About Us
Mission
Interactive Supercomputing, Inc. develops Star-P, a software platform that is Delivering Interactive Parallel Computing Power to the Desktop. Across a broad range of security, intelligence, manufacturing, energy, biomedical, financial, and scientific research applications, ISC enables faster prototyping, iteration, and deployment of large-scale solutions.
Product Summary
Star-P is an interactive parallel computing platform that extends existing desktop simulation tools for simple, user-friendly parallel computing on a spectrum of computing architectures: SMP servers, multi-core servers, and clusters. Our customers are scientists, engineers and analysts who want to solve large and complex problems that can no longer be done productively on the desktop computer. By eliminating the re-programming associated with porting desktop application code to parallel systems, Star-P fundamentally transforms the workflow, substantially shortening the "time to solution," and delivers the "best of both worlds" the interactive and familiar use of the desktop coupled with supercomputer-like problem-solving capabilities.
History
Over the last two decades the need to harness the power of parallel computing for faster algorithm development and new science intrigued Alan Edelman, an ISC co-founder and professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He concluded, along with colleagues at MIT and collaborating institutions, that by using simple extensions to the MATLAB® language that address large memories and multiple processors in today's PC-hardware data could be distributed across processors more efficiently and thereby reduce communication bottlenecks during calculations. ISC has a license from MIT to commercialize this technology, and has independently filed multiple patents. ISC was launched in 2004 to commercialize Star-P, and has subsequently worked closely with co-development partner Silicon Graphics, Inc., a leader in high-performance computing, visualization, and storage, to distribute and market this advanced technology.