ClearSpeed Technology Launches 50 GFLOPS Microprocessor

ClearSpeed Technology (www.clearspeed.com) today announces details of its first commercial microprocessor, the CSX600. In a presentation at the Fall Processor Forum in San Jose, California, one of the world's key semiconductor industry conferences, the Company will be presenting performance data showing the new processor to be the highest performing product of its kind.

"We have developed the CSX600 to deliver the highest level of performance and power efficiency available, in most cases creating a minimum 10-fold increase in performance per watt. The impact of this will be to enable OEM's to deliver new levels of cost effective, high performance systems,"  said Tom Beese, CEO of ClearSpeed.

The CSX600 is designed as a co-processor for accelerating PC's, workstations, servers, clusters, and blades. Initial applications are expected to be in life sciences, financial modeling, geophysical computation, scientific computing, military and aviation among others.

ClearSpeed is working with customers and the open-source community to port and accelerate mathematically intensive codes such as complex FFT's, Monte Carlo algorithms, GROMACS molecular dynamics, and other math libraries such as BLAS.
ClearSpeed has accomplished more than a doubling of the performance of its previous chip, the CS301, while adding significantly more I/O and memory bandwidth and still maintaining the same 10 GFLOPS per Watt power efficiency.