PETALUMA, Calif., Sept. 10 — Praesum Communications announced today that will now be doing business as Praesum Supercomputing and will provide advanced OpenCL-based computational acceleration products for a wide range of applications. This marks an important shift in the business direction of Praesum, which is known for being a leader in smart switching technologies in the form of IP cores, boards, and system-level products and consulting services since its founding in 2000.
“High-performance computing is at a junction, with the emergence of new and challenging applications, extremely dense computing resources, advanced communications technologies, and new application development tools,” said Kent Dahlgren, CEO of Praesum. “Praesum is uniquely positioned to take advantage of this combination of technologies.”
Praesum will focus on creating its line of Warthog Flex HPCS (High Performance Computing System) computational accelerators built using TriaNET, a high-speed interconnect technology based on and compatible with Serial RapidIO 2.1, but with important extensions to permit Ethernet and IP networking, streaming sensor data, and shared memory semantics over the same physical link. TriaNET offers design flexibility to address many high-performance and embedded computing applications (HPC and HPEC), specifically those with demanding streaming data requirements.
Praesum Supercomputing products will support OpenCL as the primary programming environment. OpenCL’s wide adoption and platform independent nature makes it a natural vehicle for high-performance acceleration.
“The combination of TriaNET and OpenCL is a real game-changer for high-performance computing acceleration,” said Kent Dahlgren.
About Praesum Supercomputing
Praesum Supercomputing provides innovative, high performance computing products and services to the scientific, industrial, and defense markets. Leveraging the very latest in massively parallel processing processing, communications, and development tool technologies, Praesum Supercomputing products combine unprecedented performance, low power consumption, and ease of development. For more information, please visit http://www.praesum.com.
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Source: Praesum Supercomputing