Rapid Prototypes Goes With Gateway Grid to Simulate High-Speed Electronics for Its Customers
February 25 2004 - 8:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
Rapid Prototypes Goes With Gateway Grid to Simulate High-Speed
Electronics for Its Customers Powered by United Devices Grid MP On
Demand(TM) Service, Rapid Prototypes Saves Money by 'Renting'
Compute Time on 7,000-Node Gateway Grid POWAY, Calif. and AUSTIN,
Texas, Feb. 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Rapid Prototypes, Inc., a
turnkey electronic product design services company, is analyzing
the design of backplanes for next-generation optical switching
equipment -- and saving hundreds of thousands of dollars in the
process -- thanks to its use of the grid-computing service from
Gateway, Inc. and United Devices. (Logo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20020930/LAM050LOGO ) Rapid
Prototypes is using Gateway Processing on Demand(SM) (GPOD) grid
service, backed by United Device's Grid MP Alliance(TM) platform,
to develop some of the world's fastest commercial field
programmable gateway array (FPGA) applications. FPGAs are
integrated circuits (ICs) that can be programmed in the field after
they've been manufactured. They allow engineers to design
specialized ICs that can later be produced hard-wired in large
quantities for distribution to computer manufacturers and end
users. In this case, Rapid Prototypes is analyzing backplane
systems for next generation Internet switching equipment. "GPOD
allows us to simulate very high-speed electronics, without
investing in expensive new hardware," said Brian Von Herzen, Ph.D.,
president of Rapid Prototypes. "Because the performance is faster
with the grid, we are able to produce even higher quality results
for our clients while passing on the cost savings this speed of
production allows." Conceived as a technique to process information
normally handled by supercomputers, grid computing links thousands
of PCs to collectively share processing power. Gateway's grid
service launched December 2002, joining nearly 7,000 computers in
Gateway retail stores across the United States. GPOD ranks among
the top 10 largest supercomputers in the world by processing power,
producing more than 11 TFLOPS (trillion floating point operations
per second) at peak capacity, with most nodes averaging 2.0 GHz or
better. Rapid Prototypes conserves costs by renting just the amount
of compute time the company needs. In essence, Rapid achieves the
computation power its applications require without purchasing a
large hardware infrastructure. Gateway provides the hardware
backbone for the GPOD service, while United Device's Grid MP
Alliance platform provides the virtual operating system for the
grid. "The beauty of this solution is that Rapid Prototypes can
quickly design integrated circuits without investing upfront
capital building their own technology infrastructure," said Scott
Weinbrandt, senior vice president of Gateway's Enterprise Systems
Division. "Companies pay only for the processing power they need to
solve their complex computational problems." "This announcement
demonstrates yet another application and industry that can exploit
grid computing to achieve tangible and significant business
savings," said Paul Kirchoff, vice president of marketing at United
Devices. "Electronic design automation is a perfect example of such
a compute-intensive application area. This is real utility
computing in action." The Gateway Processing on Demand(SM) service
is competitively priced based on processor hours used and does not
require any long-term or minimum-usage commitments. For more
information, go to http://gateway.com/work/services/pod.shtml or
http://www.ud.com/alliance . About United Devices United Devices is
the market leader in secure grid solutions. The company's Grid MP
platform is used to aggregate compute resources on a network to
create an enterprise grid capable of running a wide range of
high-performance computing applications in life sciences,
geosciences, manufacturing, financial services, chemical
engineering and other industries. The company's solutions are
available in both enterprise and on-demand deployments. United
Devices also operates the world's largest Grid for grand-scale
research that consists of more than 2.5 million devices in over 220
countries. For more information on secure grid solutions, visit the
United Devices Web site http://www.ud.com/ . To volunteer your idle
compute power, visit http://www.grid.org/ . About Gateway Since its
founding in 1985, Gateway (NYSE:GTW) has been a technology and
direct-marketing pioneer, using its call centers, web site and
retail network to build direct customer relationships. As a branded
integrator of personalized technology solutions, Gateway offers
consumers, businesses and schools a wide range of thin TVs, digital
cameras, connected DVD players, enterprise systems and other
products, which work together seamlessly with its award-winning
line of PCs. Gateway is America's second most admired computer
company, according to Fortune magazine(1), and its products and
services received nearly 130 awards and honors last year. Visit
http://www.gateway.com/ for more information. About Rapid
Prototypes Rapid Prototypes provides high-performance design
solutions for electronic products, including telecommunications,
real-time signal analysis, and commercial electronic product
development. Often these high-performance products involve the use
of programmable logic devices, including FPGAs. Since its founding
in 1993, Rapid Prototypes ( http://www.fpga.com/ ) has been a
technology leader in high-performance system design, with product
designs shipping in the fields oftelecommunications, electronic
test equipment, consumer electronics and high-definition digital
video equipment. Rapid Prototypes pushes the limits of speed and
density achievable in today's integrated circuits, offering reduced
time to market throughthe use of programmable logic devices. Visit
http://www.fpga.com/ for more information. (1) Source: Fortune
magazine, March 3, 2003 issue
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20020930/LAM050LOGO
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Devices CONTACT: Ted Ladd of Gateway, Inc., +1-858-848-2515, ; or
Vanessa McMillan of United Devices, mobile, +1-512-731-7005, Web
site: http://gateway.com/work/services/pod.shtml Web site:
http://www.ud.com/alliance Web site: http://www.ud.com/ Web site:
http://www.grid.org/ Web site: http://www.fpga.com/ Web site:
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