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News Release from: Celoxica
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 17 November 2006
FPGA based coprocessors on show
Celoxica has been demonstrating the acceleration of compute intensive oil exploration applications at Supercomputing 06.
Celoxica has been demonstrating the acceleration of compute intensive oil exploration applications at Supercomputing 06 The real-time demonstration shows massive performance acceleration using a combination of FPGA based coprocessors, high speed interconnect and Celoxica's enabling design tools and IP
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 6 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Celoxica has announced the DK1 design suite, software that enables a fundamentally new approach to the design of electronic hardware.
Celoxica offers a free go at FPGA design
Celoxica DK1 Eval is a free evaluation version of the Celoxica DK1 design suite that is restricted to compilations for simulation only, with no EDIF or VHDL output capability.
The demonstrated algorithm performs finite difference acoustic modelling for a seismic application.
Using Celoxica's DK Design Suite, the algorithm is off-loaded from the main processor and compiled from C software code to an FPGA based parallel coprocessor.
The demonstration compares the performance of the algorithm on a stand-alone processor and an FPGA coprocessor.
In this example the Celoxica architected solution was implemented into a Xilinx Virtex 4 FPGA and achieved a 16x performance improvement on an algorithm provided by oil industry leader Total.
"We believe that FPGA technology will allow us to achieve much greater performance levels than are possible with processor-only based systems", said Laurent Derrien, HPC Team, Total.
"Initial results have been very promising, and with our partner Celoxica, we are looking forward to continued progress in the area of accelerated computing", said Henri Calandra, HPC Team, Total.
"This benchmark is the latest data point that shows the capabilities of modern FPGA coprocessors for high-performance computing applications", said Jeff Jussel Vice President of Marketing and General Manager of the Americas for Celoxica.
"The ability to program FPGAs from software throws open the door for application acceleration in the oil and gas industry, as well as for applications in other compute intensive industries such as finance and the life sciences".
Celoxica recently released the RCHTX card that provides the acceleration platform for FPGA-based coprocessing.
Celoxica provides a complete solution from software compilation, RTOS kernels for FPGA computing as well as their signature compilers that take C software applications and compile them to FPGA hardware.
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