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Paris and Vancouver, - July 21, 2008 – Following the announcement of their strategic partnership last April, HPC Project and Parallel Geometry will be presenting this week at the GeoWeb 2008 conference their common vision of next generation computational environment for urban and other complex geospatial modeling.

This presentation will prefigure the roll-out of a common product planned for the fourth quarter of this year. This forthcoming product will take advantage of the unique capabilities of Parallel Geometry technology to enable real-time visualization and interaction with complex models. The product architecture will be based on the high-performance middleware developed by HPC Project for an unprecedented fluid manipulation and fly-through capacity involving large 3D complex scenes.

 “Recent discussions with our customers have demonstrated that the market is waiting for a turn-key solution for powering 3D urban modeling and geospatial simulation” said Pierre Fiorini, HPC Project Founder and CEO. “We will provide with Parallel Geometry the right mix of innovative algorithms and architecture innovation to fulfill this need. This product will fuel a whole new range of applications for large geodata sets and the wonder of it will be the ease of operation for the end-user.”

According to Jean-François Rotgé, President and CSO of Parallel Geometry, “For this first product coming out of our strategic partnership with HPC Project, we have decided to focus on the great challenge of eliminating the root cause of bottlenecks that currently limit the performance of GeoWeb 3D applications".

"Our technology offers the unique opportunity to unify multi-source spatial data (CAD, BIM, GIS…) in a single 3D/3D reference model, and to address at the same time the fundamental issues of multiscale and real-time interaction with complex models. The GeoWeb is an ideal business case to harness this potential. HPC Project, with its new class of computing environment, offers us the right form factor and high performance environment, to fully demonstrate a new generation of 3D visualization and simulation pipelines" added Rotgé.

This breakthrough initiative will result in a new class of geospatial appliance that will support very low cost processing of massive quantities of heterogeneous spatial data, and foster a new wave of 3-D geospatial applications for urban planners, civil engineers, scientists, homeland security professionals, emergency responders… "It represents an exciting opportunity for us and the GeoWeb community” added Pierre Fiorini.

During the last EUROSATORY show, held at Paris, France (June, 16-20), HPC Project showcased the latest innovations in simulation.  This was the first case EUROSATORY dedicated a display area specifically for the Training & Smulation sector. In this context, the showcase was featuring the latest simulation, computation and man-machine interface technologies. It was located in the middle of the Training & Simulation area.

The showcase highlighted the latest and cutting-edge simulation technologies, gathering ten leading companies of the field. The goal of the showcase was to demonstrate technologies that are critical in the context of the integration of simulation into operational systems.

Featured demos included:

• Multitouch surfaces for collaborating (pictured)
• New generation solution for tactical training
• Tools for rapid synthetic environment generation
• Virtual maintenance trainer (using virtual reality and immersive displays)
• Real-time tactical communication modelling
• Optimizing 3d hyper complex simulations
• High performance simulation
• Physics-based light & vision simulation
• Real time procedural terrain simulation

In addition, a series of conference on the future of simulation was held, and gathered both operational and specialists of the field. Keynote speeches were delivered by Tim Bloechl (Microsoft), Warren Katz (VT MAK) and Patrice Commune (PRESAGIS) - pictured. Two tracks were held : integration of simulation in operational systems and serious gaming/virtual universes. More information available at http://www.innov-in-simulation.com/InnovationShowcase.

Dr Keryell has over 25 years of research and industrial experience in parallelism and high-performance computing. He holds a post-graduate degree from the Ecole Normale Superieure and a PhD in computer science. An associate professor in the Computer Science research center of the Paris École des Mines engineering school (ENSMP/CRI) and in the Telecommunication engineering school in Bretagne, Dr Keryell also worked with the computer science lab of Paris XI/ENS. Ronan Keryell is an internationally recognized  expert in compilation, code development and system-on-chip design for high-performance computing. Especially, he co-developed PIPS, a world reference automatic parallelizer and code transformation framework. He published more than 70 articles in the fields of High Performance Computing architecture, compilation & parallelization and security for High Performance Computing.

"There are very few people who have the scope of experience that Ronan has in directing science in this sector " said Pierre Fiorini, president and CEO of HPC Project."Part of the skill base he brings is his ability to understand this environment that has been moving significantly over the past ten years. Ronan has been working with the world top-level laboratories, and understands the challenges of High Performance Computing better than most researchers in the field. “

As CSO, Dr Ronan Keryell will have responsibility for planning and execution of HPC Project’s scientific objectives, and building relationships with the most advanced laboratories in the domain.

Paris and Montreal , April 11, 2008 -  HPC Project, a pioneer developer of tools and strategies for high-performance computing and code optimization, and Parallel Geometry (llgeometry), a world leader in symbolic geometry for high performance modeling, visualization and spatial simulations, announced today their strategic partnership.

This partnership will leverage the companies’ respective strengths to dramatically grow their presence in the 3D visualization and simulation market, providing customers with unprecedented real-time modeling, visualization and simulation capabilities.

“For our customers, HPC Project addresses the challenge of competition in a new market of heavily parallel processors and next generation architectures” says Pierre Fiorini, HPC Project Founder and CEO. “Parallel Geometry will boost our ability to offer our customer a whole new generation of 3D modeling and visualization technologies, a real breakthrough departing from the usual polygonal techniques. The partnership with Parallel Geometry will bring tremendous value to our users, extending their ability to address highly complex simulation models.”

According to Jean-François Rotgé, President and CSO of Parallel Geometry, “ Our business is to deliver solutions for the most difficult challenges in today's simulation environments. Working with HPC Project, Parallel Geometry intends to lead the convergence between desktop high performance computing and geometric simulations, paving the way for a new generation of geometric machines able to address the most difficult problems in research and engineering”

“Capitalizing on the early success of its parallel programming paradigms, Parallel Geometry has the right skills and expertise to apply computational geometry methods to new advanced computing platforms available in the market.“ says Emmanuel Chiva, VP Business Development at HPC Project. “This is what our customers and partners expect; we are delighted to be part of this ecosystem, and combine our innovation strengths to provide customers with a truly unique simulation and visualization solution”.

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