Visual Numerics Enhances Usability, Performance and Platform Support for PV-WAVE Visual Data Analysis Software

PV-WAVE 9.5 includes Expanded OpenMP Parallelization Support, Usability Enhancements for Eclipse, and Support for Windows Vista and Windows 7 Platforms

BOULDER, CO - April 19, 2010 -- Today Visual Numerics, a Rogue Wave Software Company, announced the general availability of PV-WAVE® version 9.5, the next-generation of the company's industry-leading data analysis and visualization software. This release includes expanded usability, new performance features, and broader platform support. With PV-WAVE version 9.5, Visual Numerics enables engineers, scientists and business analysts in a variety of industries to build high-performing, visual analysis applications on a wider range of platforms, as well as perform data mining and forecasting of large and complex data sets to better understand trends, patterns and anomalies in their data.

"We continue to enhance and add features to our family of PV-WAVE products," said Margaret Journey, Sr. Director of Products and Services, Rogue Wave Software, Inc. "Our goal is to continually increase the productivity of analytic application developers by expanding the platform support and performance capabilities of PV-WAVE. We focus on adding the most critical features and platform support that help developers continue to overcome the common challenges they face when working to analyze complex and/or extremely large datasets."

This release of PV-WAVE 9.5 includes the following new enhancements and features:

• New Platforms - PV-WAVE 9.5 includes native support for Windows 7 32-bit version and the 64-bit versions of Windows Vista and Windows 7
• Expanded OpenMP support
  • Improved parallel performance on Windows platforms through automated runtime control of OpenMP threading parameters
  • OpenMP parallelization enabled for Linux 32-bit and 64-bit platforms
  • Ability to parallelize operations on complex and double complex data types
• Eclipse plug-in enhancements
  • Eclipse documentation is now integrated into the PV-WAVE Programmers Guide
  • Support for console input when users are in the PV-WAVE perspective
  • Ability to change variable values
  • New support for breakpoints in non-workspace files
• JWAVE, a Web Development Environment for thin-client visual data analysis applications, is now included with PV-WAVE Advantage.
• Support for INT32 data types

Availability

PV-WAVE 9.5 is available immediately. For more information on the PV-WAVE Family of products, please visit: http://www.vni.com/products/wave.

About Visual Numerics, A Rogue Wave® Software company.

Visual Numerics has provided technical software solutions for numerical analysis and visualization for 40 years and was recently acquired by Rogue Wave Software, a Battery Ventures portfolio company. Rogue Wave is the largest independent provider of cross-platform, embeddable libraries and development tools for HPC application design, testing and deployment. Rogue Wave's tools and components empower software developers to take advantage of the performance and scalability that multi-core and parallel technologies offer, and are proven by decades of use solving some of the world's most complex problems in commercial enterprise, academia, defense, and institutional research.

Rogue Wave Software products include the Visual Numerics PV-WAVE® visual data analysis development environment; the Visual Numerics IMSL® Numerical Libraries for powerful mathematical and statistical analysis; the SourcePro® C++ libraries for enterprise C++ development; the TotalView debugger, ReplayEngine and MemoryScape for parallel software debugging; Stingray® Studio for Windows GUI development and application integration tools. Rogue Wave Software offers consulting services to ensure customer success in delivering enterprise C++ applications and systems providing mathematical, statistical, or visual data analysis. For more information, visit www.roguewave.com.

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Rogue Wave Software
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