Software

ClearSpeed has produced, in collaboration with and under the guidance of members of the AMBER development team, a set of modifications to the AMBER 9 and AMBER 10 software that allow various implicit and explicit solvation methods within the Sander MD code to be accelerated with ClearSpeed's Advance accelerator product line.

Enhancements provide additional functionality to the AMBER code without changing any of the underlying methods; they include:

• Effective radius and force calculations of AMBER's Generalized Born (GB) models 1, 2, and 5
• Force calculations for gas phase simulations (with IGB=6)
• Various parts of the Particle Mesh Ewald explicit solvent method

Interactive Supercomputing Corporation (ISC) develops Star-P, a software platform that enables desktop tools - such as Python, MATLAB® from The MathWorks, R and others - to be run on accelerated multi-core systems for the development, testing and deployment of parallel algorithms. ISC enables faster prototyping, iteration, and deployment of large-scale solutions across a broad range of security, intelligence, manufacturing, energy, biomedical, financial, and scientific research applications,.

Star-P enables engineers, scientists and analysts to benefit from ClearSpeed accelerated multi-core systems on a much larger scale than are possible on desktops.  Applications with underlying math functions such as large matrix multiplies benefit from ClearSpeed's floating point acceleration, and with Star-P, additional functionalities and applications can run in parallel on scalar systems.

Star-P and ClearSpeed Accelerator boards provide key value for the High Performance Computing community by reducing the time to develop large and complex algorithms from years to months, improving performance of existing models and algorithms.

Multipath is the developer of Fast Matrix Solver (FMS), the industry standard for performing matrix algebra operations on large, dense matrices and groups of vectors. Packaged as a FORTRAN or C callable library, FMS may be incorporated into new or existing scientific and engineering application programs to improve performance and provide large problem solving capability.

ClearSpeed and Multipath have worked together to ensure FMS is compatible with and achieves acceleration on the ClearSpeed Advanced Accelerator boards. With this joint solution, engineers can see speedup of their FMS for their applications for even better performance.

The Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) specializes in software libraries for solving mathematical, statistical and data mining problems. Companies and industries worldwide use NAG libraries along with NAG services to enrich their applications solving problems in disciplines such as financial analysis, science, engineering and education.

The NAG libraries are one of the predominant 3rd party mathematical library products commercially available.  Through the strong relationship between NAG and ClearSpeed, there is an option for ClearSpeed customers with a high interest in accelerating particular NAG routines: NAG will work with customers to define a custom services project that fits the customer’s NAG/ClearSpeed acceleration needs.

Founded by Stephen Wolfram in 1987, Wolfram Research is one of the world's most respected software companies--as well as a powerhouse of scientific and technical innovation. As pioneers in computational science and the computational paradigm, we have pursued a long-term vision to develop the science, technology, and tools to make computation an ever-more-potent force in today's and tomorrow's world.

At the center is Mathematica: the ever-advancing core product that launched modern technical computing and has now become the world's most powerful global computation system. With millions of dedicated users throughout the technical and educational communities, Mathematica represents a unique blend of major research breakthroughs, outstanding user-oriented design, and world-class software engineering.

ClearSpeed and Mathematica have a long standing partnership and Mathematica is qualified on the ClearSpeed boards today.  Customers can be ensured of the highest level of cooperation and support from the ClearSpeed and Mathematica partnership

Since 1970, Visual Numerics has developed leading technical solutions for numerical analysis and visual data analysis.  The IMSL Numerical Libraries have been the cornerstone of predictive analytics and high-performance computing applications in science, technical and business environments for more than three decades. Regarded as the most sophisticated and reliable technology available, the IMSL Libraries provide users with the software and technical expertise needed to develop and execute scalable numerical analysis applications in C, C#, Fortran or Java.

The ClearSpeed and Visual Numerics partnership focuses on offering developers the latest IMSL Numerical Libraries accelerated by the ClearSpeed’s Advance X620 and Advance e620 accelerator boards. The ClearSpeed accelerator boards are designed for use in server and workstation systems based on 32 bit and 64 bit x86 compatible architectures. They deliver more than 66 GFLOPS of sustained double precision matrix multiply (DGEMM) performance while averaging only 25 watts power consumption.