Calgary, Alberta - April 15 2008 - Tycrid Platform Technologies Inc., an innovator in supercomputing platforms, today announced that their debut workstation, Titan, has achieved record performance results, for  a standalone workstation, running VMD, a molecular visualization program for displaying, animating, and analyzing large biomolecular systems using 3-D graphics and built-in scripting.

VMD is a real-world test that Tycrid utilized, due to its support for NVIDIA's CUDA toolkit, and ability to efficiently scale to multiple Gpu’s in a single system. The direct Coulomb summation algorithm implemented in VMD is fully GPU optimized with almost linear scaling across multiple Gpu’s.

"In tests we published in a recent research paper, a single Tesla card outruns a single Intel QX6700 CPU core by a factor of 44," said John Stone, lead developer of VMD. "The 6 GPU run achieves 228 billion atom evaluations per second, a single QX6700 CPU core can only achieve 0.9 billion. This results in a 253x speedup versus a single CPU core, a very large performance gain even relative to 8 or 16 CPU cores."

"These results, pushing upwards around 1.7 TFRALOPS, are very encouraging for multi GPU processing in general," said Chris Heier, President of Tycrid Platform Technologies Inc. "This has shown excellent opportunity for massively dense GPU computing platforms.  
Researchers in molecular dynamics can essentially have the power of a decent sized computing cluster under their desk with Titan."

Titan brings world leading performance capabilities with a standard 6  Tesla C870 configuration. Professionals utilizing VMD for their research can expect to see results in a fraction of the time they are used to, without the hassle of having to work on computing clusters. For users demanding high performance, and enhanced OpenGL visuals, Titan supports the use of a Quadro FX 5600 GPU.

For more information, visit www.tycrid.com .

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