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[dafad] 14/11/2006 08:16

ClearSpeed Technology Named One of the ''Top Five Companies to Watch in 2007'' by HPCwire at SC06







ClearSpeed Technology (LSE:CSD), the world leader in floating point
coprocessor acceleration technology for high performance and technical
computing (HPTC), today announced that it has been named one of the "Top
Five Companies to Watch in 2007" by HPCwire, a
Tabor Communications Inc. publication. Other companies named to the top
five included AMD, Microsoft, SGI, and SiCortex. ClearSpeed was also
honoured with the 2006 HPCwire Reader's Choice
Award for the "Most Significant New HPC Hardware Product"
for its RoHS-compliant, smaller form factor Advance™
Accelerator board announced last June.


The winners of the awards – announced last
night in a presentation at SC06 in Tampa, Florida –
were determined by a random poll of HPCwire's
global readers, contributing editors and industry luminaries. ClearSpeed
was selected for several reasons, including its technology, messaging,
focus and management.


According to the official HPCwire announcement of the awards posted on
the HPCwire Web site, the editors stated, "When
partners like Intel applaud you for helping them deliver 'breakthrough'
capabilities, it's a pretty good sign that you are doing something
right. ClearSpeed has an impressive portfolio when it comes to
performance acceleration. It's what they do. And they do it really well.
Increasing performance without impacting the power requirements. Do you
think the HPC community finds this interesting? Darn right they do."


The HPCwire analysis noted that ClearSpeed added a key member to its
management team; Stephen McKinnon joined as chief operating officer in
August 2006. HPCwire editors noted, "McKinnon
is an Intel veteran with more than 25 years of semiconductor industry
experience. He's a pro. So now, add a solid management team to that
powerful combination of technology, messaging and focus, and you have a
very impressive combination that makes ClearSpeed a company worth
watching."


Information on the 2006 HPCwire awards can be found at:


"The importance of high performance computing
to the future of various industries and areas of critical research is
increasingly widely understood," said Tom
Beese, chief executive officer of ClearSpeed Technology. "It
is an honor for ClearSpeed to be recognized as one of a select group of
companies and industry visionaries who are pioneering a new era of
supercomputing architectures."


ClearSpeed Presence at SC06


ClearSpeed Technology will be exhibiting and presenting this week at
SC06 in Tampa, Florida. Demonstrations include record-breaking LINPACK
performance per Watt that scales from desktops to TeraFLOPS;
acceleration for scientific applications with Wolfram Research's
Mathematica®; acceleration for
financial algorithms using Monte Carlo simulation; and ClearSpeed's
software development environment. John Gustafson, ClearSpeed's
chief technology officer for HPC will be delivering a talk on
Acceleration Technologies: Understanding the Differences and Assessing
What's Right for You at 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday,
November 14 at the Tampa Convention Center, Room 13.


Clearspeed, in collaboration with Hewlett Packard and Intel, will
feature ClearSpeed Advance technology at the Intel®
booth (#1523) demonstrating acceleration of a cluster of four Hewlett
Packard Proliant DL380 G5 servers running the high performance LINPACK
benchmark and capable of delivering 364 GFLOPS while adding only 200
Watts to the overall power levels. In addition, ClearSpeed will be
represented in the IBM and Sun booths.


About ClearSpeed


ClearSpeed Technology is a specialist semiconductor company focused on
delivering double precision high performance coprocessors and boards to
be used alongside general purpose processors in the world's
most compute-intensive applications. ClearSpeed's
advanced multithreaded array processing technology provides the ability
to significantly accelerate data-intensive applications at extremely low
power. Products include chips, boards, software tools, applications and
support. ClearSpeed has offices in San Jose, California and Bristol, UK
and has 84 patents granted and pending. For more information on
ClearSpeed, visit www.clearspeed.com.


ClearSpeed Technology (LSE:CSD), the world leader in floating
point coprocessor acceleration technology for high performance and
technical computing (HPTC), today announced that it has been named one
of the "Top Five Companies to Watch in 2007" by HPCwire, a Tabor
Communications Inc. publication. Other companies named to the top five
included AMD, Microsoft, SGI, and SiCortex. ClearSpeed was also
honoured with the 2006 HPCwire Reader's Choice Award for the "Most
Significant New HPC Hardware Product" for its RoHS-compliant, smaller
form factor Advance(TM) Accelerator board announced last June.

¶ The winners of the awards -- announced last night in a
presentation at SC06 in Tampa, Florida -- were determined by a random
poll of HPCwire's global readers, contributing editors and industry
luminaries. ClearSpeed was selected for several reasons, including its
technology, messaging, focus and management.

