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New Standardized HPC Platform Available to Distribution Channel for Cost-effectively Attacking a Wide Range of Compute-Intensive Apps:

XtremeData has joined the HP Accelerator Program. XtremeData's state of-the-art FPGA acceleration is now available for the rack-mounted HP ProLiant DL165 and HP ProLiant DL185 servers. These are the first In-Socket FPGA accelerator-enhanced standard servers qualified by a tier one server vendor.

XtremeData's XD2000F module, combined with standard HP systems, dramatically increases performance and lowers power consumption in compute-intensive, algorithmic applications including double-precision mathematics, encryption, bioinformatics, financial market data analysis and  military radar systems.
What channel partners are saying:

"Financial IT pros are demanding easy-to-use, low latency, high performance accelerated trading and market data platforms," said, Frank Piasecki, president with ACTIV Financial, Chicago, IL.  "By combining the technologies of XtremeData and a top-tier system supplier like HP, high-performance solutions can easily and cost-effectively be created from off-the-shelf components"

"This is a true enabler for those waiting for easily accessible and integrated FPGA acceleration," said, Mike Calise, executive vice president and US general manager at Mitrionics. "Combined with the Mitrion MVP processor and software development kit, bio-IT pros working on demanding genome and text search algorithms are getting a boost desperately needed for effectively tackling the exponential growth in their datasets."

"Customers are turning to HPC hardware accelerators to dramatically boost performance while cutting the total cost of ownership, including energy and space savings," said Kent Koeninger, product and technology marketing manager, Scalable Computing and Infrastructure organization, HP. "In the HP Accelerator Program, XtremeData has leveraged HP ProLiant servers to deliver high throughput across diverse solutions such as real-time stock trades and DNA sequencing."

Hardware acceleration technologies are now production-ready products, including XtremeData's FPGA-based, in-socket accelerators.  The HP Accelerator Program, which enables, testing, and benchmarks for third-party accelerators in HP ProLiant servers, is helping to deliver accelerators with dramatically higher performance and reduced energy consumption in a smaller space, and at lower costs for selected applications.

Green Computing Benefits
In addition to dramatic process acceleration there are clear benefits in power and space savings verses the status quo. Advantages include reducing rack space to only one half of the original while requiring less than half the former total system power. (A single accelerated server replaces two non-accelerated servers.  In the heat-reduced accelerated server a 35 watt FPGA replaces over 100 watts used by a general purpose processor.)

"These are the first in-socket FPGA co-processor-enabled HP servers on the market," said Geno Valente, vp sales and marketing at XtremeData, Inc. "They  are an exciting new and proven product for the distribution channel with customers facing high-performance computing needs such as SPAM filtering, video servers, network deep packet inspection and many other types of networking appliances."

In-Socket Module Technology
Bandwidth and latency to main memory can limit accelerator performance.  The XD2000F in-socket accelerator improves this connectivity by plugging into servers via the HyperTransport technology bus at 800 MT/s.  This significantly speeds compute-intensive computer processing and lowers latency of data packets through the system. The HyperTransport bus offers a high-bandwidth, low-latency interface for other processors and memory in dual, quad, and even octal CPU platforms. Placing the XD2000F in one or more of the CPU sockets creates a high-speed link to system memory as well as a fast connection to the host processor without board modifications, while providing a simple hardware integration path. Additionally, the XD2000F maintains full compliance with the space and cooling requirements for AMD Opteron Socket F (1207) processor sockets. By adhering to physical design requirements, XtremeData's accelerator modules are unique in that they fit into any AMD processor socket, regardless of manufacturer.

For more information and system photograph, go to: www.xtremedatainc.com/hp

Price & Availability
The entire XD2000F family of In-Socket Accelerators is available in production quantities now. The XD2000F In-Socket Accelerator based on the HP ProLiant DL165 has a single unit development system price of $20,000 which includes sever,FPGA software design tools, reference design, and support. Please contact us directly or any of our sales partners worldwide at www.xtremedatainc.com/xtremeteam