Clearspeed Technology Share Discussion Threads

[britishbear] 07/10/2004 14:47

Just passing through :-))

[tradx666] 07/10/2004 14:42

BB,

you in?

regards

T..

[britishbear] 07/10/2004 14:30

Good article for you. All about the new chip.



Taster....

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ClearSpeed Technology has doubled the performance of its high-performance computing co-processor for scientific workstations and server clusters.

It has incorporated 96 separate processing cores on a single chip, the company said at the Fall Processor Forum.

The new CSX600 co-processor runs at 250MHz and can achieve 50G Flops (floating point operations per second), a significant improvement over the 200MHz CS301. The older chip produced 25G Flops of performance when added to workstations or servers through a PCI card.

[ch8rlie2000] 07/10/2004 12:41

From today's Times:

Talking points

Smaller stock to watch

ClearSpeed Technology, the semiconductor developer that floated on AIM at 96p in July, jumped 16p to a record 160½p on presenting performance data on its first commercial microprocessor at an industry conference in San Jose, California. The CSX600 chip is due to be launched in the first quarter of next year.

[tradx666] 07/10/2004 09:29

t20,

precisely, so it kind of implies that a 'deal' has been done, or very close too?!

Will Cray be their first 'official' OEM???!!

Interesting few months ahead here..apart from the launch doc, I wonder when they will do a covering note from their brokers/analysts..?

regards

T..

[taylor20] 07/10/2004 08:53

The presentation on the Clearspeed website, shows that the CSX600 can be used to boost the XD1's 50GFlop performance up to 250GFlops, by adding 4 CSX600 cards.

[tradx666] 07/10/2004 08:23

t20,

I agree. The link also shows that demand for performance in the HPTC sector is ever present..I wonder who will adopt their solution first..?



It would be interesting to see this guys enter the Top500 with a bang!!

I have no idea how far this can run up, but I suspect it won't reach any resistance until it has at least doubled!

regards

T..

[taylor20] 07/10/2004 08:18

Still in demand,

At this rate the directors are going to be forced to sell some stock.

[taylor20] 06/10/2004 14:23

Bit more in :

ClearSpeed announces 64-bit floating-point processor

BRISTOL, England - Fabless chip company ClearSpeed Technology plc has announced details of its second processor, the CSX600, a follow-on from the CS301 announced in November 2003.

The new chip, which is expected to deliver up to 50 GFLOPS for 5 watts power consumption, is expected to become available before the end of the first quarter of 2005, ClearSpeed said Wednesday (Oct. 6)...

[tradx666] 06/10/2004 11:48

t20,

the key issue will be the bangs for buck argument...and of course a roadmap that is believeable! Also if they don't move onto 64bit fast, then the breadth of their TAM will be limited.

As for the bandwidth issue, it will heavily depend upon the interconnect technology, as latency issues will be to the front here..

Guess we will know soon enough, but I've been buying on the hype and will sell when the 'fact' gets closer!

regards

T..

[taylor20] 06/10/2004 11:34

Short article in

UK processor developer ClearSpeed has given details of its first commercial device, with a huge 50Gflops of processing available.

Moreover the CSX600 will consume just 5W of power when running at full speed, said Tom Beese, chief executive at the Bristol-based firm.

The peak processing speed is available on double precision floating point data, with 25Gflops sustained performance when running a matrix multiply, said Beese. The firm's first demonstration chip was a 32-bit, single precision device.

Off chip memory bandwidth is 11Gbyte/s, which, said Beese, answers criticism levelled at the CS301 demonstrator with just 1.6Gbyte/s bandwidth...

...Production is scheduled to start in the first quarter of next year.

[taylor20] 06/10/2004 09:07

Surprisingly positive reaction, have to admit to adding to take advantage of the hype!

[tradx666] 06/10/2004 08:59

It looks like they are really going to do it!!!

RNS Number:7587D
ClearSpeed Technology plc
06 October 2004


Enquiries:

Tom Beese, CEO tel: [phone] (on 6 October)

ClearSpeed Technology plc tel: [phone] (thereafter)

John Bick, Holborn tel: [phone]



ClearSpeed Technology plc

("ClearSpeed" or "the Company")


First Commercial Processor - the CSX600
World's highest performance microprocessor


Bristol, UK, October 6, 2004 - ClearSpeed Technology today announces details of
its first commercial microprocessor, the CSX600. In a presentation at the Fall
Processor Forum in San Jose, California, one of the world's key semiconductor
industry conferences, the Company will be presenting performance data showing
the new processor to be the highest performing product of its kind. The new
chip, which delivers up to 50 GFLOPS for just 5 watts power consumption, is
expected to become available by the end of Q1 2005.

