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PathScale, developer of innovative software and hardware solutions to accelerate the performance and efficiency of Linux clusters, announces Version 2.0 of its PathScale EKOPath Compiler Suite. This new release of the industry-leading PathScale compilers adds a number of performance enhancing features and capabilities including: support for OpenMP, inclusion of the AMD Core Math Library, support for Intel's EM64T and a revolutionary new serial debugger. The announcement is being made at the SC2004 SuperComputing Conference in Pittsburgh. The superior performance of EKOPath 2.0 distinguishes it from its competition. EKOPath 2.0 supports OpenMP Version 2.0, the latest industry- standard Application Program Interface (API) which allows programmers to parallelize applications on a multi-processor node. EKOPath 2.0 also includes a PathScale-optimized ACML 2.5 library (AMD Core Math Library). ACML 2.5 is designed for use by a wide range of software developers to obtain the highest math function performance from applications running on AMD platforms. EKOPath 2.0 extends its performance leadership beyond AMD64 Linux applications with support for the Intel EM64T. This enables programmers to standardize on a single compiler for all 32- and 64-bit computing applications. EKOPath 2.0 also includes PathDB, a new serial debugger that is the only "backwards stepping" debugger in the industry. Unlike gdb, the PathScale debugger supports Fortran 77/95, as well as C and C++. The PathScale debugger, command compatible with gdb, comes standard with the Pathscale EKOPath Compiler Suite. Industry Recognition There has been strong industry-wide adoption of the EKOPath Compiler Suite. With its clear performance advantages and superior correctness, EKOPath has become the application benchmark compiler of choice. Companies such as AMD, HP, IBM, Linux Networx and Sun Microsystems routinely use PathScale EKOPath compilers to showcase the performance gains that can be achieved with their AMD Opteron-based systems. "We're very grateful to the HPC user community for this recognition," said Scott Metcalf, CEO of PathScale. "We appreciate the continued support of the Linux developer community and so many leading computer systems vendors. Version 2.0 of the PathScale compilers continues our commitment to providing industry leading performance and enhanced features to accelerate the migration to 64-bit clustered computing." Availability The EKOPath Compiler Suite Version 2.0 will be available in December 2004, with a Beta release during the week of November 15th. PathScale products are available through 25 leading Linux cluster solution providers in North America, Europe and Asia participating in the PathScale FastPath reseller program described at http://www.pathscale.com/authorized_resellers.html or from PathScale's Web site at http://www.pathscale.com.