Releases 2011

Award-winning Maximum Performance Computing (MPC) powers trading systems at J.P. Morgan

Maxeler Technologies, the market leader in Maximum Performance Computing technology, today announced that it has gone live with a supercomputer solution for fixed income trading operations at J.P. Morgan. As a result, the analysis and profiling of certain intra-day trading risk within the investment bank will run on a Maxeler dataflow supercomputer.

Michael J. Flynn, Chairman of Maxeler, presents at UC Berkeley

Michael J. Flynn, Chairman of Maxeler, presents a talk at UC Berkeley, sponsored by CITRIS (Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society) on Dataflow Computing, which includes a fascinating first-hand account of the history of parallel computing and an introduction to the concepts of dataflow processing.

Maxeler Receives Honors in 2011 HPCWire Editor’s Choice Awards

Maxeler has been recognized in the annual HPCwire Readers’ and Editor’s Choice Awards, winning the Editor's Choice for best use of HPC in financial services for accelerating risk models at J.P. Morgan.

Maxeler at SC'11

Maxeler will be at SC'11 12-18 November. If you can think of a business or scientific goal you could achieve today if you had 20-50x more compute performance, while remaining within your space, power and manpower constraints, come talk to us at booth 5617 to see how we can help.

Oskar Mencer, CEO of Maxeler, presents talk at Barcelona Supercomputing Center

Oskar Mencer, CEO of Maxeler, presents talk at Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) titled "Programming dataflow engines for HPC applications".

Maxeler joins panel at EuReCCA workshop

Maxeler VP Oliver Pell will be discussing "Challenges for computer systems architecture in 2020 and beyond" at the EuReCCA workshop in Barcelona on Nov 4th.

J.P. Morgan, Maxeler and Imperial College present keynotes at HPC China 2011

Dr Stephen Weston (J.P. Morgan), Oskar Mencer (CEO of Maxeler), and Wayne Luk (Professor of Computer Engineering at Imperial College London), are giving keynote presentations at the HPC China 2011 conference in Jinan.

Maxeler joins EU research effort to boost performance of reconfigurable accelerators

Maxeler today announced it is joining 7 organizations across Europe in a multi-national research project to exploit reconfigurable accelerator chips.

Maxeler launches Maximum Performance Cloud Computing with MaxCloud

Maxeler Technologies, pioneer of Maximum Performance Computing and provider of complete acceleration solutions, today announced the launch of MaxCloud, the industry's first cloud implementation of a high performance dataflow computing system.

Maxeler at SEG

Maxeler will be at the 81st SEG Annual Meeting, SEG 2011 in San Antonio, Texas, 19-23 September. Drop by booth 3556 for a demonstration of our technology and see Oliver Pell, VP of Engineering at Maxeler, present at the HPC User Tools Workshop on Friday 23rd.

Maxeler at DSEi

Maxeler will be at DSEi 2011 13-16 September. With our first booth at a defence and security event, we will be demonstrating how our high-performance computing solutions, proven in the commercial environment, can cater to the demands of the defence market.

J.P. Morgan Presents Keynote at FPL

Stephen Weston from J.P. Morgan will present "Field Programmable Logic in investment banking – why scale and complexity drive the need for speed" on September 5 at FPL 2011 - the 21st International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications - sponsored by Maxeler Technologies, covering the covering the computational challenges currently being faced by global banks and discussing some details of their work with Maxeler Technologies.

Maxeler Introduces New Low-Latency Connectivity Platform

Maxeler, pioneer of Maximum Performance Computing and provider of complete acceleration solutions, today announced the launch of MaxNode10G, a platform designed for wire-speed processing of multiple 10 gigabit network data streams.

Maxeler at SEG HPC Workshop

Maxeler Technologies and several of our clients will be presenting at the SEG Workshop on High Performance Computing in the Geosciences at Berkeley, CA, July 18-21, 2011.

Maxeler launches MAX-UP

Maxeler Technologies Supports Universities to Develop and Teach High Performance, Low Power Supercomputing.

Maxeler at ISC

Maxeler will be at ISC'11 19-23 June. If you can think of a business or scientific goal you could achieve today if you had 20-50x more compute performance, while remaining within your space, power and manpower constraints, come talk to us at booth 101 to see how we can help.

Maxeler CEO to present CRS4 Colloquium

Oskar Mencer, CEO of Maxeler, is to present a CRS4 colloquium titled "Delivering the next generation of supercomputing with reconfigurable hardware" in Cagliari, Sardinia, June 6.

Maxeler to present keynote at HEART 2011

Oliver Pell, VP of Engineering at Maxeler, to present a keynote lecture titled "Surviving the end of frequency scaling with reconfigurable dataflow computing" at HEART 2011, the International Workshop on Highly-Efficient Accelerators and Reconfigurable Technologies, at Imperial College London, UK on June 3.

Maxeler at EAGE

Maxeler will be at the 73rd EAGE Conference & Exhibition in Vienna 23-26 May. Drop by stand 2471 for a demonstration of our new MaxGenFD programming tool tailored for seismic modeling and our acceleration platform running seismic applications.

J.P. Morgan Presents Colloquium at Stanford

Peter Richards and Stephen Weston from J.P. Morgan will present an EE Computer Systems Colloquium at Stanford University titled "Technology in banking - facing the challenges of scale and complexity", covering the challenges currently being faced at J.P. Morgan and discussing some details of their work with Maxeler Technologies, May 11, 2010.

Maxeler Technologies Sells 20 Percent Stake in Company to J.P. Morgan

Maxeler Technologies, Inc., the leading provider of high performance computing acceleration solutions, announced that it has secured an investment from J.P. Morgan in exchange for a 20 percent stake in the company. The proceeds will be used to support Maxeler's plans for continued growth.

Maxeler gives Thalesians Seminar in London

Professor Mike Flynn, Chairman of Maxeler, will present a Thalesian Seminar on FPGA accelerated processing of bespoke tranches of collateralized default obligations (CDOs) and interest rate derivatives, titled “Vertical Acceleration of Financial Algorithms” at City Pride, Canary Wharf, London, UK, March 16, 2011.

Maxeler Chairman to present at CSRC colloquium

Professor Mike Flynn, Chairman of Maxeler, will deliver a talk on FPGA accelerated processing, titled “Accelerating computations in very large applications using data flow based accelerators”, at the Computational Science Research Center, San Diego, Feb 11, 2011.

Maxeler CEO to give keynote at Symposium on Verification

Oskar Mencer, CEO of Maxeler Technologies, is presenting the keynote, titled "Acceleration of Verification and Verification of Acceleration", at the Symposium on Verification at the University of Tokyo, Feb 2, 2011.