The CSX600 is designed as a co-processor for accelerating PC servers,
workstations, clusters, blades and servers. Initial applications are expected
to be in life sciences, financial modeling, geophysical computation, scientific
computing, military and aviation among others.

Commenting, Tom Beese, CEO of ClearSpeed, said:

"For scientists, researchers and engineers, what was previously impossible can
now become possible. We listened to what our major OEM's and their customers
were telling us. As a result, we have developed the CSX600 to deliver the
highest level of performance and power efficiency available, in most cases
creating a minimum 10 fold increase in performance per watt. The impact of this
will be to enable OEM's to deliver new levels of cost effective high performance
systems.

"We've been pleased by the early interest shown by systems companies and believe
that the announcement of CSX600 will provide further momentum in our business
development ahead of the availability of the chip."

ClearSpeed is working with customers and the open-source community to port and
accelerate mathematically intensive codes such as complex Monte Carlo
algorithms, GROMACS molecular dynamics, and other math libraries such as BLAS.
Software vendors can use ClearSpeed's C compiler and tool suite to significantly
increase the computational capabilities of their own proprietary code base.


Technical Summary

* 50 GFLOPS 32/64-bit, 25 GMACS 16-bit fixed point
* 96 Gbytes/s bandwidth to on-chip memory
* 11 Gbyte/s off-chip bandwidth
* 64-bit flat address space, 48-bit physical
* Gluelessly daisy-chain multiple devices for higher performance
* Programmed in C with a familiar, simple programming model
* Less than 5W typical


The CSX600 offers 64-bit, IEEE 754 double-precision floating point reaching 50
GFLOPS peak and 25 GFLOPS sustained (DGEMM) running at just 5 Watts. ClearSpeed
has accomplished more than a doubling of the performance of its previous chip,
the CS301, while adding significantly more I/O and memory bandwidth and still
maintaining the same 10 GFLOPS per Watt power efficiency.


About ClearSpeed

ClearSpeed's programmable processors have been designed to meet the requirements
of the world's most compute-intensive applications, enabling supercomputing
capabilities on affordable platforms including clusters and workstations. The
technology addresses the problems of power consumption and heat generation
within processors that are becoming limiting factors for successfully meeting
the processing needs in compute intensive applications, while significantly
reducing the total cost of ownership against existing solutions. Designed as
co-processors to be used alongside general purpose processors in High
Performance Computing (HPC) applications, certain major manufacturers of general
purpose processors have confirmed that they regard ClearSpeed's products as
complementary to their own. ClearSpeed's demonstration processor, the CS301,
was launched in October 2003. ClearSpeed was established in 1997 and currently
employs 42 people. The Company is based in Bristol in the UK and Los Gatos,
California and has over 69 patents granted and pending. For more information on
ClearSpeed, visit www.clearspeed.com.



ends


This information is provided by RNS
The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
END

[taylor20] 05/10/2004 17:24

Their presentation is towards the end of the morning session:

"A 50-GFLOPS Processor for Scientific Computing and DSP
presented by Simon McIntosh-Smith, Director of Architecture, ClearSpeed Technology Ltd"

So we won't hear anything until after close.

Don't really expect to have any affect on the shareprice, they were over subscribed for the float, so they have no need to woo any new investors.

[tradx666] 05/10/2004 16:08

Ch8rlie2000,

you at the event..? Or inside the company?

:-)

p.s. I am in..but beleive the reality will not match the hype..

Would love to be wrong for obvious reasons..

regards

T..

[ch8rlie2000] 05/10/2004 12:52

Announcement on the successful commercialisation of the chip being made tomorrow at the Fall Processor Forum in San Jose. It will be interesting to see the effect of that on the Share Price. Onwards and Upwards I hope

[tradx666] 22/9/2004 21:21

taylor20,

yep, sorry, I must have!!

Interesting times ahead here..

[taylor20] 13/9/2004 22:04

Tradx666,

No, Sorry must be mistaking me for another Taylor?

