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ClearSpeed(TM) Delivers Record Breaking Performance for High Performance ComputingSAN FRANCISCO --(Business Wire)-- ClearSpeed Technology (LSE: CSD), the only supplier of coprocessor acceleration technology exclusively focused on the high precision, high performance and low power requirements of the high performance and technical computing market, today announced breakthrough performance for a dual socket industry standard system. Two ClearSpeed Advance(TM) boards in a dual socket, Dual-Core Intel(R) Xeon(R) processor-based server, equipped with two 3GHz Dual-Core Intel(R) Xeon(R) 5160 processors, delivered 102.6 GFLOPS on the LINPACK benchmark compared with an already impressive 38 GFLOPS delivered by the base system. In addition to delivering breakthrough performance, the ClearSpeed technology is remarkably power efficient, delivering the additional 64.6 GFLOPS of performance while consuming only 50 Watts of additional power. "Performance combined with energy efficiency is a critical consideration for the entire industry, and especially so in high performance computing," said Jim Pappas, director of initiative marketing for Intel Corporation. "Specialist suppliers such as ClearSpeed Technology that work with Intel to provide breakthrough capabilities, play an important role in providing the optimum solution to our most demanding customers." At the Intel Developer Forum, ClearSpeed will also be previewing future technology capabilities that include a demonstration of the prototype PCI Express (PCIe) accelerator board. Working with Intel's IHV optimization lab, ClearSpeed engineers have validated the device driver efficiency for PCIe and realized the performance benefits that PCIe delivers when compared to the previous PCI-X specification. "We've been extremely impressed with support given by Intel's IHV optimization lab," said Con Bradley, the ClearSpeed Software engineer responsible for PCIe device drivers. "With Intel's assistance we have not only validated and improved our performance but gained an understanding of PCIe that will save several weeks of engineering effort." ClearSpeed Exhibits and Presentations at IDF ClearSpeed will be exhibiting in the PCIe community (booth number 327) where it will preview a demonstration of its PCIe accelerator board and also in Intel's IHV community (booth number 323) where it will demonstrate the record breaking ClearSpeed acceleration of a Woodcrest platform system. In addition there will be several opportunities to attend ClearSpeed presentations. ClearSpeed's vice president of applications, Simon McIntosh-Smith, will be speaking on Tuesday, September 26 in Room 2009 on "Accelerating Intel(R) MKL with ClearSpeed(TM) Advance(TM) boards on multi-core systems." Simon will also participate in an Intel industry press panel on Wednesday morning to discuss Intel's new Geneseo initiative. John Gustafson, ClearSpeed's CTO of High Performance Computing will represent ClearSpeed on a panel discussing "The Rocky Road to Petaflop Computing" on Wednesday, September 27 from 10:00-10:50 a.m. in Room 2011. About ClearSpeed ClearSpeed Technology is a specialist semiconductor company focused on delivering high-performance coprocessors to be used alongside general purpose processors in the world's most compute-intensive applications. ClearSpeed's advanced multi-threaded array processing technology provides the ability to significantly accelerate data-intensive applications at extremely low power. Products include chips, boards, software tools, applications and support. ClearSpeed has offices in San Jose, Calif. and Bristol, UK and has 84 patents granted and pending. For more information on ClearSpeed, visit www.clearspeed.com. About the Intel Developer Forum In its 10th year, IDF is the premier global technology forum for hardware and software developers to confer on Intel-based platforms, technologies and solutions, and the new usage models they enable. Visit www.intel.com/idf for more information. |
