Convey Computer™ Corporation Launches World's First Hybrid-Core Computer at SC08 ...( New Company ...)

New Company Combines Talent and Expertise of Former Convex Computer Team with Breakthrough Programmability and Performance Technology. Convey HC-1 Brings Revolutionary Solution to High Performance Computing (HPC) Industry.

Austin, TX (PRWEB) November 17, 2008 -- A revolutionary solution to the high-performance computing (HPC) industry's expensive power, performance and programmability barriers launched today at SC08 in the form of the world's first hybrid-core computer from new company Convey Computer Corporation.

Created by the executive team that built Convex Computer, Convey fills a new market space called hybrid-core computing. Simply put, hybrid-core computing marries the low cost and simple programming model of a commodity system with the performance of customized hardware architecture.

The Convey HC-1™ integrates advanced, patent-pending computer architecture and compiler technology with commercial, off-the-shelf hardware - namely an Intel® Xeon® processor and Xilinx® Field Programmable Gate Arrays. The HC-1 features a Convey-engineered coprocessor with its own high-bandwidth, virtual memory addressed, cache-coherent memory subsystem in a scalable 2U chassis. Moreover, an ANSI standard development environment gives programmers 100 percent productivity and portability - an attribute
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