TOKYO, Japan - 3nd April 2009 - Fixstars Corporation, a pioneering company in multi-core programming solutions today announced that it has launched a GPU software service based on the NVIDIA® CUDA™ GPU computing architecture from NVIDIA Corporation. Fixstars, as a multi-core solution company, is expanding its current application development, optimization service, and products to global customers exploiting the significant advantage from parallel computing with NVIDIA GPUs.

"Industries such as oil and gas, finance and manufacturing rely on computation for the growth and success of their business and these companies are today turning to GPUs to get the next big jump in performance ," said Andy Keane, general manager, Tesla Computing Products at NVIDIA. "With the support of Fixstars, these companies can now augment their development teams and leverage Fixstars' HPC industry experience to quickly deliver powerful GPU enabled applications to market."

"Many companies, when considering the move to multi-core, are considering GPUs to enhance their system performance," said Satoshi Miki, CEO of Fixstars Corporation. "Through setting up a professional team of CUDA/GPU computing development experts, Fixstars will be able to provide GPU application optimization services to a wide range of customers."

Fixstars is offering NVIDIA Tesla™ products today and will hold "The CUDA programming seminar" for developers in late April in Tokyo.

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About Fixstars

Fixstars Corporation provides software technology solutions that target Cell/B.E. and GPU with a vision of the future where multi-core microprocessors are the standard. Fixstars enables the increase in performance of Multi-core based operations through provision of a complete, integrated ecosystem with specific turn-key products for Finance, Medical, Manufacturing, and Digital media markets.

For more information, visit www.fixstars.com/en

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