[olug] Mitrion High performance Processor

Sean Edwards cybersean3000 at yahoo.com
Fri Nov 14 20:12:25 UTC 2003


I remember replacing my 4.77 mHz 8086/8088 with a Z80.
 After about a week, it forced the magic smoke out of
some other chips on the Motherboard.  That was one
sweet week, though!

-=Sean Edards=-
cybersean3000 at yahoo.com


--- Jay Swackhamer <Jay at RebootTheUser.com> wrote:
> some of you might find this interesting........
> 
> You can increase your computers capacity 10-30 times
> by means of Mitrion's
> high performance processor. It can be installed as a
> PCI card enabling
> your PC to have the same capacity as a 30 CPU Linux
> cluster.
> Read more about the technology here.
> http://www.mitrion.com/technology.shtml
> 
> Here's the excerpt from the encryption application
> of the processor..........
> 
> Application
> An increasing use of wireless technologies has
> initiated a greater need to
> keep information secure. This demand for high
> capacity encryption
> technology raises the requirements put on the
> hardware.
> 
> Today, telecom operators often meet these demands by
> employing specialized
> and inflexible hardware solutions.
> 
> Challenge
> To develop a flexible solution for accelerated
> encryption and compression
> totally based on standard servers.
> 
> Mitrion solution
> • Evaluation: Establishing the expected performance
> improvement.
> • Implementation: Porting compression and
> encryption/decryption algorithms
> to the Mitrion processor.
> • Developing a complete high capacity
> Mitrion-powered encryption server.
> 
> Bottom line
> 1000 Mbps throughput instead of 50 Mbps - in a
> standard server.
> 
> -- 
> Jay Swackhamer
> Reboot The User
> 15791 West Dodge Road
> Suite 135
> Omaha, NE 68118
> (402) 933-6449
> (402) 933-6456 Fax
> http://www.RebootTheUser.com
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