Clearspeed Technology Share Discussion Threads

[standingfast] 16/9/2005 07:50

RNS Number:3582R
ClearSpeed Technology plc
16 September 2005

ClearSpeed Technology plc
Chief Financial Officer appointment

The Board of ClearSpeed Technology plc, the semiconductor company, has appointed
Paul Andrew Webb as Chief Financial Officer with immediate effect.

Paul Webb, 57 has extensive operational and financial expertise and experience
having worked for a wide range of domestic and multinational technology
companies.

For the last three years Paul has worked at Surface Technology Systems plc, a
technology-led AIM listed plc, operating globally in the leading edge
semiconductor capital equipment sectors. He joined as interim Finance Director
was promoted to Customer Support and Operations Director and became Deputy Vice
Chairman from February 2004.

From 1995 to 1999, Paul was Director of Finance and subsequently Chief Operating
Officer at MicroProse Ltd/Hasbro, the NASDAQ quoted software developer and
publisher.

Previously Paul worked for 14 years with Mitel Telecom, a North American
business telecommunications group, serving as European Financial controller then
Vice President Finance, Europe and Asia and finally as Vice President European
Operations.

Directorships in the last five years:
Surface Technology Systems plc
STS GmbH
STSystems (USA) Inc
Dica Technologies Limited (previously Equiinet Limited)*

* Dica Technologies Limited went into administrative receivership and voluntary
liquidation in the 12 months period following Directorship

There are no further disclosures to be made in accordance with Rule 15 and
schedule 2(g) of the AIM Rules.

David Sebire, Chairman, ClearSpeed, commented:

"We are pleased that someone of Paul's calibre is joining us. I am confident
that his expertise in managing the rapid growth of emerging technology companies
and international experience will make a valuable contribution to ClearSpeed".

16 September 2005

[simon self] 14/9/2005 09:11

Notice of Results

RNS Number:1464R
ClearSpeed Technology plc
12 September 2005





ClearSpeed Technology plc

Interim results notification


ClearSpeed Technology plc, the semiconductor company, will announce interim
results for the six months ended 30 June 2005 on Thursday, 29 September 2005.

A presentation for analysts will be held at 9.30am on Thursday 29 September 2005
at the offices of College Hill Associates, 78 Cannon Street London EC4.

[tradx666] 30/8/2005 07:47

Thought this was worth repeating!

regards

T..

ClearSpeed Demos Dual-Core Processor at IDF

ClearSpeed Technology demonstrated the company's dual co-processor CSX600 Advance board at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF). ClearSpeed and Intel gave a joint technical presentation to showcase how ClearSpeed's CSX600 Advance board can further enhance applications that are using the Intel Math Kernel Library (Intel MKL) to maximize their performance on Intel processors.

"The Intel MKL is a powerful tool for math developers and software companies in the high performance computing arena and we are thrilled to have the opportunity at IDF to show how the ClearSpeed CSX600 Advance board can help these developers further increase their application performance," said Tom Beese, ClearSpeed CEO.

The Intel MKL is a set of thread-safe, mathematical functions for engineering, financial and scientific applications requiring high performance on Intel platforms. Intel MKL BLAS functions such as DGEMM are already utilized by a large number of popular commercial applications. These applications, such as Wolfram's Mathematica, can now automatically use the CSX600 Advance board's off-load capability without requiring source code changes and hence gain additional acceleration with limited additional power consumption from the CSX600 Advance dual-chip board's 50 Gigaflops (GFLOPS) sustained performance at about 25 Watts.

"We're pleased to have ClearSpeed represented at IDF in the PCI Express Technology Community as one of the companies that provide complementary products to Intel processors in workstations and clusters," said Jim Pappas, director of initiative marketing for Intel's Digital Enterprise Group. "The Intel Math Kernel Library incorporates highly optimized, thread-safe, math functions for multiple applications and it is beneficial for companies such as ClearSpeed to provide performance enhancing optimizations."

ClearSpeed's exhibition in Intel's PCI Express Technology Community signifies the company's commitment to ensuring the industry standard interconnect is on the company's product roadmap.

"We are delighted to be demonstrating with ClearSpeed to show that Mathematica can take advantage of the CSX600 Advance board's acceleration of dense linear algebra functions," says Roger Germundsson, Wolfram Research, director of research and development. "For Mathematica users this technology provides more performance and scalability that looks quite promising."

[mdrans1] 25/8/2005 10:35

"multi-core processing will change the way we think, build, and manage IT infrastructures. Multi-core processors will be at the foundation of everything we do and how we think about computing."
On the end of the last page :-

"There are some highly threaded applications, -- Now, multi-core processors potentially have the ability to run these compute-intensive applications. -- I predict that you will see new products that leverage very dense multi-core processing. For example, CLEARSPEED in the United Kingdom has a new product that tackles scientific applications, and there are other vendors building multi-core, multi-threaded platforms to simplify Java and .NET applications."

