"The Cornell Theory Center has a solid understanding of the computing obstacles faced by organisations across multiple fields operating in high-performance computing environments. Their expertise is a perfect complement to our industry-leading numerical analysis and visualization technology", stated Phil Fraher, COO of Visual Numerics. "By adding another highly regarded academic institution to our education network, we can share Visual Numerics' numerical libraries with an extended community of scientific, engineering and business users. Our partnership is sure to bring significant advances to engineers and researchers for years to come."

"CTC works diligently to help people working in a variety of fields optimize their computing resources and eliminate computational bottlenecks", stated Tom Coleman, director of the Cornell Theory Center. "We have found that using industry standard hardware and software provides an efficient and fiscally responsible solution to solving computationally and data-intensive problems. The collaboration with Visual Numerics is an example of our commitment to sharing the benefits of high-performance computing with a growing number of users by making it accessible and understandable."

Visual Numerics' IMSL numerical libraries are a comprehensive set of mathematical and statistical functions that programmers can easily embed into their software applications. Fortune 500 companies and R&D labs and universities around the world rely on IMSL for a wide variety of business-critical applications covering areas such as risk management, portfolio optimization, weather forecasting, automotive and aerospace manufacturing, inventory management, and pharmaceutical trials. The IMSL libraries enable development of applications for high-performance computing in a much quicker timeframe by freeing programmers from developing their own internal code. IMSL provides rigorously tested, well-documented and commercially supported mathematical and statistical algorithms that can easily be integrated into C, Java, and Fortran applications.

CTC will integrate Visual Numerics' IMSL numerical libraries into its own HPC environment in order to offer users a more advanced cluster computing platform. In addition, the partnership will enable the two organisations to jointly address the growing number of increasingly complex issues that result from the use of new technologies within highly collaborative, research-driven environments. As part of the partnership, Visual Numerics and CTC will co-host seminars, workshops and live demonstrations, which will illustrate problem-solving techniques for developers and technical engineers.