Apogee Compilers on CS6400 Cray: Mardi Larson, 612/683-3538 Apogee: George Malek, 408/369-9001 APOGEE C AND FORTRAN COMPILERS NOW AVAILABLE ON CRAY SUPERSERVER 6400 SYSTEM Compilers Helped CS6400 Achieve Industry-Leading SPECrate92 Benchmark Rates BEAVERTON, Ore., Feb. 17, 1993 -- Cray Research Superservers, Inc. (CRS), today announced that it has signed an agreement with Apogee Software, Inc. to make Apogee-C and Apogee- FORTRAN compilers available on the new CRAY SUPERSERVER 6400 system. Apogee compilers feature integrated KAP parallelizing pre-processors from Kuck and Associates to optimize performance on the symmetric multi-processor CS6400 system. "With the aid of Apogee's compilers with KAP parallelization, we recently achieved a rate of 54,186 on the SPECrate_int92 benchmark and a rate of 72,177 on the SPECrate_fp92 benchmark using a 32-processor CS6400 system," said Martin Buchanan, general manager of CRS. "These benchmarks, the fastest-ever recorded, were announced by us separately today. They measure integer and floating-point performance on scalable multi-processor systems and to date our performance leads the industry. The Apogee compilers generated code that efficiently uses the CS6400 system's scalable architecture, large shared memory, and fast I/O (input/output)." Apogee's compilers are widely used in the high-performance computing community and have been licensed by a number of leading RISC computer manufacturers, according to George Malek, chairman and chief executive officer of Apogee. "The compilers use Apogee's proprietary optimizing technology which produces extremely fast SPARC code," said Malek. "In addition, the Apogee compiler products provide options that invoke optimization specific to the SuperSPARC processors used in the CRAY SUPERSERVER 6400. And even faster program execution is possible when code is parallelized with the integrated KAP pre-processor, which takes advantage of the highly parallel CS6400." The CS6400, priced beginning at under $400,000 (U.S.), is a symmetric multi-processing system which is completely SPARC/Solaris compliant. Systems are available with up to 64 processors, up to 16 gigabytes of memory, more than 2 terabytes of online storage, and up to 64 I/O channels. The new system is the first UNIX Superserver system to combine the reliability, availability and serviceability features for today's commercial production environment. Apogee Software Inc., based in Campbell, Calif., specializes in high-performance compilers and is the exclusive distributor of the SPARC version of the KAP pre-processor, which was developed by and licensed from Kuck and Associates, Inc., Champaign, Ill. The KAP pre-processor has been tightly integrated with Apogee compilers for maximum performance on multi-processor systems. CRS, based here, is a subsidiary of Cray Research, Inc. (NYSE:CYR). Cray Research creates the most powerful, highest- quality computational tools for solving the world's most challenging scientific and industrial problems. ###