¶ According to the official HPCwire announcement of the awards
posted on the HPCwire Web site, the editors stated, "When partners
like Intel applaud you for helping them deliver 'breakthrough'
capabilities, it's a pretty good sign that you are doing something
right. ClearSpeed has an impressive portfolio when it comes to
performance acceleration. It's what they do. And they do it really
well. Increasing performance without impacting the power requirements.
Do you think the HPC community finds this interesting? Darn right they
do."

¶ The HPCwire analysis noted that ClearSpeed added a key member to
its management team; Stephen McKinnon joined as chief operating
officer in August 2006. HPCwire editors noted, "McKinnon is an Intel
veteran with more than 25 years of semiconductor industry experience.
He's a pro. So now, add a solid management team to that powerful
combination of technology, messaging and focus, and you have a very
impressive combination that makes ClearSpeed a company worth
watching."

¶ Information on the 2006 HPCwire awards can be found at:


¶ "The importance of high performance computing to the future of
various industries and areas of critical research is increasingly
widely understood," said Tom Beese, chief executive officer of
ClearSpeed Technology. "It is an honor for ClearSpeed to be recognized
as one of a select group of companies and industry visionaries who are
pioneering a new era of supercomputing architectures."

¶ ClearSpeed Presence at SC06

¶ ClearSpeed Technology will be exhibiting and presenting this week
at SC06 in Tampa, Florida. Demonstrations include record-breaking
LINPACK performance per Watt that scales from desktops to TeraFLOPS;
acceleration for scientific applications with Wolfram Research's
Mathematica(R); acceleration for financial algorithms using Monte
Carlo simulation; and ClearSpeed's software development environment.
John Gustafson, ClearSpeed's chief technology officer for HPC will be
delivering a talk on Acceleration Technologies: Understanding the
Differences and Assessing What's Right for You at 4:00 p.m. on
Tuesday, November 14 at the Tampa Convention Center, Room 13.

¶ Clearspeed, in collaboration with Hewlett Packard and Intel, will
feature ClearSpeed Advance technology at the Intel(R) booth (#1523)
demonstrating acceleration of a cluster of four Hewlett Packard
Proliant DL380 G5 servers running the high performance LINPACK
benchmark and capable of delivering 364 GFLOPS while adding only 200
Watts to the overall power levels. In addition, ClearSpeed will be
represented in the IBM and Sun booths.

¶ About ClearSpeed

¶ ClearSpeed Technology is a specialist semiconductor company
focused on delivering double precision high performance coprocessors
and boards to be used alongside general purpose processors in the
world's most compute-intensive applications. ClearSpeed's advanced
multithreaded array processing technology provides the ability to
significantly accelerate data-intensive applications at extremely low
power. Products include chips, boards, software tools, applications
and support. ClearSpeed has offices in San Jose, California and
Bristol, UK and has 84 patents granted and pending. For more
information on ClearSpeed, visit www.clearspeed.com.

[cerrito] 14/10/2006 21:58

taylor 20
thanks for kbc

[jcn1066] 14/10/2006 19:57

Marc Hamilton's Weblog



"If the entire cluster gets 38.18 TFlops without ClearSpeed, and you can get 29.45 TF with only 350 ClearSpeed equiped systems, the ClearSpeed boards are well worth their cost and the 25 watts each board consumes."

[jcn1066] 09/10/2006 19:57

ClearSpeed Accelerates Tokyo Tech Supercomputer

ClearSpeed Technology, a provider of floating point coprocessor acceleration technology for high performance and technical computing (HPTC), announced that the Tokyo Institute of Technology's TSUBAME Supercomputer achieved a ClearSpeed accelerated 47.38 TeraFLOPS (TFLOPS, trillion floating point operations per second) Linpack performance result. The Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) achieved its original goal of becoming the number one supercomputing infrastructure in Asia in June 2006.

"Our team here at Tokyo Tech worked very hard and closely with ClearSpeed to achieve an increase of over 9 TFLOPS performance from our previous result with very little addition in power requirements and no overhead in space," said Professor Satoshi Matsuoka of the Global Scientific Information and Computing Center (GSIC) of Tokyo Institute of Technology. "Acceleration technology is acknowledged to be the wave of the future for supercomputing and we are very happy to be the first in the world to demonstrate this as a fact by improving our position from number seven to number five of the world's Top500 sites."

