Europe unites to foster HPC technologies with the launch of an ITEA 2 project to exploit fully the power of multi-core architectures

· ParMA will improve the performance of conventional High Performance Computing (HPC) applications

· ParMA will enable the advent of power-intensive innovative embedded applications

25 June 2007– Leading European HPC players from France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom, announced today that they have joined forces to launch the ParMA consortium. The key objective of the new consortium is to help the HPC community to benefit fully from the processor race while developing innovative, flexible and open technologies for taking full advantage of the multi-core architectures.

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