SYSTEMS

DRC Computer Corporation, a leading provider of coprocessor systems, today announced new software tool partners, CebaTech, DSPlogic, Impulse Accelerated Technologies, Mitrionics, and Synplicity are joining with existing partner Celoxica to extend programming expertise to the DRC Reconfigurable Processor Unit (RPU) and development environments. At this week’s Supercomputing show, DRC and its tool partners are driving adoption of reconfigurability by showcasing solutions that deliver 10- to 200-time improvements in high-performance applications. “We are committed to providing complete system-level reconfigurable solutions that address the power, heat, performance, density and cost issues associated with today’s high-performance computing,” says Larry Laurich, CEO of DRC. “To that end, we will continually seek out and partner with industry leaders and innovators who will help us achieve this goal and drive the expansion of coprocessor-based systems for supercomputing.” At the Supercomputing 2006 trade show, DRC has been invited to participate in AMD’s booth, #1413, and will be demonstrating the power of its new RPU110 family for visualization and Smith-Waterman. DRC will also show its new DS2000 for application development on large clusters of CPUs and RPUs. In addition, DRC and its partners are discussing how their tools work together to modify application subroutines to run in hardware for dramatic improvements in system performance. Here is what DRC’s partners are saying: CebaTech “CebaTech’s ability to take any untimed ANSI C software directly to hardware in a dramatically shortened design cycle opens up exciting possibilities for reconfigurable design and coprocessor-based solutions,” said Tim Sullivan, president of CebaTech. “We are excited to be working with DRC to demonstrate how computationally intensive software applications benefit dramatically from hardware acceleration.” For more information visit its Web site. Celoxica According to Jeff Jussel, Celoxica’s Americas general manager and VP of marketing, “Celoxica is committed to providing the software and kernel functions necessary to enable FPGA-based coprocessing. Our strong partnership with DRC allows us to deliver a complete solution for acceleration, as much as 200 times, for applications in industries such as finance, life sciences, and oil and gas exploration.” In its booth at SC06, #501, Celoxica will be demonstrating algorithm acceleration using a DRC development system on a video processing application compiled from C algorithms to the FPGA RPU using its DK Design Suite environment. For more information visit its Web site. DSPlogic “We are very pleased to expand the portability of the Reconfigurable Computing Toolbox to include DRC’s leading-edge computing platforms,” says Mike Babst, president of DSPlogic. “I am confident that our rapid graphical programming language will help software programmers, without any knowledge of hardware design, extract the highest performance from the DRC platforms.” For more information visit its Web site. Impulse Accelerated Technologies “We are currently developing support within Impulse C for the DRC RPU platform,” said Brian Durwood, co-founder of Impulse Accelerated Technologies. “We expect our solution to be available in 4-6 weeks.” For more information visit www.impulsec.com. Mitrionics “We are pleased to announce support for DRC’s Reconfigurable Processor Unit and coprocessor systems,” said Anders Dellson, CEO of Mitrionics, Inc. “As scientists and researchers are gaining more choices for FPGA-based systems on which to run their supercomputing applications, Mitrionics is committed to supporting these systems with our development platform and Mitrion Virtual Processor. We expect DRC will make a strong contribution to our growing market segment.” Visit Mitrionics at Supercomputing 06 in Booth #2045. For more information visit its Web site. Synplicity Synplicity is supporting DRC’s Reconfigurable Processor Unit with its Synplify Pro software, the industry’s leading FPGA synthesis solution. “DRC has developed innovative technology that will expand the use of FPGAs in the high-performance computing (HPC) market,” stated Andy Haines, senior vice president of marketing at Synplicity. “Synplicity views the HPC market as a compelling growth opportunity for our company and the industry as a whole. We are excited to partner with DRC to help fuel the growth of FPGAs in compute-intensive applications, and expose new customers to our Synplify Pro software.” For more information visit its Web site.