The TSUBAME cluster comprises 655 Sun Microsystems X4600 servers, each with eight dual core AMD Opteron processors. Each server delivers almost 60 GigaFLOPS (GFLOPS) of performance, and the cluster consumes approximately 800 KW of power in total. The cluster's 360 ClearSpeed Advance accelerator boards each deliver 25.5 GFLOPS of performance, increasing the cluster's overall performance by 24 percent while adding only 1 percent to the overall power consumption. An earlier benchmark using just 350 of the cluster's systems, each equipped with one ClearSpeed Advance board delivered a result of 29.45 TFLOPS representing a performance improvement of almost 50 percent over the non-accelerated systems.

Energy costs have an extremely heavy burden on the total cost of ownership equation since the price of energy over time extends well beyond the price of the system. Using ClearSpeed's acceleration technology coupled with standard systems and components proves that supercomputers need to be constructed without incurring outrageous increases in energy costs to achieve desired performance results.

"Coming in at number 5 with the world's first accelerated system is a major achievement by Professor Matsuoka and his team. It is also an excellent proof point that ClearSpeed's acceleration technology represents a new wave for meeting the intense needs of the growing HPTC market," said Tom Beese, CEO for ClearSpeed. "With performance per watt as a critical metric for meeting supercomputing needs, these results prove beyond any doubt that using ClearSpeed's acceleration technology has enabled TSUBAME to set a completely new standard."

[mdrans1] 09/10/2006 15:34

Peel Hunt - interim update, courtesy of taylor20 :-



"We expect CSD's technology to be bid into further major systems in the second half of the year and furthermore for its technology to be launched into
the volume (commercial) market during Q4."

Q4 = Oct - Dec 06. So any time now, but for today we will just have to make do with the "nice" but possibly "totally meaningless pr" (and an 8% rise).

[tradx666] 09/10/2006 15:04

Nice bit of PR, but of course totally meaningless if they aren't building on this revenue elsewhere.

I guess we will all know if they are or not soon enough.

regards

T..

[mdrans1] 08/10/2006 16:55

Thanks taylor20

Very informative.

[tradx666] 08/10/2006 15:15

mdrans1,

Fair comment, let's see who is right, I suspect all is not as rosy as you think.

regards

T..

[jcn1066] 07/10/2006 18:13

Sun Gets 400 Teraflops Supercomputing Deal with Galaxy Servers




In terms of raw computing capacity, this is the biggest HPC deal that Sun has taken down in its history, and the odds are that it will do many more such deals now that it has embraced the Opterons fully. Back in November 2005, Sun, NEC, and AMD partnered to build what will eventually be an 85 teraflops cluster for the Tokyo Institute of Technology, which at the time was the largest deal it had ever done. The initial cluster is a 50 teraflops machine that is comprised of 655 of the 16-core Sun Fire X4600 servers that were announced this summer, which works out to 5,240 Rev E dual-core processors. To boost number-crunching performance of the TiTech machine (for obvious reasons Tokyo Institute of Technology doesn't use a normal abbreviation), Sun added 360 floating-point accelerator cards from ClearSpeed.

[mdrans1] 07/10/2006 14:21

They are getting some encouraging press and there is support in the 170 to 180 region. Anything is possible, but "easily collapse to around a £1 or less" I don't think so. More like a good time to close your short Trad.

[tradx666] 07/10/2006 11:26

well, it looks like this has further to fall...they need to start annoucing some revenue wins soon or this could easily collapse to around a £1...or less.

regards

T..

[jcn1066] 03/10/2006 23:15

ClearSpeed Looks for Traction With Cooler FLOPS
by Michael Feldman
Editor, HPCwire

[jcn1066] 03/10/2006 22:46

ClearSpeed boosts Dual-Core performance by 64GFLOPS
by Richard Wilson
Tuesday 26 September 2006

ClearSpeed Technology has claimed breakthrough performance for co-processor acceleration of a dual socket, Dual-Core Intel Xeon processor-based server.

Two ClearSpeed Advance boards in a dual socket, Dual-Core Intel Xeon processor-based server, equipped with two 3GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon 5160 processors, delivered 102.6GFLOPS on the Linpack benchmark.

This was 64.6GFLOPS above the base system performance, an increase which required only 50W of additional power.

The Bristol-based company has seen its association with Intel develop over recent months. In August it recruited former Intel man Stephen McKinnon as its chief operating officer.

Intel believes that energy efficiency is a critical for high performance computing. "Specialist suppliers such as ClearSpeed Technology that work with Intel to provide breakthrough capabilities, play an important role in providing the optimum solution to our most demanding customers," said Jim Pappas, director of initiative marketing for Intel.

ClearSpeed has also worked with Intel's HIV lab to create a prototype PCI Express (PCIe) accelerator board.

Earlier this month the Bristol-based co-processor system specialist said its Advance accelerator boards rated at a power consumption of 25W per board added 28.5GigaFLOPS (GFLOPS) each to a cluster of Hewlett Packard Proliant DL380 G5 servers running the Linpack benchmark.

