Eindhoven, The Netherlands, January, 2011  – Vector Fabrics announces it has signed a contract with the EUROPRACTICE Software Service for the provision of its cloud-based vfAnalyst tool to European academic institutions and publicly funded research laboratories. Under this agreement, vfAnalyst will be available to over 530 universities and 100 research institutes across 44 countries.

vfAnalyst will aid research staff and students in implementing algorithms, protocols, and other critical software programs on multicore and heterogeneous platforms. The tool’s unique graphical interface makes it easy to identify which portions of the program can be run in parallel, and what kinds of data communications are needed in order to ensure that the multi-threaded code will operate identically to – but much faster than – the sequential code.

“We have seen strong demand from our research community for solutions to help them solve the difficult problem of how to partition and map sequential software algorithms into the latest multicore platform architectures. Our scientists want to get access to the highest-performance processing capabilities in multicore server architectures, GPGPU, DSP, FPGA and embedded application processors,” said John McLean, head of the Microelectronics Support Centre at STFC, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory which provides the EUROPRACTICE Software Service. “Vector Fabrics’ solution will help them get their software algorithms running in their platform of choice in significantly less time than the conventional manual and error-prone methods used today.”

Working under the umbrella of EUROPRACTICE, an EC initiative that aims to stimulate the wider exploitation of microelectronics technologies by European industry, the Software Service provides easy access to a wide range of IC and systems design tools.

“We are delighted to partner with the EUROPRACTICE team,” said Mike Beunder, CEO for Vector Fabrics. “Their success in delivering the very latest hardware and software design automation solutions to the world’s leading research and teaching centers in Europe and beyond is unprecedented.”