Source: SRC Computers
August 23, 2005

SRC Computers Launches Next-Generation Reconfigurable Computing System

Colorado Springs, Colorado -- August 23, 2005 -- SRC Computers, Inc., a leader in reconfigurable computing systems, today announced the availability of its SRC-7 system featuring the first reconfigurable processor with IEEE compliant floating point blocks and accompanying high bandwidth interconnect. The lack of dedicated low latency floating point capability with enough memory bandwidth to prevent stalling has historically been viewed as the last technical barrier to widespread adoption of general purpose reconfigurable computing.

The SRC-7 succeeds the SRC-6 and provides the most powerful, programmer-friendly, reconfigurable, high performance system on the market.

SRC's Carte programming environment allows programmers to use standard ANSI C and Fortran to program its reconfigurable MAP processors with no need for hardware design expertise. The announcement of the SRC-7 was made at the High Performance Reconfigurable Computing Workshop being held at the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center in Fairbanks, Alaska.

The increased performance of the SRC-7 series H MAP reconfigurable processors is highlighted by:

1. The first dedicated reconfigurable double precision floating point capability with.
* 112 double precision floating point operations per clock per processor; and
* 224 single precision floating point operations per clock per processor.

2. The highest per processor.
* Floating point performance;
* Sustained external memory payload bandwidth at 14.4 Gbytes per second;
* Sustained on-board SRAM payload bandwidth at 24 Gbytes per second; and
* Sustained direct GPIO payload bandwidth at 10.3 Gbytes per second

3. The largest per processor.
* On-board SRAM at 80 Mbytes;
* Total on board memory at 2 Gbytes; and
* Reconfigurable logic capacity at 64 Mgates.

4. The capability for high bandwidth mass storage.
* Sustained disk bandwidth 3.6 Gbytes per second;
* 10K random IOPS per assembly;
* 32 Terabytes per assembly;
* Accessible directly from MAP; and
* Addressable through the system's 64-bit virtual address space.

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