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10 Good Reasons to buy csWMPI II

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Professional Technical Support

Critical has a skilled and experienced Technical Support Team ready to answer any problems that may arise in your mission-critical cluster with low turnaround response times. Support is provided via email or telephone in less than 3 working days.

Performance

Performance tests show that due to the highly optimized, non-polling, internally multi-threaded nature of csWMPI II, its performance when running real world applications is over 40% faster than other MPI implementations, e.g. versus MPICH on Windows.

Reliability

Critical Software invested more than two years of R&D effort to build csWMPI II from scratch to be an industry-strength implementation for mission and business-critical applications. It was built with the experience gained from developing csWMPI and Patent MPI to guarantee unequalled reliability.

Thread Safety

csWMPI II is a full thread safe implementation so it is OpenMP™ ready. This allows you to develop code to take full advantage of the benefits of the combined shared and distributed memory architecture of today's SMP clusters. Performance gains of up to 30% can be obtained using this facility.

Full MPI-2 standard compliance

csWMPI II is a full-featured MPI-2 implementation, including:

• Dynamic process creation;
• Parallel I/O;
• Support of one sided communications;
• Three types of synchronization;
• Support for extended collective operations;
• Asynchronous completion notification;
• C++ and Fortran bindings.
• Additionally, csWMPI II supports multiple communications devices simultaneously (e.g. TCP and shared memory).

Support for 3rd-party tools (debugger and profiler)

Due to the complexity of HPC environments, availability and support of good debuggers and profilers to help you develop your parallel application is a necessity, csWMPI II supports the popular DDT debugger and the Intel Cluster Tools (formerly marketed as Vampir).

Large platform support

csWMPI II was the first MPI-2 standard implementation for both Windows and Linux operating systems worldwide. Platform support includes Windows NT, 2000, XP, Server 2003 and a large range of Linux-distributions such as, Red Hat, SuSe, Mandrake, Debian, Gentoo, SlackWare and Turbo Linux. As well as 32 bit platforms, csWMPI II also supports the 64-bit AMD Opteron processor.

Commitment for continuous product evolution

Critical is committed to continuously develop its middleware products in order to meet evolving market needs. The fact that Critical was the first and only provider of an MPI-2 implementation for both Windows and Linux clearly demonstrates this.

Integration and Embedded support (OEMs)

When you need to parallelise your code and integrate it smoothly with csWMPI II, Critical professional support helps you deal with MPI technology to take maximum advantage of the performance benefits associated with using our middleware. Critical also provides appropriate OEM licensing schemes, which facilitate the deployment and integration of csWMPI II with OEM solutions.

Scalability

csWMPI II currently scales up to more than a thousand (1000) processors without any architectural limitation.

For information about support for other systems and development environments, please contact us.