ClearSpeed Advance™ e710 and e720 Accelerator Boards

ClearSpeed’s Advance™ accelerators are designed specifically to address the performance requirements of numerically intensive applications. Their high performance, low power designs enable you to maximize your datacenter’s performance within its space, power and cooling constraints. The CSX700 is the latest member of the ClearSpeed processor family and is the world’s most power-efficient 64-bit floating point accelerator.

Practical petascale systems must be built from components with a high Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF). The Advance e710 and e720 accelerator boards incorporate the most advanced set of reliability features available on any accelerator. These features include the use of Error Correcting Codes (ECC) on all memories, both on- and off-chip; low power consumption to significantly reduce the thermal stress on the system; and the avoidance of moving parts. All of these factors are essential to achieve the required MTBF for enterprise-class systems.

NEW! ClearSpeed Advance e710

Advance e710
ClearSpeed Advance e710

The ClearSpeed Advance e710 is the latest accelerator to bring all the benefits of ClearSpeed’s technology to the newest generation of multi-core industry standard servers. It delivers new levels of compute performance, reliability, precision and accuracy for high performance computing (HPC) applications in financial services and a wide variety of scientific disciplines.

The Advance e710’s compact size and low power consumption enable it to be installed quickly and easily into industry standard servers, without requiring any additional cooling or power supplies. The low profile PCIe x8 board includes one ClearSpeed CSX700 and 2 GBytes of ECC-protected DRAM.

View the Advance e710 Product Brief

NEW! ClearSpeed Advance e720 For HP BladeSystem c-Class server blades

Advance e710
ClearSpeed Advance e720

The ClearSpeed Advance e720 brings all the benefits of ClearSpeed’s latest accelerator technology to HP’s blade servers. It delivers new levels of compute performance, reliability, precision and accuracy for high performance computing (HPC) applications in financial services and a wide variety of scientific disciplines.

The Advance e720’s compact size and low power enable it to be installed quickly and easily into the Type II mezzanine slot in HP blade servers, without requiring any additional cooling or power supplies. The e720 provides a PCIe x8 connection to the host, via the HP Type II connector, and includes one ClearSpeed CSX700 and 2 GB of ECC-protected DRAM.

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There are a number of ways to accelerate your application. Two of the most popular methods are: plug and play via standard libraries, or native code development.

Plug and Play acceleration

The Advance e710 and e720 work with the host processor on the most computationally intensive portions of an application. When a call is made by an application to a ClearSpeed-supported function, it is intercepted by ClearSpeed’s accelerated math library (CSXL) which determines if the function call can be accelerated. If so, the required data is transferred to the Advance accelerator and the answer is calculated by CSXL using both the accelerator and the multi-core host in parallel. CSXL then transparently combines the results and returns them to the calling application. The use of heterogeneous acceleration is transparent to the end user and the application.

Native Code Development

The compute-intensive kernels from an application can be ported to run natively on ClearSpeed accelerators using the Software Development Kit (SDK). ClearSpeed’s SDK provides a full suite of professional software development tools built around an ANSI C-based cross compiler. It enables developers to write and debug code, develop new applications or to port existing applications to the ClearSpeed Advance accelerator family.

The SDK includes:

Regardless of the acceleration method used, the ClearSpeed Visual Profiler provides a unique and powerful capability to visualize and optimize your application.

ClearSpeed Visual Profiler

For developers, the ClearSpeed Visual Profiler toolset provides insight at every level of the system including the interactions between multiple host processors and one or more ClearSpeed Advance accelerator boards. By delivering a consistent visual representation across the entire system, it provides the best possible environment in which to develop code that will perform optimally in today’s multi-core and heterogeneous accelerated systems.

 

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