Mercury Computer Systems Offers Flexible HPC Solutions

By DE Editors

Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. (Chelmsford, MA) announced its 1U Dual Cell-Based System 2 and new-generation MultiCore Plus SDK (Software Development Kit) at the SPIE Advanced Lithography Symposium in San Jose, CA. It is    said to provide performance and productivity gains in wafer and mask inspection, beam writers, EDA, computational lithography, aerospace and defense, and more.

The Mercury 1U Dual Cell-Based System 2 (DCBS-2) uses two Cell Broadband Engine (BE) processors to boost applications that demand a low acoustic signature in combination with the added density of the 1U form factor. With key signal processing algorithms mapped onto the system, the DCBS-2 increases the performance advantages for HPC applications such as optical proximity correction (OPC) and computational lithography — even more so when the application is distributed among multiple DCBS-2 blades in a cluster or across the network.

The MultiCore Plus SDK provides a cost-effective, seamless package of software development tools and libraries within a comprehensive programming framework designed for next-generation multicore processors such as the Cell BE processor. With an easy-to-use API, the MultiCore Plus SDK is certified for compatibility with IBM products and services.

New enhancements to the MultiCore Plus SDK include extension of the tile channels and messaging queues in the MultiCore Framework to include Intel host support, which are designed to deliver the best performance for demanding applications like OPC and design for manufacturability (DFM). Mercury reduces the number of lines of code and the code complexity by providing an API that transparently handles the parallelism, thus providing higher-quality code, and less debugging, and enables programmers to focus on core application development.

For more information, visit Mercury.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.