Mitrionics' Chief Scientific Officer to Discuss Acceleration Technologies & Hybrid Computing Strategies at IDC HPC User Forum

Mitrionics(TM), Inc., developer of the Mitrion(TM) Software Acceleration Platform and the Mitrion Virtual Processor, today announced that Stefan Möhl, Mitrionics' co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer, will make a presentation to discuss different acceleration technologies, advantages, and disadvantages at the IDC HPC User Forum this April 14-16, 2008 in Norfolk, Virginia. Mr. Möhl's presentation titled, "What is next for accelerators? Turf war or collaboration," will discuss acceleration platforms and strategies for Green Computing and Hybrid Computing based on FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays), GPGPUs (General-Purpose computation on GPUs), and multi-core CPUs. The HPC User Forum is an initiative developed by IDC (International Data Corporation) to promote the interests of HPC users in industry, government, and academia and is an extension of IDC's long-standing commitment to the global HPC community.

"FPGA-accelerated computing has gained significant market momentum as major processor companies and system vendors have increased their support for FPGAs," said Stefan Möhl, co-founder and chief scientific officer of Mitrionics, Inc. "But long-term success in the acceleration industry and broader market adoption will depend on the leveraging the strengths of all the different hardware acceleration platforms, and be able to effectively utilize them together in a hybrid computing strategy, where each type of processor performs the functions best suited to its architecture."

About the Mitrion Platform and Mitrion Virtual Processor

The fine-grained, massively parallel Mitrion Virtual Processor is the core of the Mitrion Platform. It runs software written in the Mitrion-C parallel programming language in FPGAs and completely eliminates the need for the programmer to master hardware design. The Mitrion Virtual Processor has a unique architecture that lets it be adapted to each program it is running in order to maximize performance. Together with the Mitrion Software Development Kit, it offers a unique solution for developing supercomputing applications for FPGAs on a true software level. This dramatically reduces the total development costs for FPGA-based software acceleration, and more importantly, enables the whole supercomputing industry to benefit from FPGA application acceleration.

About Mitrionics

Founded in 2001, Mitrionics, Inc. is the technology leader in FPGA-based Accelerated Computing providing higher processing power and a greener computing alternative, because of lower energy consumption, than clusters of computer systems. The Mitrion Software Acceleration Platform, including the Mitrion Virtual Processor, demonstrates its potential in the Mitrion Accelerated BLAST-n, running 60x faster compared to 2.8GHz AMD Opteron Processor1. The Mitrion Platform is unique from any other FPGA programming solution, because it eliminates the need for circuit design skills, thus making FPGA performance accessible to scientists and developers all over the world. Mitrionics has key industry relationships with Cray, DRC, Intel, Nallatech, SGI and XtremeData. For more information, visit the company Web site at www.mitrionics.com, or call 408-966-8500, or email: info@mitrionics.com.

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