Today, Visual Numerics, Inc., a 38-year producer of advanced numerical analysis and visualization software, announced the immediate availability of version 7.0 of the IMSL C Numerical Library. This release provides improved performance in multi-core and many-core environments through the parallelization of numerous algorithms using OpenMP and greater depth of functionality via new and updated algorithms.
Recent articles and analyst reports document the strong revenue and unit sales growth for multi- and many-core systems. In September, the research firm IDC reported 10% growth for high-performance multi-core systems for the second quarter of 2008 alone. These high-performance systems though pose a challenge for software developers who need to transition from programming for single-core processors to multiple cores. To help alleviate this challenge, Visual Numerics has parallelized numerous algorithms in the IMSL C Library version 7.0 release using OpenMP technology. By using these parallelized algorithms, developers can write applications that take best advantage of the performance capabilities of multi-core systems.