[simon self] 25/8/2005 09:52

SHARES MAG 25/08/2005

Potential Sparklers!

ClearSpeed Technology (CSD:AIM)
ClearSpeed Technology is a semiconductor designer that concentrates on the development of highperformance microprocessors for computers. Its processors are designed to chew through enormous amounts of data without needing huge power. Easily programmed too, ClearSpeed's technology provides a
solution to the extreme temperatures generated by high-speed
processors by effectively dissipating the heat. They are also able to
work effectively alongside general-purpose processors, acting as
accelerators in the hi-tech systems in which they are used.
How bright is the future?
The semi-conductor market is enjoying a boom thanks to the legion
of electronic gadgetry on consumers' shopping lists. ClearSpeed saw
losses widen last year, although this was largely expected, and the
key going forward will be generating significant sales growth. This
will not be easy but there are encouraging early signs. The CSX600,
its first commercial microprocessor, was rolled out last October and
is building up a fan base in the industry. The 64-bit device was given
a public airing in June at the International Supercomputer
Conference in Germany to rapturous approval, which egged the
shares 10% higher. Momentum has remained with the stock since.
Profits are not on the horizon quite yet, but a decent hike on the
£250,000 of revenue it posted in 2004 should spark far wider interest
in the shares.

[appalachian] 25/8/2005 09:49

simon self - 24 Aug'05 - 08:17 - 151 of 153


Cheers taylor, the next few months activities should give some direction to where the share price is heading.



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[mdrans1] 24/8/2005 17:48

Today at the Intel forum :-

"The Technology Innovation Accelerated Awards happen tonight, Wednesday, as part of the IDF Think Tank. An IDF first, it's a casual, relaxed way to talk over the day with your peers as you applaud the winners"

"Accelerated" !!! Clearspeed has to be in with a chance.

[mdrans1] 24/8/2005 17:32

Yesterday at the Intel forum :-

https://www20.cplan.com/cv82/sessions_catalog.jsp?ilc=82-9&ilg=english&isort=1&is=%3CISEARCH%3E&ip=yes&itrack=+&itarget_audience=+&itechnology_topics=+&idate=+&isession_id=&iabstract=clearspeed

Performance Acceleration using Intel® MKL and ClearSpeed CSX600
Session Abstract: What you will learn from this session:
• How to use the Intel Math Kernel Library (Intel® MKL) for optimal floating point performance on Intel® platforms.
• CSX600 processor architecture and performance (i.e. sustains 25 GFLOPS running DGEMM while drawing less than 10 Watts)
• ClearSpeed PCI-X cards architecture and performance (two CSX600s and up to 4 GB of DDR2 DRAM)
• Multiple card system installations (for 100s of sustained GFLOPS per node)
• Intel MKL and ClearSpeed hardware acceleration (transparent interception of relevant BLAS, LAPACK and FFT calls from MKL)
• Commercial software applications
• Learn the steps to accelerate off-the-shelf commercial applications such as (tentative) ABAQUS, NX Nastran, MATLAB® and Mathematica without code changes from the software vendors
• Learn how your C and FORTRAN code calling MKL can be accelerated using CSX600 PCI-X cards

[simon self] 24/8/2005 08:17

Cheers taylor, the next few months activities should give some direction to where the share price is heading.

[taylor20] 23/8/2005 18:18

Some coverage for you Simon:

[simon self] 22/8/2005 10:15

Should get some action in the next few days if there is some positive news from the Intel forum starting in San Francisco tomorrow.

[simon self] 08/8/2005 12:11

Clearspeed is an exhibitor at the INTEL Developer Forum August 23 - 25, 2005 San Francisco, Moscone Center West.
This should give Clearspeed more coverage in the trade mags and general press and thus gain some badly needed PR promotion

[wapper] 08/8/2005 11:49

That last trade must be a mistake....£3.58???

[simon self] 07/8/2005 10:01

Building Castles In The Air



By Maynard Paton (TMFMayn)
July 27, 2005


The best growth shares tend to have two features. Firstly (and somewhat obviously), they have the wherewithal to generate long-term increases in earnings. Secondly, the nature of their industry should encourage investors to build 'castles in the air' with their wildly optimistic valuations.

In his legendary book A Random Walk Down Wall Street, Burton Malkiel referred to what John Maynard Keynes had noted on the subject. Malkiel claims it was Keynes' opinion that "the successful investor tries to beat the gun by estimating what investment situations are most susceptible to public castle building and then buying before the crowd."

From the South Sea Bubble to the Internet boom, stock markets have often been prey to manic castle building. The key is to latch onto something new and perhaps a little mysterious, but with obviously great potential. You need something 'new' because investors will know all the problems of anything 'old', which reduces the opportunity for rampant bullishness.

