Mitrionics Hybrid Development Systems

By DE Editors

Mitrionics (Lund, Sweden) introduced its new line of Mitrion Virtual Processor (MVP) based Hybrid Computing Development Systems.

Hybrid systems are designed for industry, academics, genome centers, government labs, data service providers, and independent software vendors (ISVs) that want to explore the benefits of hybrid architectures in workstations or servers. Genome informatics, Internet data processing, business intelligence, and most non-64-bit floating point HPC applications are often worth accelerating. These integer-centric codes benefit from the variable bit operations, fine-grained parallelism, and limitless internal bandwidth inherent to FPGAs.

Mitrionics Hybrid Development Systems are the first of their kind that integrate an FPGA heterogeneous processor mix with a complete parallel programming environment. The highly parallel MVP executes algorithm code in an FPGA (field programmable gate array) acceleration co-processor, taking advantage of acceleration without the need for hardware design resources. This co-processor is tightly "memory coupled" to what the company calls “the world's fastest multicore CPUs” and since the MVP is part of the chip set on a server motherboard, true hybridization with very high-energy efficiency is now achievable and affordable. “We've done the hard part,” according to Mitrionics’ release.

System availability is said to be in December with prices ranging from $15K to $30K.

For details, contact Mitrionics.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.