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Celoxica Releases Programming Environment for SGI RASC RC100 Blades; Software Compilation to FPGA Co-Processor Enables Supercomputing Adoption
OXFORDSHIRE, England—(BUSINESS WIRE)—May 8, 2006—
Celoxica (LSE:CXA) today announced software programming
support for the SGI(R) RASC(TM) RC100 blade from Silicon Graphics
(OTC:SGID). Based on SGI's groundbreaking RASC (Reconfigurable
Application-Specific Computing) technology, the RC100 computation
blade packs the power of dozens of supercomputer nodes into a single
blade by leveraging the parallelism of dual Xilinx Virtex 4 FPGAs.
Using Celoxica's DK Design Suite and libraries, the RC100 blades can
be programmed directly by the end user to accelerate custom C software
algorithms, overcoming the traditional barrier to FPGA-based
computing.
The Celoxica environment speeds and simplifies the programming of
FPGA devices from C-language software, enabling the acceleration of
many high-performance computing (HPC) applications by orders of
magnitude over conventional systems. Celoxica's library for the RASC
RC100 provides C-language calls to access all the SGI core functions,
registers, memories and debug resources. The DK Design Suite compiles
these software functions and user algorithms directly to custom
hardware to take full advantage of the parallelism of the FPGA devices
and the performance of the SGI architecture.
Designed for use with award-winning SGI(R) Altix(R) servers, SGI
RASC RC100 blades are used to accelerate mission-critical HPC
applications in markets such as defense and intelligence,
bioinformatics, medical imaging, broadcast media, and oil and gas
exploration. The ability to program the FPGAs from C software,
without the need for traditional hardware development flows, allows
more users to incorporate the RASC RC100 blades in their SGI Altix
servers.
"A robust RASC solution must incorporate full integrated
high-level language development tools," said Bill Mannel, director,
Systems Group, SGI. "Celoxica provides a seamless environment for
programming the RC100 from C algorithms, and through our partnership
with Celoxica, we are enabling the tremendous advantages of
reconfigurable computing to SGI customers."
As a convenience to customers, Celoxica and SGI have also signed a
resale agreement making the Celoxica programming environment for the
RASC RC100 available through the SGI sales force. The complete
supercomputing solution, hardware blades from SGI, and programming
software and support provided by Celoxica, is available directly from
SGI for one-stop purchasing. The combined solution is available
immediately and is currently shipping to SGI customers. Customers
interested in the software programming environment may contact either
SGI or Celoxica for more information.
Jeff Jussel, general manager and vice president of worldwide
marketing for Celoxica said, "As the leader in C-based tools for FPGA
programming, we are dedicated to the rapid adoption of reconfigurable
computing by the HPC market. The Celoxica environment enables software
programming of complex algorithms for FPGA acceleration, and combined
with the SGI RASC RC100 becomes the compiler for a powerful
supercomputing system."
About Celoxica
A leader in electronic system level design (ESL) and FPGA-based
acceleration, Celoxica is enabling the next generation of advanced
electronic products by producing tools, boards, IP and services that
turn software into silicon. Celoxica technology raises design
abstraction to the algorithm level, accelerating productivity and
lowering risk and costs by programming semiconductor hardware directly
from C-based software descriptions. Adding to a growing installed
base, Celoxica provides the world's most widely used C-based
behavioral design and synthesis solutions to companies developing
products in markets such as consumer electronics, defense and
aerospace, automotive, industrial and security. Celoxica is a publicly
traded company on the Alternative Investment Market of the London
Stock Exchange under the symbol CXA. For more information, visit:
www.celoxica.com
Celoxica and the Celoxica logo are trademarks of Celoxica Holdings
plc. Silicon Graphics, SGI and Altix are registered trademarks and
RASC is trademark of Silicon Graphics, Inc. in the U.S. and/or
countries worldwide. All other brand names and product names are the
property of their respective owners.
Contact:
Celoxica Ltd.
Jeff Jussel, 512-795-8170
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VitalCom Marketing & PR
Lou Covey, 650-366-8212
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Neesham PR
Peter van der Sluijs, +44-1296-628180
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