please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . november 2009 learn how and when to remove this template message pathscale ekopath compiler developer s pathscale inc. initial release 2003 ; 13 years ago 2003 stable release 5.0.0 december 5 2013 ; 2 years ago 2013 12 05 written in c and c operating system linux freebsd and solaris platform x86 64 type compiler website www.pathscale.com pathscale inc. is a company that develops a highly optimizing compiler for the x86 64 microprocessor architectures . it derives from the sgi compilers for the mips r10000 processor called mipspro . pathscale was originally founded in 2001 as key research and its original mission was to develop clustered linux server solutions based on a low cost 64 bit design . in late 2003 the company came out of stealth mode and was called pathscale . the word pathscale is descriptive of the company s original design goals for clusters . in early 2003 with the success of the amd opteron efforts at the company switched to other products like high performance 64 bit compilers . the seeds of the company were sown over 20 years ago at the lawrence livermore national laboratory . four of the company s seven founders all worked together building the s1 supercomputer back in the early 1980s . the first chief technical officer at pathscale tom mcwilliams had the initial idea for the company and incorporated in july 2001 . he added three of his llnl colleagues jeff rubin jeff broughton fred chow to the company shortly thereafter . mcwilliams had been a company founder at valid logic systems and key computer and worked at sgi sun microsystems and amdahl corporation . chow was formerly chief scientist for compilers at sgi and mips . pathscale inc. was acquired and re sold several times by qlogic in february 2006 by sicortex in august 2007 and by cray in august 2009 when sicortex was liquidated . cray owned the intellectual property until march 2012 when the new pathscale inc. acquired all assets . 1 on june 13 2011 pathscale announced that the ekopath 4 compiler suite will become open source software and licensed under the gpl . 2 3 4 contents 1 contents of the pathscale ekopath compiler suite 2 see also 3 references 4 further reading 5 external links contents of the pathscale ekopath compiler suite edit c c and fortran 77 90 95 2003 partial compilers complete support for openmp 2.5 including workshare complete support for 64 bit and 32 bit x86 compilation code generation for amd64 abi amd opteron and intel em64t optimized amd core math library advanced multi threaded debugger pathdb compatible with gnu gcc tool chain and popular third party debuggers supported on suse red hat and ubuntu see also edit free software portal companies portal list of compilers gpgpu openmp high performance computing references edit pathscale inc. acquires all pathscale intellectual property and assets from cray . prnewswire . march 12 2012 . ekopath 4 compiler suite going open source with support available . pathscale inc. https www.phoronix.com scan.php page article & item pathscale ekopath4 open pathscale open sources the ekopath 4 compiler suite https www.phoronix.com scan.php page news item & px otu2oa more details from the ekopath open source launch further reading edit pathscale ceo comments on company linux clustering external links edit official website path64 page retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title pathscale & oldid 743245396 categories c compilersc compilerscrayfortran compilershidden categories articles needing additional references from november 2009all articles needing additional referencesofficial website different in wikidata and wikipedia navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages edit links this page was last modified on 8 october 2016 at 19 14 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view