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Mitrionics' Provides Free Software Development Kit to Accelerate FPGA Supercomputing Application Development

Posted on: Monday, 6 November 2006, 18:00 CST

Mitrionics(TM), Inc., developer of the Mitrion(TM) Virtual Processor and software-centric Mitrion-C programming language for FPGA Supercomputing acceleration, today announced a new free version of its software development kit (SDK), the Mitrion SDK Personal Edition (PE). The new SDK is designed to allow researchers, scientists, developers, institutions, and independent software vendors (ISVs) to develop and accelerate a wide range of supercomputing applications to run on the Mitrion Virtual Processor installed on FPGA-based computer systems. The software-centric Mitrion SDK is the fastest and easiest way to accelerate an application's performance by programming the computationally intensive part of the application to run on the Mitrion Virtual Processor in an FPGA. The Mitrion SDK is different from all other FPGA programming solutions because it requires absolutely no hardware design skills or experience. Starting November 13th, the Mitrion SDK PE can be downloaded for free at www.mitrionics.com.

The free Mitrion SDK PE will directly support the Mitrion-C Open Bio Project initiative whereby Mitrionics will actively participate in developing FPGA Supercomputing applications such as BLAST, Smith-Waterman, and Hidden Markov Models and contribute the applications as open source to the bioinformatics community. Scientists and researchers are able to use the Mitrion SDK PE to participate in the Mitrion-C Open Bio Project to develop, modify, and optimize open source applications to run on the Mitrion Virtual Processor. Virtually all industries that utilize supercomputing applications can benefit from the Mitrion SDK PE to create accelerated applications for FPGA Supercomputing.

Together with the Mitrion SDK PE, Mitrionics also launches the My Mitrion user forum, where developers using the Mitrion SDK can post questions and discuss their projects.

Mitrion SDK PE

The Mitrion Software Development Kit Personal Edition is a free version of the Mitrion SDK that allows the development of accelerated applications for the Mitrion Virtual Processor without access to FPGA hardware. The Mitrion SDK PE is a complete, fully functional, development environment for Mitrion-C applications. It includes an IDE, a Mitrion-C compiler and a graphical debugger and profiler. It does not, however, include the Mitrion Virtual Processor, or the capability to configure Mitrion Virtual Processors that will run in FPGA hardware. The Mitrion Virtual Processor is licensed separately.

The Mitrion SDK PE Provides the ability to:

 --  write and debug Mitrion-C applications for the Mitrion Virtual     Processor --  simulate their interaction with programs running on the host CPU --  determine their actual performance on different FPGA platforms      

Mitrion-C: The Mitrion-C programming language is an implicitly parallel programming language with syntax very similar to C. With Mitrion-C it is easy for programmers to learn how to write software that takes advantage of all the parallelism available from the Mitrion Virtual Processor.

Mitrion Compiler and Debugger: The Mitrion Compiler and the Debugger are available as a command-line tool or directly from inside the Mitrion Integrated Development Environment (IDE). The Mitrion Debugger is a graphical debugger and code-simulator. It simplifies finding programming errors, performance bottlenecks and inefficient code. All common debugging tools, such as watch point, breakpoints, call-dependencies are provided.

The Mitrion SDK PE is supported on Linux/UNIX, Windows and Mac OS X. A commercial version of the Mitrion SDK is also available from Mitrionics, together with numerous support and training options.

About FPGA Supercomputing

FPGA Supercomputing is an exciting and growing market segment based on technology that enables processor performance acceleration 10x to 100x greater than traditional processors. Scientists, developers, and researchers strive to improve productivity by achieving faster performance in their supercomputing applications and lower power consumption in their systems. The software-centric Mitrion Platform is ideal because it allows FPGA Supercomputing applications to be developed without any circuit design skills. Key application areas that stand to benefit most from FPGA Supercomputing are bioinformatics, oil and gas, imaging, and financial industries.

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 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 the exciting new field of FPGA Supercomputing which provides higher processing power and lower energy consumption than clusters of computer systems. The company's Mitrion Virtual Processor and Mitrion Software Development Kit provide cost effective FPGA Supercomputing power to organizations for their most critical applications. The Mitrion Platform is unique from any other FPGA programming solution, because it eliminates the need for circuit design skills, thus making FPGA Supercomputing performance accessible to an entire new market of scientists and developers. Mitrionics has key industry relationships with Cray, Nallatech, and Silicon Graphics. For more information, visit the company Web site at www.mitrionics.com, or call 310-558-9495, or email: info@mitrionics.com.

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

Silicon Graphics, Altix and SGI are registered trademarks, and RASC is a trademark of Silicon Graphics, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries worldwide. All other trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners.

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SOURCE: Mitrionics, Inc.

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