ClearSpeed Releases Advance e720 Accelerator Board for HP BladeSystem

ClearSpeed Technology has launched its Advance e720 accelerator board using the company's CSX700

processor. The Advance e720 Accelerator Board is PCIe Type II mezzanine card designed to fit within HP BladeSystem c-Class server blades. Targeting technical computing applications, such as computational electromagnetics (CEM), financial analytics, and life sciences, it delivers 96 GFLOPS of 64-bit, double precision performance. Unit requires no additional space and consumes minimal additional power, maximizing compute density of BladeSystem c-Class architecture. The ClearSpeed Advance e720 board has passed HP's BladeSystem compatibility test suite and has been designated as HP BladeSystem c-Class Compatible. The Advance e720 will be available in volume from ClearSpeed in early Q3 of this year.