Applications Run 2.2X Faster with Only 13% More Power.ASPEED Enables Applications to fully exploit new 45nm Hi-k Processors NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- ASPEED Software announces dramatic application performance and system improvements from benchmarking Intel's new 45nm Hi-k Quad-Core Intel[R] Xeon[R] processor 5400 series. The benchmarks were run on a Intel Xeon processor 5400 series ("Harpertown") running at 2.66GHz - 2.83GHz with 2x 6MB shared Cache and 1333MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. Front Side Bus. "The benchmark results answer the question of whether single-threaded applications can benefit from the multi-core technologies without having to be re-written," said Kurt Ziegler, ASPEED Software CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "What makes these benchmark results even more exciting to us and our customers is that our August 2006 Intel Xeon processor 5100 series ("Woodcrest") benchmarks, our November 2006 Intel Xeon 5300 processor series ("Clovertown") benchmarks and these Xeon processor 5400 processor series benchmarks were all run on the same physical system. Our engineers simply upgraded the 5100 to the 5300 by replacing the dual core with the quad core A single chip with four distinct processors that work simultaneously. Intel introduced its first x86-based quad-core CPUs in late 2006 (see Core 2), and AMD introduced its first x86 quad-core chips in 2007 (see Opteron). See dual core. boards. Two weeks ago we upgraded the 5300 to a 5400. The ACCELLERATED single-threaded benchmark application immediately leveraged the new architecture and delivered a 2.2-fold run time reduction while consuming only 13% more power, measured at the plug, when compared with the original Xeon 5100 system." The benchmark highlights Intel's faster chips that consume significantly less power using the same physical space and how ASPEED enables its clients' single-threaded ACCELLERATED applications to transparently benefit from such hardware platform advances without the need to rewrite or restructure the application. By the numbers: * Upgrading the Xeon 5100 processor series to a the Xeon 5300 processor series doubled the number of cores and improved the run time by 85% with an increase of 36% more power consumption at the plug * Upgrading the Xeon 5300 processor series to the Xeon 5400 processor series improved the run time by another 40% and reduced the power consumption by 23% when compared to the Xeon processor 5100 series. In short, the Xeon processor 5400 series upgrade from the Xeon processor 5100 series represents a 220% run time improvement with 13% more power consumption. These benchmarks used the Intel C++ compiler Intel C++ Compiler (also known as icc or icl) describes a group of C/C++ compilers from Intel. Compilers are available for Linux, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. Manufacturer suggested retail prices start at US$ 399. running a 64-bit version of AMBook on Redhat Linux. To see more details, visit www.aspeed.com. ACCELLERANT uniquely virtualizes applications to exploit multiple cores, CPUs and distributed systems Distributed systems (computers) A distributed system consists of a collection of autonomous computers linked by a computer network and equipped with distributed system software. such as those running in a cluster or on a grid without any tuning to ensure predictable and scalable capacity. ASPEED, whose primary focus is in Capital Markets, uses an AMBook (American Options Portfolio of options pricing) application as representative of a typical Wall Street run to price a portfolio of options using Monte Carlo-based analysis. The focus is on the impact of new platforms on representative applications in addition to shear performance potential. The benchmarks include varying the number of options and altering latency in the runs to characterize computational bound to I/O bound Refers to an excessive amount of time getting data in and out of the computer in relation to the time it takes for processing it. Faster channels and disk drives improve the performance of I/O bound computers. See I/O intensive. characteristics. Powering the Most Powerful The Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor 5400 series is the latest in a series of ACCELLERANT deployments using multi-core, multi-processors, clusters and grids, each demonstrating the performance benefits, scalability and configuration optimization. ASPEED offers an ACCELLERANT SDK (Software Developer's Kit) See developer's toolkit and Windows SDK. SDK - Software Developers Kit (or "Software Development Kit"). that supports C, C++, C#, Java, VB.net, EXCEL, VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) A subset of Visual Basic that provides a common language for customizing Microsoft applications. VBA supports COM, which allows a VBA script to invoke internal functions within Excel, Word and other COM-based programs or to make use of , MS Access and FORTRAN. ACCELLERANT is regularly deployed by leading organizations within the capital markets and energy verticals to optimize application performance and speed analysis to exploit multi-core, cluster, grid and other high-performance computing High-speed computing, which typically refers to supercomputers used in scientific research. environments. About ASPEED Software ASPEED Software Corporation is a privately held, venture-funded software company based in the heart of New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. with development centers in New York and London. ASPEED's value proposition is to enable its clients with existing single threaded and multi-threaded applications to significantly reduce response times and improve precision by leveraging multi-core systems, clusters and grids. ASPEED's software is used in some of the industry's leading financial institutions improving competitiveness, productivity and accuracy of the analysis. For more information, please visit www.aspeed.com Intel, Intel Core The latest generation of the Intel x86 family of CPUs. Core supersedes the 13-year run of the Pentium, which was introduced in 1993. It essentially represents the ninth generation of the x86 architecture, the first chip appearing in the IBM PC in 1981. and the Intel logo and Xeon are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the United States and other countries. *Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. ASPEED Software, ACCELLERANT and the ASPEED Logo are the trademarks of ASPEED Software Corporation. 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