“TurboLinux, Inc., the high-performance Linux company, and SGI
(NYSE: SGI), known worldwide for providing a broad range of
high-performance computing and advanced graphics solutions, today
announced an agreement to incorporate SGI’s breakthrough SGI
Pro64 compiler technology into TurboLinux’s forthcoming commercial
release of TurboLinux for IA-64, for substantially increased IA-64
performance on Linux.”
“TurboLinux is also planning to ship the SGI Pro64 compiler as a
key component of TurboLinux for IA-64 for use by developers to
boost performance of applications running on the Intel Itanium
platform.”
“We believe SGI’s compiler technology will play a significant
role in making enterprise-ready Linux solutions available on
IA-64,” said Ly Pham, executive vice president of Worldwide
Development, TurboLinux. “With its sophisticated compiler suite,
SGI has proven to be a leading player in the effort to create a
Linux port for IA-64 that would be available to our customers and
the open source community at or before the Itanium processor
launch.”