A Petaflop machine in 20 racks?

[Jim Lux]

At 09:00 PM 10/19/2003 -0400, Christoph Best wrote:


>BTW, who or what is behind ClearSpeed? Their Bristol address is
>identical to Infineon's Design Centre there, and Hewlett Packard seems
>to have a lab there, too. If they have that kind of support, I am sure
>they thought hard before making these design choices, and it may just
>be tarketed at certain problems (vector/matrix/FFT-like stuff).

Off their web site...http://www.clearspeed.com/about.php?team
The CEO and president are marketing oriented (CEO: "he focused on taking 
new technologies to market", President: "..successfully grown glabal sales 
mangement and field application organizations and instrumental in creating 
key partnership agreements".

The CTO (Ray McConnell) does parallel processing with 300K processors, etc. 
VP Engr (Russell David) designed mixed signal baseband ICs for wireless 
market.  I didn't turn up any papers in the IEEE on-line library, but 
that's not particularly signficant, in and of itself.

McConnell has a paper 
http://www.hotchips.org/archive/hc11/hc11pres_pdf/hc99.s3.2.McConnell.pdf 
shows architectures from PixelFusion, Ltd... SIMD core with 32 bit embedded 
processor running a 256 PE "Fuzion block". Each PE has an 8 bit ALU and 
2kByte PE memory... (sound familiar?)
 From "Hot Chips 99"


James Lux, P.E.
Spacecraft Telecommunications Section
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mail Stop 161-213
4800 Oak Grove Drive
Pasadena CA 91109
tel: (818)354-2075
fax: (818)393-6875

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