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**Please note that the older press releases are made available for your convenience, but the information
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April 2008:

April 10, 2008 - MKS Announces New Release of MKS Toolkit Product Family and PC X Server - Immediate Availability of MKS Toolkit version 9.2 and MKS X/Server version 8.5
                                      

MKS Inc. (MKS) (TSX: MKX) announced today the immediate availability of MKS Toolkit version 9.2 and MKS X/Server version 8.5. With each new release, MKS continues our mission to provide true UNIX/Linux to Windows compatibility, connectivity and interoperability. These releases show MKS' commitment in delivering solid new features while enhancing existing functionality. All MKS Interoperability products are fully compatible with VISTA.
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February 2008:

February 28, 2008 - New Absoft Roll + Rocks Partnership with Clustercorp for x64 Linux Clusters!
                                      

Absoft(R) Corporation & Clustercorp, today announced the immediate availability of a new Absoft Roll as part of its Rocks+Rolls program. The Absoft Roll includes the Absoft Pro Fortran v10.1 Compiler Suite for x86_64 systems and is fully compatible with Rocks+ 4.3 and the open-source Rocks 4.3 software stack. The Absoft compiler suite includes optimizations for the complete line of AMD and Intel x64 processors, as well as specialized tuning for the new Quad-Core AMD Opteron ™ processors, which is particularly pertinent to the HPC Cluster community.
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February 21, 2008 - New MATFOR Express Visualization Tools With Pro Fortran v10.1 Windows
                                      

Absoft(R) Corporation, today announced the immediate availability of MATFOR Express, a new, low cost, data visualization tool suite for Windows. MATFOR Express is based on AnCAD's well-known MATFOR Visualization Toolset and under a special program from Absoft, can be obtained FREE with the purchase of Pro Fortran v10.1 for Windows!
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January 2008:

January 16, 2008 - New Absoft Pro Fortran for MacOS/PPC Targets Leopard & Includes New IDE
                                      

Absoft(R) Corporation, today announced the immediate availability of the new Pro Fortran 9.5 Fortran suite for 32-bit and 64-bit MacOS/PPC Leopard and Tiger systems.
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December 2007:

December 11, 2007 - Absoft Announces New Pro Fortran Compiler Technology for MacOS/Intel
                                       Targeting Leopard and Multi-Core Systems
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Absoft(r) Corporation, a leading developer of compilers, debuggers and software development tools for high performance computing, today announced immediate availability of the new Pro Fortran 10.1 release which includes automatic optimizers and vectorizers for developing multi-threaded applications on the newest MacOS/Intel, multi-core based systems.
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November 2007:

November 14, 2007 - Absoft Announces New Pro Fortran Compiler Technology for Windows
                                       Targeting AMD64 Multi-Core Processors
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Absoft(R) Corporation, today announced the immediate availability of its new Pro Fortran v10.1 for Windows which includes tuning for the new Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm). Absoft and AMD are co-operating to advance compiler technology designed to simplify migration to, and increase performance on, new systems based on quad-core technology from AMD (NYSE: AMD).
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October 2007:

October 17, 2007 - Absoft Announces First Fortran IDE for AMD and Intel 32/64-bit Multi-Core Systems . The IDE comes bundled with Absoft compilers as part of Absoft's new Pro Fortran v10.1 tool suites. The new tool suites are targeted at single and multi-core systems running Linux, Windows and MacOS on processors from Intel (NYSE: INTC) and AMD (NYSE: AMD), including AMD's new Quad-Core AMD Opteron (tm) The IDE simplifies software development and includes upgraded Absoft compilers, which provide higher performance plus auto-parallelization and auto-vectorization capabilities for multi-core systems. Read more...

October 3, 2007 - Absoft Announces New Fortran Compiler Technology For AMD Multi-Core Processors . Absoft Corporation, a leading developer of compilers, debuggers and software development tools for high performance computing, today announced the new Absoft Pro Fortran v10.1 Compiler Suite for x86_64 systems, which includes tuning for new Quad-Core AMD Opteron ™ processors. Absoft and AMD (NYSE: AMD) are co-operating to advance compiler technology to simplify migration to, and increase performance on, new systems based on AMD quad-core technology. Read more...


July 2007:

July 12, 2007 - Absoft Releases First IMSL Fortran Numerical Library Implementation for MacOS/Intel. Absoft Corporation, a leading developer of compilers, debuggers and software development tools for high performance computing, today announced another first for the MacOS/Intel community -- the immediate availability of the IMSL(r) Fortran Numerical Library. The IMSL Library, developed by Visual Numerics(r), Inc., is the recognized standard in mathematical and statistical algorithms for high performance computing. The release by Absoft Corporation marks the first implementation of the IMSL Fortran Library for MacOS/Intel available from any developer source. Read more...


