About us

Overview
Crescent Bay Software specializes in software tools and compiler technology for high-performance computers. We are experts in vectorization, automatic parallelization, and high-level optimization of computer programs. Our best known product line is the VAST family of automatic optimizers, which have been available since 1981. We also offer the DEEP parallel performance analysis tool, available since 1998.
Experience The staff of Crescent Bay Software has a combined record of more than 90 years in advanced compiler optimization, with advanced degrees in mathematics, physics, computer science and business administration.
Location Since the beginning, we've lived and worked near Santa Monica Bay, in the Los Angeles area -- thus our name and logo.
History We've been working in the field of optimization for high-speed computers since the mid 1970's, when we started helping to port applications to the ILLIAC-IV, one of the first true parallel computers, wrote "vector primitive" libraries for the CDC 7600 (the first true RISC machine) and converted programs at Los Alamos National Laboratories to use the first Cray vector supercomputers. In 1979 we joined Pacific-Sierra Research Corp. and began development of VAST, a high-level program optimization tool. In 1985 VAST became the first commercial automatic parallelizer, as part of early parallel system maker Alliant Computer's compiler. VAST technology was used for several VLIW, SIMD and vector (or pseudo-vector) targets, including Univac's APS processor, the ETA 10, the Cydrome system, and Intel's i860 chip. In the late 1980's VAST was used for automatic parallelism and vectorization enhancement in Cray Research's compiler for their parallel-vector supercomputers, and as a superscalar accelerator for various high-end workstation systems, such as IBM's RS/6000. In recent years our technology has been used in the compiler for NEC's supercomputers, currently the fastest in the world, and to accelerate advanced desktop and embedded processors (e.g. PowerPC G4/G5/AltiVec, Telairity TVP, and ARM processors including the NEON SIMD unit), among other things.

In 1998, Pacific-Sierra Research was bought by Veridian Corp., where we became the High Performance Computing Group. In 2003 our group finally became an independent company, Crescent Bay Software. We continue to do what we've been doing for thirty years -- making fast computers go even faster.

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