December 11, 2007
HP plots path to server accelerator madness in '08
HP may have a heck of a lot of goodies prepared for its high-end server customers next year..
By Ashlee Vance, The Register
December 04, 2007
Challenges in High Speed Reconfigurable Computing
Addressing increasing demands for more bandwidth at lower latencies and non-parallelism inherent in certain algorithms.
By Michael Monkang Chu, contributed to Chip Design Magazine
November 20, 2007
GPGPUs and FPGAs are now fully implanted in our brains
The server booster bonanza takes hold.
By Ashlee Vance, The Register
November 09, 2007
Supercomputing 07 looks set to be hot for FPGAs
DRC Adds Impulse C-based Acceleration for their Reconfigurable Processor Unit.
By Clive Maxfield, Programmable Logic DesignLine
November 06, 2007
Cray integrates DRC's FPGA-based RPU in next-generation hybrid supercomputer
Cray XT5 family of supercomputers includes hybrid blade featuring DRC's Reconfigurable Processor Unit (RPU).
By Clive Maxfield, Programmable Logic DesignLine
November 06, 2007
Cray's Barcelona moment arrives with XT5 systems
Cray has taken a supercomputer-sized step toward its goal of providing multiple processor types in a single system with the introduction of its new XT5 line.
By Ashlee Vance, The Register
September 07, 2007
DRC Stakes Claim in Reconfigurable Computing
Larry Laurich is interviewed in an HPCwire feature about using FPGAs as a platform for high performance computing.
By Larry Laurich and HPCwire
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August 24, 2007
Skyrocketing Market Data Message Rates Leading Trading Firms to Consider Hardware Acceleration
With Reg NMS causing more quote message traffic in equities and options volume already exploding, vendors are pushing hardware acceleration to lower data latency.
By Ivy Schmerken, Wall Street and Technology
August 22, 2007
Gentlemen, start your Engines
In the financial market, Exegy, a software provider with an application-level ticker plant for trading, showcases a hardware-accelerated ticker plant utilizing the DRC RPU.
By Nina Mehta, Traders Magazine
July 25, 2007
FPGA-based hardware acceleration of C/C++ based applications
Steve Casselman explains how to accelerate C-based applications by running parallelized code on configurable processors.
By Steve Cassleman, contributed to PL DesignLine
July 20, 2007
Inside the RPU
IT Business Edge interviews Clay Marr, vice president of sales and marketing at DRC Computer, about the DRC Reconfigurable Processor Unit.
By Clay Marr and IT Business Edge
July 13, 2007
Standards-based Reconfigurable Computing for HPC
Reconfigurable computing is poised to break through as a viable solution for a wide range of commercial and HPC applications.
By Michael D'Amour, contributed to HPCwire
July 13, 2007
Hyper-fast coprocessor plugs into Opteron socket
This is not a hoax. A Silicon Valley company has started shipping an FPGA-based coprocessor designed to plug right into an open "socket 940" location on a standard multiprocessor AMD Opteron motherboard running Linux.
First appeared on LinuxDevices.com, reviewed by IT Business Edge
July 10, 2007
COTS Supercomputing: DRC Harnesses FPGAs
DRC takes a COTS approach to the problem of reconfigurable computing for HPC.
By Kevin Morris, FPGA and Structured ASIC Journal
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July 02, 2007
FPGA-based coprocessors simplify ASIC emulation
ASIC emulation has become an increasingly critical part of the design process. Designers have historically had few good options for emulation. Now, many are turning to a new tool: FPGA-based coprocessors.
By Richard Povey, contributed to EETimes
June, 2007
Computing to The Max
In an industry that measures transaction time in milliseconds, Wall Street firms are ratcheting up their IT capabilities to take equities trading to the next level.
By Penny Crosman, Optimize
April 16, 2007
Coming to an FPGA near you
New IEEE 754r standard defines a single data type for integer, fixed- and
floating-point decimal arithmetic in FPGAs.
By Clive Maxfield, EE Times
April 1, 2007
The High-Speed Arms Race on Wall Street Is Leading Firms to Tap High-Performance Computing
Citigroup, Wachovia, Mellon and other major Wall Street firms seeking to take their high-performance computing grids to the next level are considering new products.
By Penny Crosman, Wall Street and Technology
February, 2007
The Soft Machines
The decision by PC processor makers to forge connections to FGPA accelerators has opened up a market for embedded-compute engines styled as appliance and programmable logic may end up being a core part of the PC itself.
By Chris Edwards, The IET, Electronics Systems and Software
January, 2007
Into the Fast Lane
Application-specific processors are helping computers to work harder without consuming massive amounts of energy.
By Chris Edwards, The IET, Networks for Engineers
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