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XtremeData Corporation today announced its XD1000 socket-compatible coprocessors will be compatible with the Mitrion Virtual Processor and Mitrion Development Platform for FPGA Supercomputing application acceleration. XtremeData develops programmable solutions that can accelerate time-critical algorithms by leveraging the flexibility of Xilinx and Altera field-programmable gate arrays. XtremeData coprocessors plug directly into AMD64 Opteron processor sockets and can be configured to accelerate graphics, XML, floating-point, video transcoding, and other applications. The XD1000 is able to leverage all of the resources available on the motherboard: dedicated DDR memory modules, CPU core power supply, HyperTransport bus to the host Opteron, and device cooling. XtremeData target markets for FPGA application acceleration include imaging, communications, bio-informatics, and enterprise computing. "Mitrionics is pleased to begin working with XtremeData so that our FPGA Supercomputing development platform and Mitrion Virtual Processor can fully utilize the performance and functionality provided by their XD1000 socket-compatible coprocessors," stated Anders Dellson, CEO of Mitrionics, Inc. "It is great to see another serious vendor supporting FPGA application acceleration technologies and appliances. We look forward to working with XtremeData in the future." "Parallelism is the key to FPGA Supercomputing application acceleration, but till now there has been one serious barrier to FPGAs in HPC," said Ravi Chandran, CEO of XtremeData. "The hardware-oriented design flow environment is ill-suited to this market. A higher level of abstraction, via a software-oriented design flow, is necessary for broad adoption. Mitrionics enables this high-level flow with its innovative 'processor' approach to designing FPGAs. We are happy to collaborate with Mitrionics and jointly develop a complete and easy-to-use environment for FPGAs in HPC."