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Press Release: plans to implement a parallel version of IDL

TECH-X CORPORATION RECEIVES SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH (SBIR) AWARD
TO IMPLEMENT DATA ANALYSIS AND VISUALIZATION SOFTWARE ON MANY PROCESSORS

Boulder, CO  July 31, 2001 - Tech-X Corporation, developer of
high-performance software solutions for science, engineering and education,
has received a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award from
the U.S. Department of Energy. The project, "Interactive Visualization
and Analysis of Fusion Data on many Processors," will develop
a parallel implementation of IDL (the Interactive Data Language)
from Research Systems Inc.  The prototype application will be used by
General Atomics for rapid analysis of large data sets from magnetic fusion
energy experiments.

"The future of scientific computing, data analysis and visualization
 lies in the parallel use of hundreds or even thousands of processors",
 says principal investigator David Bruhwiler.  "IDL is one of the most
 widely-used data analysis and visualization tools within the scientific
 and medical imaging communities, and seamless use of IDL on many
 processors in parallel will represent a true paradigm shift."

"The new initiative at Tech-X Corporation to enable the parallel
 use of IDL's powerful features on multiple processors is an exciting
 development, which could add great value to many IDL users," says
 IDL product manager Harold Cline of Research Systems Inc.

About Tech-X Corporation
Tech-X Corporation is a privately held company with headquarters in Boulder,
Colorado. Formed in 1994 to develop modern software for science, engineering
and education, Tech-X has government contracts in the areas of distributed
computing for technical collaborations, object-oriented applications for
designing radar tubes and particle accelerators, development of
cross-platform software components, and development of software tools for
interactive, web-based physics education. Tech-X Corporation can be found on
the web at URL http://www.techxhome.com.