The sort of share to consider?
Try Oxonica (LSE: OXN),
Ceres Power (LSE: CWR).
Or, ClearSpeed Technology (LSE: CSD), this could also be subject to public castle building. The group designs co-processors to speed up standard microprocessors and its market-leading CSX600 product offers "64-bit, IEEE 754 double-precision floating point reaching 25 GFLOPS sustained performance.

[simon self] 04/8/2005 15:13

Well, ramper or not, it has shot up 12p today!

[mdrans1] 04/8/2005 08:54

For Wapper read ramper. Yesterday he put a similar daft one liner on at least one other bb.

[wapper] 03/8/2005 23:48

Announcement due & coming...then just watch this stock fly.Not long to wait.

[tradx666] 27/7/2005 11:37

taylor20,

or you own personal cluster sitting on your desk!

LOL!!

The jap stuff is not new they have been talking about of for ages...the key next step may well be 'designed for single purpose' supercomputers i.e. FPGAS to FPGA super interconnect solutions that can tackle problems in the same 'space'...

In any respect the market and demand for more intensive compute is insatiable, and extending/improving life of a cluster is where CSD will win big imho...

Guess, as always, time will tell.

regards

T..

[taylor20] 26/7/2005 17:28

Most home computers now achieve speeds of several billion flops.

I guess mine needs an upgrade!

[mdrans1] 26/7/2005 15:12

From todays Guardian. OK it's not Clearspeed, but it does explain what a teraflop is. Could be they will be able to reduce the cost below £515m if they add a few Clearspeed chips.:-

How 10 quadrillion sums a second will make computer the world's fastest

Justin McCurry in Tokyo
Tuesday July 26, 2005
The Guardian

In the world of computers, it promises to be the biggest, fastest, and most mindboggling, of them all. Officials in Japan yesterday announced that they intend to build a supercomputer that will operate 73 times faster than the current top computer.

Number one at the moment is IBM's Blue Gene computer, in California, capable of handling 136.8 trillion mathematical calculations a second, or 136.8 teraflops. The Japanese machine, which could cost up to $900m, (about £515m) would leave it standing.

Japanese media reports said officials at the country's education and science ministry were aiming to develop a machine that could operate at 10 petaflops, or 10 quadrillion calculations a second. A computer that large needs tough challenges, and there are several being lined up for it.

In addition to tracking climate changes, this brute of a computer will be used to simulate the formation of the galaxy and to gauge human reactions to new drugs.

If all goes to plan, the machine will be up and running by March 2011.
Scientists rely on supercomputers, operating at what are barely comprehensible speeds, to conduct experiments - which are often simulations - that would take too long if standard hardware were used.

While the US is developing supercomputers to conduct nuclear weapons tests without the need to detonate an actual device, Japan is using the technology to track sea temperatures and rainfall in the hope of more accurately predicting natural disasters such as the fierce, and occasionally deadly, typhoons that sweep across the archipelago during the course of every summer and autumn.

China, with a cautious eye on its neighbour, is developing a system with a top speed of 100 teraflops. Beijing, which regards supercomputers as vital to its competitive credentials, has 19 machines in the top 500. Though it lags behind the US, Germany, Japan and Britain, China is the fastest-growing supercomputing market in Asia.

Japan's Earth Simulator, which occupies a space equivalent to four tennis courts, and is installed at the Earth Simulator Research and Development Centre, in Yokohama, was the fastest supercomputer in the world until it was overtaken by IBM's Blue Gene in 2004.

US machines currently occupy the top three slots in the global ranking of supercomputers, according to a list released last month at the international supercomputing conference, held in Heidelberg, Germany. The machines are powered by racks of thousands of processors, which, ironically, give them the unwieldy look of the very first computers.

Top of the flops
For computers, speed is everything. Speed is measured in "flops" - floating point operations per second, or the number of calculations a machine can complete in a second. Back in the 1970s, when the first supercomputers were being built, machines could achieve speeds of several million flops.
Since then, computers, even home PCs, have raised their speeds at an astonishing rate. Most home computers now achieve speeds of several billion flops.

But this pales in comparison to today's fastest supercomputers, such as IBM's Blue Gene. With 10 petaflops, this new computer, to be built in Japan, could operate at 10 quadrillion calculations a second (a quadrillion is 1,000 million million).

Flop size is important for complex scientific calculations but is also becoming increasingly significant elsewhere. Animation studios - such as the studio Pixar with its movies Toy Story and The Incredibles - are using powerful computers for films. Even the graphics on video games consoles will soon demand high flop levels. The next generation of Sony's PlayStation, due next year, is expected to compute at about two teraflops: that might be 5,000 times slower than Japan's proposed machine, but it's more than enough for most of us.

Bobbie Johnson