The US naval research laboratory has the world’s largest FPGA supercomputer system, and now the Mitrion platform will be used to accelerate supercomputing applications on a Cray XD1(TM) supercomputer purchased in 2005.

“This is of substantial financial value for us, but even more important is the prestige of such an order,” says Anders Dellson, CEO of
Mitrionics, to news service Rapidus.

FPGA stands for field programmable gate array and is a semiconductor device containing programmable logic component and programmable interconnects.

Founded in 2001, Mitrionics, has its head quarters at Ideon Science Park in Lund, Sweden. The company is in FPGA Supercomputing field, which is a growing market segment based on technology that enables processor performance acceleration 10x to 100x greater than traditional processors and with much lower power consumption.

The company’s product, the Mitrion Platform, is software-centric and ideal for software developers, scientists, and researchers because it allows FPGA Supercomputing applications to be developed without any circuit design skills. Key application areas that stand to benefit most from FPGA Supercomputing are bioinformatics, oil and gas, imaging, and financial industries.

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