News – 2011

15 Dec 2011Award-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. Maxeler’s approach to [...]

30 Nov 2011Michael 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. Michael J Flynn, Senior Advisor and [...]

17 Nov 2011Maxeler Receives Honors in 2011 HPCWire Editor’s Choice Awards

Seattle, WA, 17 November 2011 – Maxeler, pioneer of Maximum Performance Computing, has been recognized in the annual HPCwire Readers’ and Editor’s Choice Awards, presented at the 2011 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC ‘11), in Seattle, Washington. Maxeler was recognized with the following honors: Editor’s Choice for best use [...]

11 Nov 2011Maxeler at SC’11

Maxeler will be at SC’11, the premier global high performance computing conference, 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 [...]

10 Nov 2011Oskar 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”. Microprocessors have been hitting the limits of attainable clock frequencies for the past few years, resulting in the current multi-core processor solutions provided by the major microprocessor vendors. Many important applications in fields as diverse as [...]

01 Nov 2011Maxeler joins panel at EuReCCA workshop

Maxeler Technologies VP of Engineering Oliver Pell will be joining a panel discussion as part of the EuReCCA workshop in Barcelona on November 4th, covering “Challenges for computer systems architecture in 2020 and beyond”. EuReCCA, the European Research Center on Computer Systems Architecture, is a pan-European virtual research center of top-class research institutions. The EuReCCA [...]

26 Oct 2011J.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 National HPC China 2011 conference in Jinan. The focus of the keynotes is to translate the advantages of Maximum Performance Computing from the Oil & Gas and Finance [...]

14 Oct 2011Maxeler joins EU research effort to boost performance of reconfigurable accelerators

London, 14 October 2011 – Maxeler Technologies, pioneer of Maximum Performance Computing and provider of complete HPC acceleration solutions, today announced it is joining 7 other organizations across Europe in a multi-national research project to further exploit the capabilities of reconfigurable silicon chips for real-world applications. Reconfigurable FPGA hardware is well established as being capable [...]

20 Sep 2011Maxeler launches Maximum Performance Cloud Computing with MaxCloud

High-performance dataflow computing now available in the Cloud London, 20th September 2011 – 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. MaxCloud offers businesses a scalable, on-demand, high-availability off-site resource to eliminate [...]

19 Sep 2011Maxeler at SEG

Maxeler will be at the 81st SEG Annual Meeting, SEG 2011 in San Antonio, Texas, 19-21 September. Drop by booth 3556 for a demonstration of our MaxGenFD programming tool tailored for seismic modeling and our acceleration platform running seismic applications. This year, we will also be promoting our solutions for in-the-field deployment of our supercomputing [...]

09 Sep 2011Maxeler at DSEi

Maxeler will be at Defence and Security Equipment International – 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. Come see us at booth N7-591. To [...]

30 Aug 2011J.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 computational challenges currently being faced by global banks [...]

01 Aug 2011Maxeler Introduces New Low-Latency Connectivity Platform

MaxNode10G provides connectivity for high performance computing London, August 1 2011 – 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 MaxNode10G is a connectivity platform for businesses running applications requiring low [...]

15 Jul 2011Maxeler at SEG HPC Workshop

Maxeler Technologies will be at the SEG Workshop on High Performance Computing in the Geosciences in Berkeley, California, July 18-21, 2011. Oliver Pell, Maxeler’s VP of Engineering will be presenting a talk on July 20th on “Accelerating Large Scale Geoscience Applications with FPGAs”, where he will discuss how Maxeler’s dataflow computing technology can be utilized [...]

20 Jun 2011Maxeler launches MAX-UP

Maxeler Technologies Supports Universities to Develop and Teach High Performance, Low Power Supercomputing London, United Kingdom, 20 June, 2011 – Maxeler, pioneer of Maximum Performance Computing and provider of complete acceleration solutions, today announced the Maxeler University Program (MAX-UP); which supports universities at the forefront of development of new algorithms and acceleration for high performance [...]

18 Jun 2011Maxeler 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. To arrange a meeting email [...]

05 Jun 2011Maxeler 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. As microprocessors reach the limits of attainable clock frequencies and acceptable power consumption, major microprocessor vendors are enabling higher degrees of parallelism by increasing the number of cores per [...]

01 Jun 2011Maxeler 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. Microprocessors have been hitting the limits of attainable clock frequencies for the [...]

16 May 2011Maxeler at EAGE

Maxeler will be at the 73rd EAGE Conference & Exhibition in Vienna 23-26 May 2011. Drop by stand 2471 for a demonstration of our new MaxGenFD programming tool tailored for seismic 3D finite difference applications and our acceleration platforms running seismic applications.  

05 May 2011J.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. The business challenges [...]

31 Mar 2011Maxeler Technologies Sells 20 Percent Stake in Company to J.P. Morgan

New York, NY – March 31, 2011 – 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. “This financing will [...]

03 Mar 2011Maxeler 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. Although the explosive growth in the trading and complexity of credit derivative [...]

20 Jan 2011Maxeler 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 a Computational Science Research Center colloquium, San Diego, Feb 11, 2011. For many high performance computing applications the alternative to the multicore rack is to use an accelerator [...]

19 Jan 2011Maxeler 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. Acceleration and Verification are mutually important components. Acceleration of individual computer applications via special hardware/software extensions “benefits” from verification, i.e. making sure that the [...]