Mitrionics, Inc. For more
information about the Xilinx ESL Initiative, visit www.

About Mitrionics

Mitrionics, Inc. The article is titled "Achieving Scalable I/O Performance in
High-Performance Computing Environments.ibrix.

Parallel computers can run some types of programs far faster than traditional single processor computers, often termed the von Neumann architecture.

Information about writing programs especially for parallel computers is in Parallel_Computing/Programming.

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Xilinx and
participating companies are focused on improving ease of use, quality of
results and interoperability standards through technical collaboration,
cooperative marketing and joint educational activities.

IBRIX Delivers Exceptional Input/Output Performance Density in Live Product Demonstration at LinuxWorld

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IBRIX Fusion(TM) To Demonstrate Over 1 Gigabyte Per Second
Throughput from Single Directory with Only Eight Servers.

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IBRIX(TM), Inc.

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Mitrionics ' unique and revolutionary technology removes the barriers of
high cost, extreme complexity, and long development times to make FPGA
Supercomputing performance accessible to entirely new markets and segments
of scientists and developers. The debugger gives the programmer a hierarchical view of all the
parallel processes and their interactions making it easy to find
programming errors, performance bottlenecks and inefficient code.
"The advent of cluster-based computing architectures is driving
the need for performance and scalability from cluster file system
solutions.

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The Mitrionics technology makes supercomputing performance
acceleration accessible to an entire new market of scientists and
developers previously unable to benefit from it because of high prices,
complex design skills needed, and extremely long development times., inventor of the Segmented File System(TM), today
announced that they will be demonstrating I/O throughput exceeding one
gigabyte (GB) per second from a single directory and single namespace
at the LinuxWorld Conference and Exposition in Boston, February 14 -17,
2005.

-- I/O Servers: Eight DELL PowerEdge 1850 Series with single 3.

-- File System: IBRIX Fusion 1. All other brands, products, or service names may be
trademarks or service marks of the companies with which they are
associated.

A network of computers configured to coordinate on computing problems is also called a cluster.

Information about supercomputers is located in Computers /Supercomputing.

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About Xilinx ESL Initiative

The Xilinx ESL Initiative is a multi-faceted program aimed at proliferating
high-level design methodologies and tool flows for FPGAs.

Some parallel computers are just regular workstations that have more than one processor in them; others are giant single computers with many processors (these are generally referred to as supercomputers); and others are networks of individual computers.

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xilinx. is a wholly owned U. The Mitrion
Platform includes the Mitrion Virtual Processor and Mitrion Software
Development Kit which enable FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) to be
programmed easier and faster than ever before possible, thereby providing
customers with revolutionary computer power for their most critical
applications. This performance is achieved for both read and write operations
with only eight industry-standard Intel-based servers and utilizing
standard interconnects and storage. The IBRIX Fusion Software Suite,
which includes a fully-integrated parallel file system, logical volume
manager and high-availability features, is an economical, easy -to-use,
multi-purpose solution that delivers linear scalability on throughput
and capacity thus enabling increased productivity, faster data
analysis, and more accurate business decisions.2
GHz Intel Xeon(TM) processor 1MB Level 2 cache, and 4GB SDRAM. Its patented Segmented File System(TM) is the
basis for IBRIX Fusion(TM), a suite of software products that comprise
the most scalable, economical, multi-purpose file system solution
available for cluster computing, grid computing, and enterprise
computing environments.

Programmers must explicitly specify how to divide up the computing work between all available nodes.

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-- Network: Gigabit Ethernet with Extreme 400-48t switch.

About IBRIX, Inc.

Both types of computing involve breaking apart a problem into many pieces and assigning each part to a computer, but the nodes of a distributed computer normally not communicate with each other while performing their computations, because they may be great distances apart.

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The Mitrion Software Development Kit -- Includes a compiler, graphical
debugger and code simulator , and processor configurator.

Programs that work on a single-processor computer don't automatically work on a parallel computer.

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com/esl) launched today to broaden the reach of
FPGAs to new application areas by educating the market and reducing the
programming complexity of development platforms. Using the Mitrion-C Programming Language, a
mere 180 lines of code can generate 150,000 lines of VHDL (Very high speed
integrated circuits -- Hardware Description Language).168 GB/second and sustained
read throughput of 1.040 GB/second from a single file system
directory, with only eight servers.

System Configuration

The performance demonstration featured a client/server
architecture contributed by Dell Corporation, a RAID storage array
contributed by DataDirect Networks , and the IBRIX Fusion file system.

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A C/C++ library
is included for easy integration with the application running on the host
CPU. Live
demonstration scheduled for LinuxWorld in Boston.
HBA: QLogic QLA2340.ibrix.

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, the technology leader
in programming FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays ) for supercomputing
software acceleration, announced its participation in the Xilinx ESL
Initiative (www.com/esl. "IBRIX's
segmented architecture provides performance that not only is
exceptional , but also scales with number of nodes and storage under
management.

Achieved results with one single image, single name-space file
system.

-- Storage: One DataDirect Networks S2A8500 couplet with 80
drives (10K RPM, Fibre Channel). It is available to customers operating in cluster,
grid, and enterprise computing environments through leading OEMs.

