Clearspeed Technology Share Discussion Threads

[robson1974] 01/12/2005 16:52

thanks chart looks like it is rolling over?

[taylor20] 30/11/2005 16:19

The depth of your research does you credit robson!

[robson1974] 30/11/2005 13:10

You could say i remain to be convinced on this one.

[robson1974] 30/11/2005 13:09

Typical tech company all jam tomorrow. Wow they won a $2m deal will it make any dent in the yearly $10m loss?

[randv] 29/11/2005 23:47

>Tradx666 - 28 Nov'05 - 19:25 - 182 of 182


Ron is unwell at the moment and is off line for now.

Roy

[taylor20] 16/11/2005 13:47

KBC's comments:

Clearspeed Technology# (CSD) – Major Win – FCAST: Unchanged, REC: CORPORATE#

CSD yesterday announced the exceptionally good news that its technology is to be included in the new Top 10 Supercomputer being delivered to the Tokyo Institute of Technology by Sun and NEC and based on AMD chips.
The system will be the largest in Japan (previous world record holders with Earth Simulator) and is set to be the world's fastest cluster (peak performance). Strategically, this is hugely important for Clearspeed as a calling card in the market: this will be Sun's largest system win to date, beating significant competition at the shortlist stage. We would estimate the deal to be worth an initial c$2m to Clearspeed, plus planned extensions, with the system due to be operational in Spring 2006. Clearspeed is demonstrating at the International Supercomputing Conference in Seattle this week, with its technology appearing on the stands of Sun, IBM, Cray, NCSA, Intel and AMD. It has also released benchmarking results showing a near 4x improvement in Workstation performance with a single board, with system power consumption actually falling.

Research Analyst – Alex Jarvis [phone]

[cockneyron] 15/11/2005 19:21

SC'05 (SuperComputing)is in Seattle at the moment !!!!!

People don't seem to have recognized the importance of this yet. This is going to be Japan's largest supercomputer (faster than the Earth Simulator) and ClearSpeed has a large chunk of it ... that's one hell of a boost for the technology.


I wouldn't be surprised to see further announcements... ClearSpeed have a huge team in Seattle and are represented on most of the major vendor booths...

RON

[cockneyron] 15/11/2005 19:06

Remember there are less than 10million 'free' shares, so if the word gets about it could cause a lot more interest,supply and demand should then give the price a nice lift.


Patrick Evershed of New Star Select Opportunities rates the company highly,
according to comments he made in October, and indeed it is probably still
amongst the fund's top 10 holdings.

Perhaps he will be adding more eh ??

ron

[taylor20] 15/11/2005 16:44

KBC estimate the deal to be initially worth $2million:

[tradx666] 12/11/2005 11:07

Simon,

great news....I shall look forward to seeing my colleagues reviews of their progress. Unfortunately, due to other commitments I couldn't get there this year, or I would have given all a first-hand report..

regards to all

T..

[simon self] 12/11/2005 09:50

Washington State Convention and Trade Centre, Seattle Nov 12-18 2005. sc05.supercomputing.org


ClearSpeed @ Super Computing 2005

Want to see the Advance board in operation? Join us in booth no. 802 at SC05.

Not only can you check out our first public LINPACK demonstration, but you can also see just how power efficient the Advance board is. Think gaining a 4x performance increase in your server or workstation requires a similar increase in your power consumption? You may be in for a surprise!

And if you think one board is cool, just what could you do with two? Our latest DGEMM performance on two Advance boards will also be on view.

You can also see how we transparently accelerate applications such as Mathematica and MATLAB.

If that is not enough, there are also opportunities to see us on the following booths: AMD, CRAY, IBM, Intel, NCSA and Sun Microsystems

SC05 is the premier international conference on high performance computing. Washington State Convention and Trade Centre, Seattle Nov 12-18 2005. sc05.supercomputing.org

[taylor20] 08/11/2005 07:06

Certainly seems to renewed interest in the stock by retail investors over the last couple of days, so somebody believes there will be.