With two Advance accelerator boards in each of the four servers, the cluster performance was increased to over 364 GFLOPS while adding only 200W to the overall power levels.

[jcn1066] 01/10/2006 23:12

Horst Simon Talks Petascale:

[taylor20] 29/9/2006 09:20

AWE Workshop:

[cerrito] 27/9/2006 09:29

taylor 20
Thanks for that
I have been reviewing my holding and perhaps thru inertia I am not selling but they need to move faster to justify their £80m marcap.

[taylor20] 27/9/2006 07:56

ClearSpeed™ Delivers Record Breaking Performance for High Performance Computing

ClearSpeed acceleration technology and Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor 5100 Series together deliver performance of over 100 GFLOPS Linpack in a single system
Intel Developer Forum Fall 2006

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ClearSpeed Technology (LSE: CSD), the only supplier of coprocessor acceleration technology exclusively focused on the high precision, high performance and low power requirements of the high performance and technical computing market, today announced breakthrough performance for a dual socket industry standard system. Two ClearSpeed Advance™ boards in a dual socket, Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® processor-based server, equipped with two 3GHz Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® 5160 processors, delivered 102.6 GFLOPS on the LINPACK benchmark compared with an already impressive 38 GFLOPS delivered by the base system.

In addition to delivering breakthrough performance, the ClearSpeed technology is remarkably power efficient, delivering the additional 64.6 GFLOPS of performance while consuming only 50 Watts of additional power.

"Performance combined with energy efficiency is a critical consideration for the entire industry, and especially so in high performance computing," said Jim Pappas, director of initiative marketing for Intel Corporation. "Specialist suppliers such as ClearSpeed Technology that work with Intel to provide breakthrough capabilities, play an important role in providing the optimum solution to our most demanding customers."

At the Intel Developer Forum, ClearSpeed will also be previewing future technology capabilities that include a demonstration of the prototype PCI Express (PCIe) accelerator board. Working with Intel's IHV optimization lab, ClearSpeed engineers have validated the device driver efficiency for PCIe and realized the performance benefits that PCIe delivers when compared to the previous PCI-X specification.

"We've been extremely impressed with support given by Intel's IHV optimization lab," said Con Bradley, the ClearSpeed Software engineer responsible for PCIe device drivers. "With Intel's assistance we have not only validated and improved our performance but gained an understanding of PCIe that will save several weeks of engineering effort."

ClearSpeed Exhibits and Presentations at IDF

ClearSpeed will be exhibiting in the PCIe community (booth number 327) where it will preview a demonstration of its PCIe accelerator board and also in Intel's IHV community (booth number 323) where it will demonstrate the record breaking ClearSpeed acceleration of a Woodcrest platform system. In addition there will be several opportunities to attend ClearSpeed presentations. ClearSpeed's vice president of applications, Simon McIntosh-Smith, will be speaking on Tuesday, September 26 in Room 2009 on "Accelerating Intel® MKL with ClearSpeed™ Advance™ boards on multi-core systems." Simon will also participate in an Intel industry press panel on Wednesday morning to discuss Intel's new Geneseo initiative. John Gustafson, ClearSpeed's CTO of High Performance Computing will represent ClearSpeed on a panel discussing "The Rocky Road to Petaflop Computing" on Wednesday, September 27 from 10:00-10:50 a.m. in Room 2011.

About ClearSpeed

ClearSpeed Technology is a specialist semiconductor company focused on delivering high-performance coprocessors to be used alongside general purpose processors in the world's most compute-intensive applications. ClearSpeed's advanced multi-threaded array processing technology provides the ability to significantly accelerate data-intensive applications at extremely low power. Products include chips, boards, software tools, applications and support. ClearSpeed has offices in San Jose, Calif. and Bristol, UK and has 84 patents granted and pending. For more information on ClearSpeed, visit www.clearspeed.com.

About the Intel Developer Forum

In its 10th year, IDF is the premier global technology forum for hardware and software developers to confer on Intel-based platforms, technologies and solutions, and the new usage models they enable. Visit www.intel.com/idf for more information.

[tradx666] 19/9/2006 14:20

mdrans1,

Being a realist and moving positions and never supporting a company/stock just for the sake of it, makes (or saves) me money!

Each to their own.

regards

T..

[mdrans1] 19/9/2006 10:34

So that's "half empty" again Trad. Why do you bother?

[tradx666] 19/9/2006 09:20

hmmmmm, I have absorbed them briefly and I'm not impressed. I note the small mark up.

I expect these to fall further in due course.

regards

T..