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PRESS RELEASE Mitrionics Joins Xilinx ESL Initiative to Make FPGA Programming Faster and Easier for Supercomputing Applications

Software written in the Mitrion-C
programming language is compiled into a configuration of the processor. No other file system today offers comparable performance,
scalability, and TCO results .

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This makes writing software to run in FPGAs
quick, easy, and flexible by enabling developers to implement and test
algorithms strictly using a high-level software approach. subsidiary of Mitrionics AB based
in Lund, Sweden. For
more information, visit the company Web site at www.
Operating system: Red Hat(R) Enterprise Linux(R) 3, Update 3. The IBRIX
Fusion Software Suite is available through leading OEMs.

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"
Details about IBRIX Fusion and similar performance results done
with standard hardware configurations have been published in an
article within the February 2005 issue of Dell Power Solutions
magazine.
The following is a brief description of the configuration equipment .3.

-- Benchmark: Sequential I/O with 64KB I/O size with 5GB file
size per client (160GB total ).

Parallel computing is a very similar field to distributed computing.

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The Mitrion Virtual
Processor and Mitrion Software Development Kit allow FPGA
supercomputing applications to be written by scientists , researchers, and
software developers without any hardware design knowledge."

Since becoming available in October 2005, the Mitrion Platform has been
chosen by most of the FPGA Supercomputing industry leaders worldwide. The goal is to
make it easier for hardware designers and software programmers to leverage
Xilinx programmable devices for their next generation systems.

Linear scalability from 148 MB/second of write throughput with
a single server to 1.

-- Clients: Sixteen DELL PowerEdge 1850 Series with dual 3.

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All the
common debugging tools, such as watchpoints, breakpoints , and
call-dependencies are included. Other
trademarks or registered trademarks are the marks of their respective
owners.

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"Our Mitrion Platform is designed specifically for the emerging FPGA
Supercomputing market where ease of programming is a critical success
factor and key requirement for our customers, which consist of scientists,
researchers, and software developers.

Mitrion Virtual Processor -- Revolutionary Enabling Technology

The Mitrion Virtual Processor is a fine -grain, massively parallel,
configurable soft-core processor.

Linear scalability from 130 MB /second of read throughput with
a single server to 1.
Operating system: Red Hat(R) Enterprise Linux(R) 3, Update 3. IBRIX is
headquartered in Billerica, MA.

Parallel computing is the science and art of programming computers that can do more than one operation at once, concurrently, during the same cycle, often via having more than one processor.

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The Mitrion Platform -- Rapid Development for FPGA-Based Supercomputing
Applications

The Mitrion Virtual Processor and Mitrion Software Development Kit provide
a unique solution that makes it possible to develop supercomputing
applications for FPGAs on a true software level." said Shaji John, President and CEO of IBRIX.168 GB/second with eight servers. For more information, please visit our
website at www.

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"Mitrionics is excited to become a Xilinx ecosystem partner and contribute
to their initiative for making FPGA programming easier and more accessible
to new market segments," stated Anders Dellson, CEO of Mitrionics, Inc . The Mitrion Software Development Kit runs
under all major operating systems including Linux and Windows.xilinx.

Availability

IBRIX Fusion is currently in production with customers in multiple
vertical markets.com

IBRIX, IBRIX Fusion, and Segmented File System are trademarks of
IBRIX, Inc.

Sites related to distributed computing are in Computers/Computer_Science/Distributed_Computing .

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com, or call
310-558-9495, or email: info@mitrionics.com.com

Highlights of the Performance Demonstration

Sustained write throughput of 1.

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The configured Mitrion Virtual Processor is then downloaded and run on the
target FPGA.S.

2 GHz
Intel Xeon(TM) processors, 1MB Level 2 cache, and 4GB SDRAM.

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This dramatically reduces
the total cost for FPGA-based software acceleration , and more importantly,
enables the whole supercomputing industry to benefit from FPGAs.mitrionics .

Mitrionics, Mitrion, Mitrion Platform, Mitrion Virtual Processor, and
Mitrion Software Development Kit are trademarks of Mitrionics, Inc.

Business Editors/High-Tech Editors
LinuxWorld Boston 2005

BILLERICA, Mass.

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"As the Xilinx family of FPGAs continues to grow in size and performance ,
it is important for companies like Mitrionics to fully harness their
supercomputing processing power with software-centric development
technologies that have broad appeal to new and growing industries ," stated
Steve Lass, director of Software Product Marketing at Xilinx. "This is a
key focus for our ESL Initiative, and we are happy to have the Mitrion
Platform as an integral component of FPGA -based methodologies and
solutions, setting new standards for rapid development of supercomputing
applications that can run on Xilinx FPGAs. The company was founded in 2000 and has key industry
relationships with Cray, Nallatech, and Silicon Graphics. IBRIX Fusion simplifies management, delivers
maximum flexibility, and reduces total cost of ownership.

Many people have written libraries to help programmers write programs for parallel computers.

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The processor completely separates the software from the FPGA
hardware it is running on. A downloadable PDF copy of
the article is available at www.040 GB/second with eight servers.

IBRIX(TM) delivers increased application performance to enterprise
computing environments utilizing a unique, software-based parallel
file system solution .