Manycore revolution
The PC market remains the main growth driver of development for the current computer industry. During the last decade, personal computers have slowly replaced several types of form factors: workstations, dumb terminals for mainframes access and others. The reason for this evolution has been the continuous improvement of performances of this product and in particular the impressive processing power achieved by the “x86” architecture.
Nonetheless, single CPUs have reached a threshold of complexity where they cannot be integrated much more due to thermal factors, and thus cannot be accelerated anymore in terms of clock speed. This situation created the conditions for innovative new organization of processing power from multi-core design to more extreme propositions like parallel system-on-chips.
While supercomputing power has never been so affordable and the growing performancesmake possible a whole new generation of applications, the legacy of source codes in the market and the current state of available programming skills are creating a serious and widening gap between theoretical and obtained performances. achieved performances. This is where HPC Project comes in and provides solutions to exploit such architectures at their maximum theoretical level.
To address the manycore revolution, HPC Project relies on his strong connections with hardware manufacturers which provide the company with access to the state-of-the-art technology coming from the x86 ecosystem.
Our offer is indeed supported by an automated compiling technology that generates hybrid versions of codes able to take advantage of multicore configurations. Our compiling tool transforms a code in an intermediate form using a generic mathematical formalism enabling future retargeting following the technological evolution of chipsets. This tool ensures exact replication of application computation as it is rooted on the same formal basis used for critical real-systems code production.
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The company partners with Intel, which supports HPC Project and provides access to latest generation processors such as NEHALEM-based architectures. |
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