SCIENCE

Deal focuses on enabling technologies such as climate simulation

A reseller agreement has been signed between Sinoparasoft (www.sinoparasoft.com) - a spin-out from the software division of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) – and Allinea Software (www.allinea.com).

With over with 50,000 staff faculty members, CAS is the premier postgraduate education and research institution in China. The HPC market in China is growing rapidly – thanks to investment as part of the Chinese Government’s twelfth 5 year plan to promote enabling technologies and indigenous innovation. China has around 5 national supercomputing centres and 30 regional centres, as well as numerous commercial users in Oil & Gas, climate modelling, weather forecasting, aerospace engineering and bioinformatics.   Sinoparasoft is a parallel software specialist providing consulting, training and development services as well as locally-developed software such as Job Scheduling, Oil Reservoir Simulation, weather forecasting and parallel data compression and search products for archiving.

Professor Yao, a co-founder of Sinoparasoft and one of the faculty members of the CAS Parallel Software Lab was previously technical director of the Shanghai Supercomputing Centre. He and his co-founder, Prof. Yunquan Zhang, are two of the most influential and connected HPC people in the country.  Commenting on the agreement with Allinea, Professor Yao states:

“We are dedicated to providing service and consultancy to HPC users across China.   Allinea DDT is a key component of the development toolset which we can offer the HPC user community.  Together we can help them to solve many of the grand challenges which we face, for example helping in the efforts to curing cancer, mapping the human genome, simulating earthquakes and climate modelling, combating desertification and much more.”

Inroads to the APAC region for Allinea

Mike Fish, CEO of Allinea Software, comments: “Supercomputing technology has now become a mainstream tool for high end research in all developed countries, and our products are already in use on 35 of the top 100 systems worldwide. Our debugging tools help to develop and deploy research applications that help solve the most important science and technology challenges of our age.”

“This is a hugely significant agreement for Allinea.  This agreement with Sinoparasoft marks a very important inroad for us into the Asia Pacific market, given the presence and credentials which we have already demonstrated in the US and European markets.  Allinea DDT is in use with leading supercomputer sites around the world, and our recent win at NCHC, the Taiwan National Supercomputing Center shows our growing presence in the Asia Pacific region.”