March 2007:

March 20, 2007 - Absoft releases the first commercial 64-bit Fortran for Mac OS/Intel. Absoft Corporation, a leading developer of compilers, debuggers and software development tools for high performance computing today announced the immediate availability of Absoft Pro Fortran v10 for Mac OS/Intel. Absoft Pro Fortran v10 for Mac OS/Intel is the first Fortran suite to include both 32-bit and 64-bit compilers plus a complete development environment designed for Fortran programmers. Pro Fortran is fully compatible with both Tiger and Leopard operating systems, Apple tools and the gnu tool chain. Prices start at $299 and special introductory pricing is available for existing Absoft customers. Read more...


September 2006:

September 19, 2006 - Absoft Pro Fortran v10 for Windows 32/64 demonstrates a 20% speed increase with their new v10 Fortran compilers. Absoft Corporation, a market leader in Fortran compilers, debuggers, and software development tools for desktop and high performance computing today announced its new top-performing Absoft Pro Fortran v10.0 for 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft® Windows® 2000/XP and Microsoft® Windows® Compute Cluster Server (CCS) 2003 running on Intel® and AMD® processors. Read more...


June 2006:

June 15, 2006 - Absoft Announces General Availablity of Performance-leading Absoft Fortran Compilers for 64-bit Windows XP and Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003
Absoft Corporation, a market leader in Fortran compilers, debuggers, and software development tools for high performance computing today announced general availability of its new top-performing Absoft Fortran Compiler v10.0 for 64-bit Microsoft® Windows® XP and Microsoft® Windows® Compute Cluster Server (CCS) 2003 running on Intel® Xeon® and AMD® Opteron® processors. Read more


April 2006:

April 26, 2006 - New Performance-leading Absoft Fortran Compilers for 64-bit Windows XP and Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003
Absoft Corporation, a market leader in Fortran compilers, debuggers, and software development tools for high performance computing today announced the new top-performing Absoft Fortran Compiler v10.0 for 64-bit Microsoft® Windows® XP and Microsoft® Windows® Compute Cluster Server (CCS) 2003 running on Intel® Xeon® and AMD® Opteron® processors. Prices start as low as $299 and the product will begin shipping in May, 2006. Read more

April 5, 2006 - New Absoft Roll contains leading software development tools for Intel® processor-based clusters and grids using Platform Rocks
Absoft Corporation, a global leader in cluster and grid computing software solutions, today announced the new Absoft Roll with Intel® Software Products for Platform Rocks. The new Absoft Roll provides software developers with the best compilers, debuggers, math and message passing libraries, and advanced performance tuning and optimization tools for compiling, debugging, running, and optimizing high performance computing applications for clusters and grids.Read more


March 2006:

March 7, 2006 - AnCAD’s MATFOR 4 Numerical and Visualization Libraries Now Available with Top Performing Absoft Fortran Compilers for Linux and Windows
Absoft today announced availability of AnCAD’s new MATFOR 4 Numerical and Visualization Libraries with Absoft's Pro Fortran Compilers on Windows and with Absoft Fortran compilers on Linux. MATFOR contains numerical and visualization libraries developed specially for scientists and engineers to easily visual their results, including movies, animation, and much more. MATFOR may be applied to almost any scientific or engineering field such as wave propagation, fluid dynamics, solid mechanics, and many more. MATFOR’s functions enhance Fortran and C++ programs with dynamic visualization capabilities, shorten numerical codes and speed up the development process. Read more


January 2006:

January 31, 2006 - Absoft News – Absoft Announces Availability of IMSL™ Fortran Numerical Library Optimized for 64-bit Linux with New Top-performing Absoft Fortran Compilers
Rochester Hills, MI (January 31, 2006) – Absoft Corporation announced today the general availability of the Visual Numerics IMSL™ Fortran Numerical Library version 5.0 optimized for Linux on 64-bit Intel® Xeon™ and AMD® Opteron™ processors with Absoft’s new performance-leading Fortran compilers, which started shipping on January 19th. Read more

January 19, 2006 - Absoft Begins Shipping New Top Performing Fortran Compilers for Intel® Xeon™ and AMD® Opteron™ Processors
Today Absoft Corporation announced top performing new Fortran compilers optimized for both Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron processors running Linux, along with plans to offer these exciting new high-performance compilers for 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X® using Intel processors. The new compilers will also be available in high-performance 'best of breed' software development kits (SDKs) and bundles from Absoft for clusters, grids, and servers running Linux and Mac OS X, including new Intel-based systems from Apple®. Read more

January 11, 2006 - Absoft® Announces New Software Development Solutions with Intel® Tools for Apple Computers using Intel® Processors
Today at Apple's MacWorld Conference, Absoft Corporation announced plans to offer software development solutions designed for Apple's new Intel-based computers. The new software development solutions extend Absoft's existing product line for PowerPC-based systems from Apple. The new developer solutions include tools from Intel and Absoft optimized specifically for Apple MacBook Pro computers using Intel® Core Duo processors.Read more


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