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Netlist has announced that its 8GB and 16GB HyperCloud memory modules are qualified by Cirrascale, a premier developer of build-to-order, independent blade-based computing and storage data center infrastructures. Qualified specifically on Cirrascale's VB1325 blade server, HyperCloud supports memory intensive applications such as electronic design automation (EDA) and high performance computing (HPC) simulations. In addition, EDA and cloud computing thought leader Deopli Corporation benchmarked Cirrascale's HyperCloud configured server showing significant performance improvements.

"With HyperCloud memory, we are now able to improve simulation productivity for our customers while supporting the increased test demands of memory intensive EDA applications," said Dave Driggers, founder, CEO and CTO of Cirrascale. "HyperCloud ensures that we are maximizing server utilization, which in turn helps us to run more complex simulation models than ever before on a 2P server. The integration of HyperCloud positions us to support and develop new levels of HPC with increased performance gains for our customers on industry standard servers."

Higher memory capacities and speeds allow faster simulation times in HPC applications such as EDA.  This performance benefit can increase productivity, improve design cycle times and reduce design risk.

"Cirrascale's VB1325 running 288GB at 1333MT/s allowed us to benchmark the performance gains EDA users can expect to see when using HyperCloud," said Scott Clark, president and CEO of Deopli Corporation. "With Cirrascale's HyperCloud configuration, simulation runtimes of memory intensive applications can be reduced on average by 15%. This has the potential to accelerate key portions of the design cycle, thereby reducing design risk and delivering more efficient use of the very expensive backend tools during System On Chip runs. Cirrascale's HyperCloud configuration will enable designs to successfully complete with fewer licenses. The cost of most of these licenses are in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Therefore the avoidance of purchasing a single license will deliver an immediate ROI."

"Cirrascale's qualification and Deopli's EDA runtime benchmarks of HyperCloud highlight the significant end user benefits that HyperCloud delivers to HPC," said Steve McClure vice president of worldwide sales and marketing of Netlist. "HyperCloud breaks traditional memory speed and capacity limitations. Delivering 288GB at 1333MT/s in a dual Intel 5600 processor server provides Cirrascale's EDA customers a significant advantage in time to market and total project costs by reducing simulation runtimes."

Cirrascale is currently in production with its VB1325 server blade, offering 8GB and 16GB HyperCloud memory.