Branford, Connecticut-based Multiflow Computer Inc, the builder of very long instruction word departmental supercomputers that has been looking for additional finance to secure its future, has received a welcome boost from C Itoh Techno-Science Co Ltd, Tokyo, which has signed a $30m agreement to handle sales of the Trace computer line and to provide post-sales hardware and software technical support in Japan. The pact runs for three years and is exclusive. Key benefit claimed for the Trace CPUs is that they do not require programmers to re-write application code. Applications up include mechanical computer-aided-design, signal and image processing, finite element analysis, computational fluid dynamics, computational chemistry, plasma physics, and seismic surveying, and the firm’s Trace Scheduling compacting compilers are claimed to combine high performance with ease of use.
