PathScale gave 64-bit Linux clusters an added boost on Tuesday announcing delivery of a new compiler suite that reportedly gives AMD’s Opteron and Intel’s Xeon EM64T chips 40 percent more speed. Version 2.0 of the company’s EKOPath compilers for C, C++ and Fortran 77/90/95 can produce performance improvements of at least 20 per cent for most High Performance Computing (HPC) applications compared with previous PathScale compilers and up to 40 percent faster applications performance over those of competitors. New enhancements support for OpenMP 2.0 for Fortran, the industry-standard Application Program Interface (API) that allows programmers to parallelize applications on a multi-processor node. More Information is available at www.pathscale.com/pdf/PathScaleEKOPath.pdf. Technology Industry