Warwick Spin Out subsidiary, "Allinea Software" expands into the US

Based in Warwick (UK), a trading division of Concurrent Thinking Ltd, Allinea Software is a leading supplier of tools for parallel and high performance computing. Allinea was founded by computer scientists from Warwick and Oxford Universities, giving the company unrivalled expertise in scientific and parallel computing. Its first software product, the Distributed Debugging Tool (DDT) is an established product with a worldwide customer base that includes a large number of universities, government research institutes and high profile commercial organisations. With the introduction of the Optimisation and Profiling Tool (OPT), and a new architecture that is common to all of its tools, Allinea offers unprecedented capabilities for application developers and HPC users.

Allinea Software, a leading supplier of interoperable high performance computing software, today announced the opening of their sales office in the United States. The office, opened as a response to customer demand and to assist in the further expansion of Allinea software services in the US, is located at 8044 Montgomery Road, Suite 700, Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio 45236.

Allinea Software also today announced, as part of this rapid expansion, the appointment of Mark Corcoran to the position of Sales Director, North America. Marks’ role will be to lead Allinea’s further growth in the US market.

Mark has over 28 years experience in a highly competitive environment with an outstanding sales record, encompassing an extensive HPC hardware and software sales background. He began his career with Worldplex, later working for companies including Data General, Elxsi/Trilogy inc, nCUBE, Amdahl, and Cray. He joins Allinea from NEC Supercomputer division.

Jacques Philouze, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Allinea Software, commented: “We are extremely excited about the potential that exists for Allinea Software in the North American market. We are also delighted to welcome Mark to the Allinea team and believe that his skills, knowledge and approach will be an important factor in our future success in the region. This office will allow us to better serve our existing customers in North America such as SHARCNET in Canada and LLNL in USA as part of a fast growing customer base.

Allinea Software will be exhibiting at the 8th LCI International Conference in South Lake Tahoe, California, USA from May 14 -17, 2007, HPCS in Saskatoon, Canada from May 13-16, 2007, Supercomputing Conference (SC2007) in Nevada, USA from November 10 -16, 2007.

For further information please contact:

Jacques Philouze, VP of Sales and Marketing
Jacques@allinea.com
Tel: +44 (0) 1926 623131