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Convey Computer Signs Partner Agreements with Mitrionics and Platform Computing
Nov 21, 2009 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) --
Convey Computer, a developer of hybrid-core computing solutions and software, announced it has signed partnership agreements with HPC software companies Mitrionics and Platform Computing.
"The driver for agreements with these software companies is efficiency for our customers," said Bruce Toal, CEO and president, Convey Computer. "By supporting Mitrionics' products on our hybrid-core computing systems, customers can develop and deploy custom personalities in a shorter time period. By using Platform Computing's scheduling software, customers can manage compute or data-intensive workloads on HPC clusters and grids."
Mitrionics, a developer of FPGA-based software development products, noted it will support its Mitrion Virtual Processor and Mitrion Software Development Kit on Convey's HC-1 hybrid-core computers. FPGA computing applications, championed by both Mitrionics and Convey, are attractive to HPC users because of the technology's lower power consumption, architectural flexibility, and increased application performance. Programmable "on the fly," yet still close enough to raw semiconductor gates, FPGAs represent a way to get application-specific performance without the time and cost of developing a custom ASIC.
The Mitrionics-Convey products, featuring an accelerated Smith-Waterman algorithm, will be demonstrated at SC09 in Mitrionics Booth 1006.
"The Convey HC-1 system's memories and memory bandwidth makes it particularly well suited for accelerating a number of modern bioinformatics algorithms," says Stefan Mohl, chief science officer and co-founder of Mitrionics. "Our implementation of the Smith-Waterman algorithm for the HC-1 demonstrates the potential of the system."
Mitrionics products allow software developers to use FPGA-based software acceleration, without having to deal with the complexities of hardware design. Convey designs hybrid-core computer systems that make use of FPGAs to achieve loading personalities (application-specific instruction sets). However, unlike FPGA accelerators that are I/O based or non-coherently attached, the Convey HC-1 features cache-coherent, virtual memory to increase application performance and programmer productivity.
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