific research and development. The companies have also announced the availability of the WhisperStation-PSC plus CULA Premium Bundle offer, which starts shipping immediately.

By purchasing the WhisperStation-PSC plus CULA bundle, customers get a FREE copy of CULA R12. Microway customized WhisperStations are available with up to four NVIDIA Tesla GPUs, one or two Intel Xeon CPU(s), up to 96 GB memory, and up to four 3 TB disk drives. Additionally, customers can rely on Microway’s expert integration and technical support, plus technical support for CULA via web forums. The bundle offer is available to Microway customers in the US and Canada.

“We are excited to partner with Microway and see CULA offered with their Tesla GPU workstations and clusters,” said Eric Kelmelis, CEO of EM Photonics. “For almost 30 years, they have provided state-of-the-art, customized high performance solutions to their clients with tremendous professionalism and commitment to excellence. Their integration and technical support services enable users to add new systems quickly, which is of great value to the GPU computing community.”

“GPU-accelerated WhisperStations and clusters integrated with CULA keep Microway’s customers on the leading edge of performance. Customers can achieve significant speedups simply by replacing their existing linear algebra functionality with CULA, whether it is currently provided by a library or not” commented Stephen Fried, CTO of Microway. “We are very pleased to offer our customers CULAtools because it has such broad applicability in fields as diverse as finite element analysis, computational fluid dynamics, life sciences, and financial analysis.”

Pricing and Ordering Information:

WhisperStation-PSC plus CULA Bundle is offered starting at $4,250 with 3.2 GHz Xeon processor, 6 GB memory and one Nvidia Tesla C2075 GPU. Offer ends on December 31st. For more information see http://www.microway.com/whisperstation/whisperstation-tesla.html

About Microway, Inc.

Incorporated in 1982, Microway is a major vendor in the High Performance Computing market, designing state-of-the-art, high-end Linux clusters, servers, and data storage solutions. Users worldwide pushing the limits of technology choose us for solutions. These include universities, life sciences, financial, military, Fortune 500s, and research agencies. Microway is an Intel Channel Premier provider and Tesla Preferred Partner. Classified as a small business, woman owned and operated, Microway’s GSA Contract Number is GS-35F-0431N. For more information and a subscription to Microway’s online technical newsletter, please visit www.microway.com.

About EM Photonics

Headquartered in Newark, Delaware, EM Photonics is a recognized leader in implementing computationally intense algorithms on commodity hardware platforms. Using specialized computer architectures such as GPUs and FPGAs, EM Photonics accelerates their clients’ applications to achieve better, faster results. We offer consulting services and custom-designed tools to commercial, government, and academic organizations seeking to optimize their scientific computing, image processing, and numerical analysis applications. CULA is EM Photonics’ GPU-accelerated implementation of LAPACK – a collection of commonly used linear algebra functions used by millions of developers in the scientific and engineering community. Complete product details can be found at http://www.culatools.com

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