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Visual Numerics, Inc., celebrating 36 years of producing advanced numerical analysis and visualization software, announced today that the IMSL C Numerical Library version 6.0 and IMSL Fortran Numerical Library version 5.0 have been released for Fujitsu PRIMEQUEST 500 series servers for high performance computing. Together, the IMSL Numerical Libraries will leverage Fujitsu’s high performance servers and development tools to provide an integrated, powerful development environment for organizations to solve sophisticated computational and data-intensive problems. For over 15 years, Visual Numerics’ IMSL numerical libraries have been available on Fujitsu’s high performance systems, from the original Vector Parallel Processor (VPP) series supercomputers to the SPARC-based PRIMEPOWER servers. To date, Visual Numerics provides the only numerical libraries that are compatible with the Fujitsu PRIMEQUEST server line, which delivers in-depth performance and scalability on Windows and Linux environments. The PRIMEQUEST 500 series scales up to 32 Dual-Core Intel Itanium 2 Processors. By combining the highest-standard mathematical and statistical libraries and development tools with PRIMEQUEST, Visual Numerics and Fujitsu bring the most comprehensive high performance computing solutions to Fujitsu customers and application developers worldwide. “Our customers rely on Fujitsu’s servers to give them industrial strength high performance solutions for their most demanding application environments,” said Dr. Motoi Okuda, General Manager of Computational Science and Engineering Solution Center, Fujitsu Limited. “By offering Visual Numerics’ Numerical Libraries with PRIMEQUEST, we’re now providing application developers with world-class C and Fortran numerical libraries to help them solve increasingly complex numerical problems quickly and more efficiently.” “As more worldwide commercial enterprises and banks begin developing their own high-performance applications, they’ll need a high-performance computing platform with the right development tools,” said Phil Fraher, president and CEO of Visual Numerics. “With Fujitsu, we’re committed to providing supercomputing customers with the highest standard numerical libraries and analysis tools available for the next 15 years and beyond.”