Sun Offering ClearSpeed's Advance Accelerator Boards 66 GFLOPS of Sustained Double Precision Matrix Multiply (DGEMM)
New to Sun's price list are ClearSpeed's Advance accelerator boards. Designed for high performance computing applications, these boards are minimal power consumers and can be deployed in servers, clusters and workstations to boost performance efficiently.
The Advance X620 is a standard height, two-thirds length PCI-X board designed for new and existing systems whose architecture incorporates the PCI-X standard.
The Advance e620 is a complementary and smaller form factor PCIe based accelerator.
"HPC is a major growth area and many of our clients will benefit from the addition of application acceleration technology to their data centers," commented Dr. Simon See, director of HPC Solutions - Systems Practice at Sun. "Sun's expertise in system design, configuration, and support will bring ClearSpeed's technology to them in a low risk, energy-efficient solution."
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