Convey

Convey

Eurotech’s latest performance offering is Hybrid-core computing from Convey, addressing many markets including oil & gas, financial analytics, bioinformatics and Telco.

Convey is a revolutionary hybrid-core computing server, whose architecture combines the familiar world of x86 computing with hardware-based, application-specific instructions to accelerate HPC applications.  The result is a tightly integrated system that gives you many times the performance of a commodity server on key applications in oil and gas, financial analytics, bioinformatics and other markets.

What makes hybrid-core computing unique?

Convey systems use:

• FPGAs for energy efficiency and performance boosts;
• Industry-standard programming and the x86 ecosystem for productivity;
• Application-specific instruction sets — or what we call personalities — specifically tailored to accelerate key application kernels;
• An architecture that adapts to workloads to leverage the efficiency of application-specific computing.
• One example of the record-breaking performance Convey can provide is the implementation of the Smith-Waterman algorithm used in Bio Science; 172x faster than conventional methods – with this kind of performance it’s clear to see the benefits.

Save Power – Go Green

Convey’s hybrid-core computing reduces the number of servers in your HPC environment without sacrificing performance.  This means you can do more computing with less hardware, lowering data centre costs and energy usage.

Increase Application Performance - Gain Competitive Advantage

Hybrid-core computing applies application-specific hardware to compute intensive tasks, thus providing increased performance over commodity processors.  Application performance can increase 5x to over 100x, improving time-to-market.

Reduce Deployment Costs – Develop Personalities

Hybrid-core computing gives you the performance of application-specific hardware with the programmability and deployment ease of an x86 server.  Programming in ANSI standard languages leverages the x86 ecosystem and personalities (instruction sets) give a flexible approach to optimizing different kinds of applications.