Current implementations of HPC equipment and technology require a high capital investment in hardware. With its new disruptive technology and products, STC can significantly reduce the high dollar capital investment in hardware. By targeting the PLD market, the result is the expansion of the overall market with PLD based HPC market. STC’s exclusive combinatorial feature will bring scalability and flexibility as well as a much shorter time to market for prospective customers.

Using a specialized network of fundamental processing elements, a new PLD based HPC technology will emerge with STC’s FPGA Processor. The SNAPP Processor Core is a break-through in processor technology leveraging combinatorial processing element architecture. The SNAPP core is an EPIC (Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing) processor which can facilitate instruction and sub-instruction level computational parallelism. Using the SNAPP architecture, customers will be able to scale computational power to meet their demands by seamlessly linking the SNAPP cores together to create a mesh of processors (or routers) which will operate as one.

•            Many Operate As One                                               Other Benefits:

•            Combinatorial or Stand Alone                                    Improved Dissipation Of Heat

•            Unlimited  Processing Scalability                               Power Consumption

The most significant aspect of the SNAPP architecture is that sequential software applications do not need to be re-written to be accelerated by the parallel architecture. Current processing architecture is fixed and “stand alone”. Current processor designs and architectures are reaching the limits of material science and the boundaries of silicon technology. Intel, AMD and IBM all face tremendous challenges to move this forward for ubiquitous support of 32-bit applications written in a uni-processor way.  The SNAPP Core technology concepts can also be applied to process level parallel systems providing improvements to process level parallel software design effectively making STC’s technology an end-to-end solution for parallel, super and high performance computing markets.