OptimaNumerics has announced a sales and partnership agreement with Joachim Papenhagen, Managing Director of New Markets Management Consulting GmbH. Joachim Papenhagen has a long successful track record of business and sales development for software companies entering the enterprise market. Before starting his management consulting firm, Joachim Papenhagen held senior sales positions in companies like Siemens, AT&T and Oracle. He will focus on cross section of High Performance Computing and Enterprise IT. "Teaming with a sales professional and entrepreneur like Joachim will greatly enlarge OptimaNumerics access to new HPC market segments," comments Ulrich Meier, VP of Sales at OptimaNumerics. "HPC is growing into the enterprise space and companies are challenged to solve more and more HPC tasks to be competitive in product design, market intelligence and risk assessment. OptimaNumerics has the tools to map these tasks efficiently to state-of-the-art IT architectures. Joachim has the ability connect OptimaNumerics to the enterprises that grow into HPC. A winning combination!" 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 Xeon EM64T and Intel Itanium 2 processor families, plus platforms from other vendors, running Linux, UNIX, HP-UX, Solaris 10 and Microsoft Windows CCS. For more information, go to its Web site or contact sales@OptimaNumerics.com.