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SRC Computers, Inc. has shipped the latest version of its SRC-6 computer system to George Washington University (GWU). This new MAP-based system with Hi-Bar Switch and Common Memory has 10 times the performance of GWU's existing SRC system, which was delivered just 2 years ago. The research team, which is led by Dr. Tarek El-Ghazawi, will be using the new technology for computer security and image processing applications as well as for support of doctoral students' research into operating systems and programming models for scalable reconfigurable computers. According to Dr. El-Ghazawi, the previous SRC system was shown to achieve orders of magnitude improvement in performance with a high degree of ease of use for many useful applications. At the 2004 MAPLD Conference held in Washington D.C., Dr. Duncan Buell of the University of South Carolina, and a user of the GWU system, had this to say about SRC's technology: "We believe that this represents a watershed event in the history of computing. We have taken an extant implementation in a high-level language; we have maintained a process of high-level language programming, and have achieved the maximum possible processing rate...The era of effective programming of a reconfigurable computer has arrived." According to Jon Huppenthal, President and CEO of SRC Computers: "GWU was the first customer for our previous generation systems and we are very happy that their experience with our products has led them to want to acquire the latest model. GWU's input over the last several years has led to significant product improvements and feature additions and we trust that this relationship will continue well into the future." MAP is a general purpose reconfigurable Direct Execution Logic processor that offers orders of magnitude improvement in performance, volume and power consumption as compared to high-end microprocessors. SRC currently produces general purpose computing systems based on its IMPLICIT+EXPLICIT architecture with MAP for embedded, workstation and high-end server markets, and has had systems in the field for several years. All SRC systems are software compatible and are programmed using standard high-level languages and programming models under SRC's Carte (pronounced KAR-te) programming environment, making the systems very programmer friendly.