Star-P delivers parallel performance across SGI machines as an alternative paradigm to MPI and/or OpenMP

Star-P allows users performing scientific, engineering or analytical computation on array or matrix-based data to perform these computations on all SGI® Altix®, SGI® Altix® XE and SGI® Altix® ICE systems.

Today, Star-P delivers to users of MATLAB® from The Mathworks and NumPy (Numeric Python) the ability to:

• Transform serial applications for parallel deployment
• Develop and deploy parallel applications and algorithms from scratch

The transformation or development of parallel applications is made possible by Star-P's "command set" and run-time system that extend these very high level languages (VHLL's) to SGI's parallel systems. Star-P addresses the key parallel programming challenges that face engineers, scientists and analysts (a.k.a. domain experts) that should be able focus on the algorithm and not the computer:

• Productivity - development time
• Ease of use - abstraction of low level hardware details from development
• Performance - speed up, scalability, for larger data, for more complex algorithms
• Deployable - reliable, accurate and usable by others

The Star-P open software platform delivers revolutionary results to domain experts by enabling them to transparently use high performance computing resources, through the familiar desktop tools and languages they know best.

Additional Information

• Star-P Interactive Tour - view demo
• Customer Testimonials
• Application Examples
• White Papers
• Success Story: SGI at AFRL

How to Buy
Interactive Supercomputing Star-P is available for sale from SGI. Please contact your SGI sales representative for more information.