Bangkok--30 Oct--Marketwire
Mitrionics, Inc., developer of the MitrionTM Virtual Processor and the Mitrion Software Acceleration Platform, today announced its Mitrionics MVP622 Hybrid Computing Server accelerated computing solution based on SGI(R) Altie(R) XE 320 server with a Quad-Core Intel(R) Xeon(R) 5420 Processor. The Dual-Socket Accelerated Server will include licenses for two Mitrion Virtual Processors (MVP), the XtremeData, Inc.TM XD2000iTM Front Side Bus (FSB) socket based accelerator hardware, each with dual Altera(R) StratixTM III FPGAs, plus the Mitrion Software Development Kit with parallel programming language and working example code. This new MVP622 Hybrid Computing Server is the first of its kind that integrates hardware with an MVP, and a complete parallel programming environment in a single, off-the-shelf solution.
"The world of computation is changing for good reasons," stated Mike Calise, executive vice president and general manager of Mitrionics, Inc. "The industry has finally arrived at the point where hybrid computing is no longer relegated to exotic supercomputers. This package is commercially available and inexpensive, and since we're solving the programming hurdle for FPGAs, makes the greenest accelerator alternative accessible to our customers."
"Mitrionics and SGI have worked together for years bringing the best Reconfigurable computing solutions to customers," said Bill Mannel, director of server marketing, SGI. "By coupling the Altix ? XE 320 server with the new MVP Hybrid Computing Development System, we marry the advantages of the Altix XE 320, which seeks to optimize data center space while minimizing the power footprint, with the latest FPGA developments in the market today."
"We are starting to see increased adoption of accelerators of all types, and the FPGA offerings from Mitrionics might be particularly compelling for applications such as genome informatics or large-scale internet search," said Addison Snell, VP of Tabor Research. "The fundamental difference for recent FPGA adoption lies in the reduced memory latency handled well by using a socket approach. These emerging, non-traditional application areas represent the highest potential growth in high-performance computing."
Mitrionics Hybrid Computing Development Systems are designed for industry, academics, government agencies, genome centers, data services providers, and independent software vendors (ISVs) that are interested in exploring the benefits of breakthrough hybrid computing architectures in practical workstation or server configurations. The applications that benefit from a system with at least two optimized compute processor types are those within genome informatics, Internet data processing, business process optimization, and most non 64-bit floating point HPC applications. These demanding integer-centric codes benefit from the variable bit width operations and fine grain parallelism inherent to Altera FPGA-based co-processors tightly coupled with Intel's fastest CPUs.
The system allows you to write accelerated algorithm code for a dedicated MVP data parallel co-processor within a fully integrated XD2000i "In-Socket Accelerator" (ISA) from XtremeData, Inc. This Altera based ISA is tightly "memory coupled" to the world's fastest CPU's from Intel through the industry standard front side bus (FSB) interface. The dual-socket servers can be configured to operate standalone or stacked in a cluster for highly dense green computing. The Mitrionics MVP622 Hybrid Computing Server is scheduled for availability in Q4 2008 with a list price of $24,900 USD.
"The fast fabric and I/O capabilities of Stratix III FPGAs are validated in the Mitrionics platform by achieving FSB speed," said Dr. Misha Burich, Altera's senior vice president of research and development. "Stratix III FPGAs fully integrated into the XD2000i ISA demonstrate the benefits of the digital signal processing architecture for algorithms with floating point data."
Mitrionics MVP622 Hybrid Computing Server details
-- Dual Mitrion Virtual Processors
-- Mitrion Software Development Kit with one year email support
-- SGI Altix XE 320 dual socket server with single 2.5GHz quad-core Intel Xeon 5420 CPU, 4GB DDR2 800 (2X2 GB) memory
-- 250GB 7200RPM SATA Hard Disk Drive, with an optional second disk drive per system.
-- XtremeData XD2000i in-socket accelerator with dual Altera Stratix III 3S260E FPGAs, 16MB SRAM
-- CentOS 5.1 Linux Operating System
-- 1U Standard Rack Height
-- 650 Watt Autoswitching power supply
-- Optional interconnect and I/O expansion via on-board InfiniBand 4x DDR and a low-profile, half-length PCIe x8 Gen2 expansion slot
-- Optional second complete system in the same 1U chassis
About Altera
Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) programmable solutions enable system and semiconductor companies to rapidly and cost-effectively innovate, differentiate and win in their markets. Find out more at www.altera.com.
SGI - Innovation for ResultsTM
SGI (NASDAQ: SGIC) is a leader in high-performance computing. SGI delivers a complete range of high-performance server, visualization and storage solutions along with industry-leading professional services and support that enable its customers to overcome the challenges of complex data-intensive workflows and accelerate breakthrough discoveries, innovation and information transformation. SGI solutions help customers solve their computing challenges whether it's enhancing the quality of life through drug research, designing and manufacturing safer and more efficient cars and airplanes, studying global climate change, providing technologies for homeland security and defense, or helping enterprises manage large data. With offices worldwide, the company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., and can be found on the Web at sgi.com.
About XtremeData
XtremeData, Inc. creates hardware-accelerated database analytics appliances and is the inventor and leader in FPGA-based in-socket accelerators (ISAs). The company offers many different appliances and FPGA-based ISA solutions for markets such as decision support systems, financial analytics, video transcoding, life sciences, military and wireless. Founded in 2003, XtremeData is privately held and has two established locations. Headquarters are located in Schaumburg, Illinois, and a software development location in Bangalore, India. For more information, visit www.xtremedatainc.com.
About Mitrionics
Founded in 2001 and privately held, Mitrionics offers accelerated hybrid computing solutions. The Mitrion Virtual Processor (MVP) and the Mitrion Software Acceleration Platform accelerate a wide range of computing applications by exploiting the massively parallel and limitless internal bandwidth of standard FPGA architectures. Our products and services deliver a greener computing alternative, enabling 10x-100x performance increases and 90% less power consumption. Mitrionics' customers are focused on adopting hybrid computing architectures to meet the exponential rise of compute requirements without adding additional watts to the computer system. The most noted users of MVP come from the areas of genome informatics, internet data processing and business process optimization. Mitrionics has key industry partnerships with processor companies Intel, AMD, Xilinx, and Altera, systems vendors HP and SGI, and accelerator module suppliers XtremeData and Nallatech. Mitrionics is privately held and located in Lund, Sweden and Los Gatos, CA. For information, visit the company Web site at www.mitrionics.com, or call 408-395-3247, or email: [email protected]
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