[tradx666] 13/9/2004 21:35

Well chaps, I hear word that they have done a deal with Cray, could be nonsense of course...I guess we will know soon enough.

regards to all

T..

p.s. Taylor20 - you still with Quadrics?

[justjim37] 11/9/2004 10:09

taylor20.
Looks like it's just me and you holding CSD.
As ever be lucky,
Jim

[taylor20] 10/9/2004 10:55

Still in demand, large number of small buys trickling in, could be some news soon?

[justjim37] 12/8/2004 17:11

Nice to see Fidelity increasing their holding.

[taylor20] 01/8/2004 23:16

I don't think the company will have any problem incorporating and testing the new chip within 18 months, this company has no shortage of skilled and dedicated technical staff.

However one has to wonder about their management, when they flipped from graphics to communications and now to scientific applications as their main market.

Considering the company has a market cap of nearly 35million, is what I find amazing - not even going to break even for 2 years.

Can't see their being much in the way of rumours or juicy licensing contracts, if their main 'big' customer is Lockhead Martin, defence contractors tend to be a bit tight on this sort of thing.

Yes have to agree the IC article (like so many) was shallow and far from factually accurate - but then they are only journalists.

[tradx666] 31/7/2004 12:03

taylor20,

Comparing CSD with Wolfson is frankly rediculous. The 'success' of the float simply shows the lack of qualitive knowledge by both the institutional investors or the covering brokers. " does not expect significant revenues until the second half of 2005. By 2006, the company is expected to break even."

I look forward to shorting these as soon as the froth dies down.

"With an initial focus on high performance computing and embedded processing applications, he expects that the keenest buyers of the company's products will be US-based systems vendors." Just how many applications use "parallel processing"...how big is this segment?

Who are these US-based systems vendors exactly? This is all total BS...the chances of them incorporating and testing a new chip in less that 18 months is (edited!)..LOL!!

IC are complete morons.

DYOR IMHO etc

regards

T..

[taylor20] 30/7/2004 13:47

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New Issue: ClearSpeed


Fed up with sluggish computers that never seem to work properly - or even at all? Most people who regularly use a computer can probably identify all too easily with that sentiment, which might in turn explain the roaring success of chip designer ClearSpeed's Aim flotation.

Although it had originally hoped to raise just £5m, the offer turned out to be heavily oversubscribed with the result that it is to walk away with over £10m, valuing the company at over £30m. The shares were priced at 96p and have risen to around 107p in early trades. (Latest quote here).

The proceeds will get the superfast microchip ClearSpeed has been developing onto the market, as well as allow it to develop further products. Established in 1997, and backed by private investors since 2002, it is hoping to launch its first commercial processor in November this year. This is a refined version of what appeared in its well-received demonstration processor, the CS301, in October 2003.

The Bristol-based company, which now also has an office in Los Gatos, California, specialises in "parallel processing" which allows microchips to perform multiple tasks simultaneously. The 32-bit chip in the CS301 enhances computers' performance so that they can process very high volumes of data at low power consumption, while also being easily programmable. These microprocessors, which are manufactured by subcontracted third parties, can thus combat the performance-limiting problems of high power consumption and heat generation. (Similar claims were made by Transmeta, a high-profile US start-up attempting to break Intel's stranglehold on the consumer market. Four years after launch, many analysts wonder how much longer it will be around).

Diverse companies such as Lockheed Martin and AWE have both testified to the fact that the combination of power efficiency and high performance will allow significant cost savings. ClearSpeed has also won a £427,000 grant from the Department of Trade and Industry in April to develop a 64-bit chip, which will give even more processing power.

Although its first commercial product is due in November, chief executive Tom Beese, who cut his teeth at Hewlett Packard, does not expect significant revenues until the second half of 2005. By 2006, the company is expected to break even. With an initial focus on high performance computing and embedded processing applications, he expects that the keenest buyers of the company's products will be US-based systems vendors.

IC View

The heavily oversubscribed float indicates the high hopes that are held for ClearSpeed – hardly surprising after the success of Wolfson Microelectronics, which floated last October. ClearSpeed seems to have learnt from the mistakes of its previous incarnation, Pixelfusion, but still faces considerable challenges in a market where both consumers and competitors are big and fierce. Wait for the froth to subside