News – 2016

23 Dec 2016Maxeler Technologies Inc Collaborates with Hitachi Data Systems Around High-performance Compliance Capture and Analytics Solution for Financial Institutions

Mountain View, USA, Dec. 23, 2016 — Maxeler Technologies Inc., a leading provider of dataflow computing platforms and a member of the Hitachi Technology Alliance Program, announced today its collaboration with Hitachi Data Systems to address the demands of new financial legislation and compliance regulations with a high-performance compliance capture and analytics solution. The Maxeler-Hitachi [...]

05 Dec 2016Maxeler is official Amazon EC2 F1 Instance Partner

Maxeler is an official partner for the new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) F1 instance, bringing Maxeler’s Multiscale Dataflow Computing to the Cloud. More information here.

03 Dec 2016New Amazon EC2 F1 instance bringing Maxeler Maximum Performance Computing to The Cloud

(following up the recent announcement by Amazon Web Services) Performance brings competitive advantage. The new Amazon EC2 F1 instance, the first of its kind, allows AWS customers to use customizable hardware to push the limits of the possible, which was previously only a luxury for the largest enterprises. Maxeler has been helping Tier 1 banks, [...]

04 Nov 2016Maxeler at AWS re:Invent 2016 in Las Vegas

This year, for the first time, Maxeler is joining the global Amazon Web Services community gathering at re:Invent 2016 in Las Vegas from Nov 28 to Dec 2 (see https://reinvent.awsevents.com/) Maxeler’s first product on AWS is a CPU-only finance counterparty risk (CVA) dashboard, with FPML support for portfolio upload. If you plan to be at [...]

08 Sep 2016Research project SAVE successfully completed

The FP7 research project SAVE has been successfully completed. Over the last three years, Maxeler Technologies has joined a consortium of seven partners from both industry and academia to address the challenges of processing large, dynamic workloads on Heterogeneous System Architectures (HSA) with CPUs and dedicated Dataflow Engines (DFE) as well as other accelerators. The [...]

16 May 2016MIT Technology Review‎: Moore’s Law Is Dead. Now What?

MIT Technology Review‎ reports on how 50 years of transistor shrinking is coming to an end. Now, technology companies have to search for alternative concepts to satisfy the ever-increasing demand for computational performance. One solution is to focus on more efficient computer architectures, an approach that is spearheaded by Maxeler’s Multiscale Dataflow technology. Full story [...]

12 Apr 2016Oskar Mencer to present talk at COOL Chips

On 21 April 2016, Oskar Mencer, Maxeler’s CEO will present a keynote talk titled “The Multiscale Dataflow Computing Chip” at the IEEE Symposium on Low-Power and High-Speed Chips, Cool Chips XIX. His talk will focus on Maxeler’s effort to design a dedicated DataFlow computing Chip (DFC) capable of maximizing performance per cubic foot of datacenter [...]

28 Jan 2016The H2020 VINEYARD project

The H2020 project VINEYARD (started in February) aims at developing an integrated platform for energy-efficient data centres based on new servers with novel, coarse- grain and fine-grain, programmable hardware accelerators. In addition, a high-level programming framework will be built to allow end-users utilize these accelerators in heterogeneous computing systems by using typical data-centre programming frameworks [...]