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BestSystems, Inc. and The Portland Group, a wholly-owned subsidiary of STMicroelectronics, today announced an agreement under which BestSystems will bundle PGI Fortran, C, and C++ compilers and development tools and utilities with all of its high-performance workstations. Located in Ibaraki, Japan, BestSystems sells its leading-edge workstations to scientists and engineers running high-performance computing applications for complex modeling and simulations in weather forecasting, geophysical processing, aerodynamic simulation, and related fields. The PGI compilers and tools provide a uniformly-optimized set of industry-tested development tools for the processors powering the fastest-growing science and engineering hardware platforms. "We're very pleased to partner with PGI and ST," said Katsuya Nishi CEO of BSI. "PGI compilers and tools are among the most popular and well-respected in the industry. Including these compilers and tools with our workstation will help us offer a complete, ready-to-use solution for 32-bit and 64-bit high-performance computing here in Japan." "BestSystems is an experienced and innovative specialist with a strong record in enabling customers to take advantage of the latest technology in high-performance computing," said Douglas Miles, director of the Portland Group, Advanced Systems Technology, STMicroelectronics. "This agreement will create significant opportunities for ST and BSI to deliver proven solutions that meet the needs of the Japanese high-performance computing market." BestSystems will bundle, implement, and provide first-level support for PGI compilers and tools including the PGF77(R), PGF90(TM), PGCC(R), and PGC++(TM) compilers, the PGDBG(R) graphical parallel debugger, and the PGPROF(R) graphical parallel-performance profiler. The PGI compilers and tools are fully parallel-enabled, with support for native compilation, profiling, and debugging of OpenMP parallel, thread-parallel, or MPI-parallel distributed applications engineered for today's multi-processor workstations, servers, and clusters. The currently shipping release 5.2 versions of the PGI compilers and tools support both 32-bit and 64-bit x86 and 64-bit AMD64 Opteron(TM) processor-based systems. Most PGI products are available for both Linux and Microsoft(R) Windows(R) operating systems.