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ClearSpeed Technology
Company typePrivate
IndustrySemiconductor industry
FoundedBristol, UK (2002 (2002))
Headquarters
Bristol
,
UK
ProductsCoprocessors
Number of employees
Less than 10 (2009)
WebsiteClearSpeed.com

ClearSpeed Technology Ltd was a semiconductor company, formed in 2002 to develop enhanced SIMD processors for use in high-performance computing and embedded systems. Based in Bristol, UK, the company has been selling its processors since 2005.[1] Its current 192-core CSX700 processor was released in 2008,[2] but a lack of sales has forced the company to downsize[3] and it has since delisted from the London stock exchange.[4][5]

Products

The CSX700 processor consists of two processing arrays, each with 96 processing elements. The processing elements each contain a 32/64-bit floating point multiplier, a 32/64-bit floating point adder, 6 KB of SRAM, an integer arithmetic logic unit, and a 16-bit integer multiply–accumulate unit.[6] It currently sells its CSX700 processor on a PCI Express expansion card with 2 GB of memory, called the Advance e710. The card is supplied with the ClearSpeed Software Development Kit and application libraries.[7]

Related multi-core architectures include Ambric, PicoChip, Cell BE, Texas Memory Systems, and GPGPU stream processors such as AMD FireStream and Nvidia Tesla. ClearSpeed competes with AMD and Nvidia in the hardware acceleration market, where computationally intensive applications offload tasks to the accelerator. As of 2009, only the ClearSpeed e710 performs 64-bit arithmetic at its peak computational rate.[8]

History

References

  1. ^ a b Tokyo Institute of Technology Selects ClearSpeed for Sun Microsystems Supercomputer[dead link]
  2. ^ a b ClearSpeed Releases New Advance e710 Accelerator Board and CSX700 Processor Archived 2009-09-09 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ a b ClearSpeed sees CEO resign as cost-cutting starts
  4. ^ a b Osborne Clarke advises ClearSpeed on tender offer[permanent dead link]
  5. ^ a b ClearSpeed shareholder communications Archived 2010-03-01 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ CSX700 specification Archived 2009-05-18 at the Wayback Machine
  7. ^ ClearSpeed SDK Archived 2009-05-18 at the Wayback Machine
  8. ^ ClearSpeed Squeezes 96 GFlops Out Of 12 Watts
  9. ^ ClearSpeed demonstrates working silicon of parallel processor // EETimes
  10. ^ Presentation about ClearSpeed Architecture
  11. ^ ClearSpeed demonstrates 64-bit FP coprocessor // EETimes
  12. ^ Dr. John Gustafson Accepts Position with ClearSpeed Technology, 2005
  13. ^ TSUBAME Grid Cluster 7th in the TOP500 Archived 2008-08-20 at the Wayback Machine
  14. ^ Massive Supercomputing - Coping with Heterogeneity of Modern Accelerators
  15. ^ Tanabe, Noriyuki; Ichihashi, Yasuyuki; Nakayama, Hirotaka; Masuda, Nobuyuki; Ito, Tomoyoshi (2009). "Speed-up of hologram generation using ClearSpeed Accelerator board". Computer Physics Communications. 180 (10): 1870–1873. Bibcode:2009CoPhC.180.1870T. doi:10.1016/j.cpc.2009.06.001.
  16. ^ BAE Systems Licenses ClearSpeed’s Next Generation Processor Archived 2008-07-24 at the Wayback Machine // EDA Geek, 2007
  17. ^ ClearSpeed set to raise £20 million in share placing Archived 2012-08-03 at archive.today // EETimes
  18. ^ Petapath announces selection for two PRACE WP8 prototype installations

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