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Mitrionics' FPGA Supercomputing Platform Taught at McGill University
Graduate Level Course in Parallel Programming With Mitrion-C Completed in Q4/06: Mitrionics, developer of the Mitrion Virtual Processor and software-centric Mitrion-C programming language for FPGA Supercomputing acceleration, today announced that its Mitrion Platform has been used during the fall 2006 semester at McGill University to teach graduate level students parallel programming techniques for application acceleration utilizing FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays). The course, titled "Custom High Performance Computing Architectures," is being taught by Professor Warren Gross of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and utilizes the Mitrion-C programming language to teach its students. About fifty percent of the course is based on learning and utilizing the Mitrion Platform and students are required to successfully write and demonstrate an FPGA-accelerated application at the end of the semester. 
To increase accessibility of its FPGA Supercomputing development platform and accelerate application development, Mitrionics recently announced the availability of a new Mitrion Software Development Kit -- Personal Edition (SDK-PE) at no charge from www.mitrionics.com. This makes it is easy for academic institutions, professors and students to download the SDK and get started with their development work. The Mitrion Platform is the leading technology for FPGA Supercomputing application acceleration and is used by many of the world's most prominent government and academic institutions involved in supercomputing. "As our Mitrion Platform continues to gain broad industry acceptance and adoption, it is especially exciting to see students from the prestigious McGill University utilize our Mitrion-C language as part of their engineering coursework," stated Anders Dellson, CEO of Mitrionics, Inc. "This marks an important step in the growth and evolution of FPGA-accelerated applications and we look forward to seeing the results of this new generation of developers." "The Mitrion Platform and Mitrion-C programming language is well suited for teaching how to develop accelerated applications because it is very software centric," said Warren Gross, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University. "The graduate students in the class were able to successfully develop an accelerated application as part of their course grade."