ClearSpeed Advance(TM) Accelerator Boards Certified by Wolfram Research; Math Coprocessors Enable Mathematica Users to Quadruple Performance.BRISTOL, England -- ClearSpeed Technology today announced that Wolfram wolfram: see tungsten. Research's powerhouse Mathematica software has been certified for use with ClearSpeed Advance(TM) math accelerator boards on 64bit AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, www.amd.com) A major manufacturer of semiconductor devices including x86-compatible CPUs, embedded processors, flash memories, programmable logic devices and networking chips. Opteron(TM) and Intel(R) Xeon(R)-based platforms running Linux. At the Eighth International Mathematica Symposium (IMS'06) in Avignon, France, ClearSpeed demonstrated Mathematica computing double-precision general matrix-matrix multiply (DGEMM) operations at a 4.5x speedup compared with a non-accelerated system. Users and industry watchers alike have come to expect that Mathematica will be available and fully optimized for the latest hardware and operating environments, from workstations to supercomputers. Today's visionaries are pushing the next wave of high-performance computing High-speed computing, which typically refers to supercomputers used in scientific research. (HPC (Handheld PC) A palmtop computer that weighs less than one pound and runs specialized versions of popular applications. Microsoft coined the term for its Windows CE operating system, which is an abbreviated version of Windows. See Pocket PC. ) system architectures by deploying hybrid systems where a range of complementary technologies are combined to deliver the optimum match of overall system performance for their workloads while paying careful attention to the environmental and economic impact of those systems. Headquartered in Bristol, UK, and with U.S. offices in Calif., ClearSpeed Technology is a specialist semiconductor company focused on the design and development of microprocessors and boards that significantly increase performance for numerically-intensive applications. ClearSpeed's products provide application acceleration without significantly impacting power, cooling or space requirements, thus optimizing for the performance per Watt metrics which are rapidly becoming the dominant consideration in designing and deploying HPC systems. "Support of leading applications is an essential part of the wide scale adoption of any new technology," said Tom Beese, 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. for ClearSpeed. "Wolfram Research Wolfram Research is an international company that summarizes its aim as "Pushing the Envelope of Technical Computing". The main product of Wolfram Research is Mathematica, an environment for technical computing. was first-to-market with all-platform 64-bit and multi-core support with Mathematica, which creates the perfect software foundation for ClearSpeed accelerator technology." At the heart of ClearSpeed's products lies the CSX CSX Chessie Seaboard Multiplier (railroad transportation company) CSX Cayman Islands Stock Exchange CSX Changsha, China (Airport Code) CSX Cardiac-Specific Homeobox CSX Seaboard Coastline Railroad 600, an embedded parallel processor with 96 cores that executes up to 25 billion 64-bit floating-point operations per second (Flops) while consuming an average of 10 Watts of energy. It is the world's fastest and most power-efficient 64-bit floating point processor. The ClearSpeed Advance(TM) accelerator board combines two CSX600 processors in a PCI-X (PCI eXtended) An enhanced PCI bus technology originally developed by IBM, HP and Compaq that is backward compatible with existing PCI cards. PCI and 32-bit PCI-X slots are physically the same, and PCI cards can plug into PCI-X slots. form factor that delivers up to 50 GFlops of sustained double-precision general matrix-matrix multiply (DGEMM) performance averaging less than 25W. The ClearSpeed Advance board plugs into industry standard workstations and servers without any modification. Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. XP and Linux operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. (Red Hat and SUSE) are supported. Drivers are currently available for x86 and x86-64 systems. "Mathematica's numerical computations are highly optimized," said Conrad Wolfram, director of strategic and international development. "Multiplying this by the speed-up from ClearSpeed's Advance accelerator brings unprecedented performance to the desktop; or to each node in a gridMathematica deployment. Supporting innovative hardware at the outset is important to our mission: Those at the frontiers of science Frontiers of Science was a popular illustrated comic strip created by Professor Stuart Butler of the School of Physics at the University of Sydney in collaboration with Robert Raymond, a documentary maker from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) in 1962. and technology need support for frontier hardware." 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 Array processing is signal processing of the outputs of an array of sensors to:
About Wolfram Research Wolfram Research is the world's leading developer of computational software for science and technology, offering organization-wide computing solutions. Led by Mathematica, its flagship product, the company's software is relied on today by several million enthusiastic users around the world and has been the recipient of many industry awards. Wolfram Research was founded in 1987 by Stephen Wolfram, who continues to lead the company today. The company is headquartered in the United States, with offices in Europe and Japan. Go to www.wolfram.com for more information about Wolfram Research and its products. |
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