Kalray MPPA®: A New Era of Processing

Kalray MPPA®
A New Era of Processing

KALRAY, a global solution
Powerful, Low Power and
Programmable Processors

C/C++ based Software Development Kit
(SDK) for massively parallel programing

Development platform

Reference Design board
Application specific boards
Multi-MPPA® or Single-MPPA® boards

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First MPPA®-256 Chips with CMOS 28nm TSMC
Best Performance / Energy Ratio Worldwide
▪ High processing performance
▪ Very low power consumption
▪ High execution predictability &
Low Latency
▪ High-level flexible software
development environment
Available now

▪ Architecture and software scalability

World Class Experts in Parallel and High-Throughput Programming
Let’s work together to develop your innovative applications


MPPA®-256 Processor Hierarchical Architecture
256 Processing Engine cores + 32 Resource Management cores
VLIW Core

Compute Cluster

Instruction Level
Parallelism

Thread Level
Parallelism



Manycore Processor

Process Level
Parallelism

MPPA® Technology Compared to GPU & CPU
CPU
2000pJ/Instruction

GPU
200pJ/Instruction

MPPA®-256
20pJ/Instruction
Optimized for Gflops/Watt
Distributed Memory model
Low Latency

Source: Bill Dally, “To ExaScale and Beyond” - NVidia

From 10x to 100x better energy efficiency vs. CPU, GPU or FPGA


Kalray Software Development Kit
MPPA® ACCESSCORE – MPPA® ACCESSLIB

Today

2014

Standard C/C++
Programming
Environment

Dataflow
Programming
FPGA Style

Simulators,
Profilers, Debuggers
& System Trace

POSIX-Level
Programming
DSP Style

Operating Systems &
Device Drivers

Streaming
Programming
GPU Style



MPPA DEVELOPER
Development platform
▪ MPPA-256 processor and MPPA ACCESSCORE SDK
▪ Ready to use
▪ Characteristics:
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Single chip MPPA®-256 with 2x4GB DDR3
One board for MPPA® debug/probe
High end x86 CPU as host
Linux OS on host
AccessCore SDK installed
Compatible with future Multi MPPA board
Free slot for Application specific board

Available since Q4 2012 !


Board Products
Multi-MPPA®

MPPA®-Based Server

Power efficient hardware acceleration

Single-MPPA ®

Development & embedded applications


Embedded systems
Acceleration Accessory

Kalray, A new Paradigm
▪ Versatile, Agile, Flexible software platform
▪ High performance

• Best GFLOPS/W thanks to an innovative and
power efficient architecture

▪ Low Energy

• Unique GFLOPS/W/$ solution thanks to a Bestin-Class manufacturing process with industry
leaders

▪ Predictable
▪ World class expert in parallel programming
▪ We can work together with your engineers to develop your innovative applications



A detailed version of this presentation is available
upon request

▪ Please contact us @ following emails:
▪ usa@kalray.eu for North America
▪ japan@kalray.eu for Japan
▪ info@kalray.eu for any other locations



Kalray Offices
Headquarters
(Paris area)

Grenoble office

Japan office

USA office

445 rue Lavoisier,
38 330 Montbonnot
France

86 rue de Paris,
91 400 Orsay
France
Tel: +33 (0)1 69 29 08 16
email: info@kalray.eu

CVML, 3-22-1, Toranomon,
Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0001,
Japan

Sunnyvale, CA
USA

Tel: +33 (0)4 76 18 09 18
email: info@kalray.eu

Tel: +81 80-4660-2122
email: japan@kalray.eu

Tel: +1 408-475-0550
email: usa@kalray.eu

MPPA, ACCESSCORE and the Kalray logo are trademarks or registered
trademarks of Kalray in various countries.
All trademarks, service marks, and trade names are the marks of the respective owner(s), and any unauthorized use thereof is strictly prohibited.
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