Should help to clear the overhang.

[tradx666] 07/11/2005 22:36

For any lurkers, I understand that CSD are at SC'05 in seattle, let's hope that they have lined up some decent news to attract some attention - as that is what I would do!

regards

T..

[tradx666] 11/10/2005 20:09

For what's worth, I'm told there is solid pent up demand that should bode well once they launch in anger!

regards

T..

[tradx666] 07/10/2005 16:57

I have to say that I expected a bit more comment on their results, and their forward looking statement - which I thought was very bullish..

Now lets see if they can add more HPC integrators to the line-up; which imho will be critical..

regards

T..

[mdrans1] 27/9/2005 16:17

thanks Tradx.
Presentation to analysts with Thursday's results should stimulate more of the same.

[tradx666] 27/9/2005 13:01

Nice PR and press coverage - all bodes well,

regards

T..


September 23, 2005
ClearSpeed Claims Fastest Chip Crown
By David Needle


Who's got the fastest chip -- IBM? Intel (Quote, Chart)? Sun (Quote, Chart)? AMD (Quote, Chart)?

Those of you who answered ClearSpeed Technology can give yourselves a pat on the back. That's the claim anyway. The fabless semiconductor company plans to demonstrate its CXS600 dual-chip board, running at 50 Gigaflops and a mere 25 watts, at the High Performance on Wall Street conference Monday in New York.

A single Gigaflop equals a billion floating-point computer instructions per second, and it's typically used to measure supercomputer performance.

Designed for computing or math-intensive applications, the board fits standard PCI-X slots for workstations or servers or a cluster. Much as a graphics coprocessor speeds the performance of video games, ClearSpeed is designed to do the same in such areas as financial, life sciences, computational chemistry, biology and computer-aided design for fluid dynamics.

"There is no one in the ball park close to our performance," Mike Calise, president of ClearSpeed, told internetnews.com. "We've been endorsed by both Intel and AMD as a means to solve fundamental problems with heat and power dissipation."

ClearSpeed has not yet announced who will be selling boards based on the CXS600, but Calise said there would be announcements from "major OEMs" this year and next. Pricing for add-in boards will be up to the individual OEMs as their products come to market. "I can guarantee you the prices per gigaflop will be unmatched in the industry," said Calise, adding that a good estimate of pricing would start in the low five figures.

Some high-performance specialty chips have required developers to write new software, an expensive, time-consuming process ClearSpeed means to avoid.

"ClearSpeed provides a library interface that enables any of the standard x86 compute-intensive packages to run without ISVs (define) making any changes," said Nathan Brookwood, analyst with Insight64. "You combine that with the performance -- that's pretty cool stuff."

The CXS600 supports standard calls to the low-level math functions used by applications such as MatLab by The Mathworks and Mathematica by Wolfram Research.

"If you look at all the multicore announcements coming out, the industry is inherently going to parallel processing, because you can get phenomenal results," said Calise.

Way beyond dual-core, the ClearSpeed chip features 96 processors running at "only 250 MHz" each, but gain super speed performance running in parallel.

The need for faster mathematical processing is particularly acute in corporations having to deal with the government's complex Sarbanes-Oxley regulations. Calise also mentioned research into new drugs and the human genome as other likely applications.

"And then you have the Wall Street traders who've seen a doubling of their data sets. They're looking at grid technology, but this makes it all doable at the desktop or workstation level."

IBM (Quote, Chart) has said its forthcoming cell processor will be theoretically capable of running as fast as 256 gigaflops per second. It's slated to first appear in Sony's PlayStation 3 game system later next year, although it's also expected to have commercial applications.

IBM is the foundry supplier to ClearSpeed.

"Cell is designed as a 32-bit device and as a standalone processor, so it'll be competing more against RISC solutions," said Calise. "We're 64-bit and work integrally with the main CPU, so we're really in a different market."