Hardware Acceleration Solutions

The aXware and CIB solutions are unique SEMCAD X performance enhancing hardware options. The aXware Accelerator, a simple PCIe add-in card for your computer, and the aXware ClusterInABox, a multi-accelerator workstation, drastically reduce your application runtimes from hours to minutes without compromising accuracy!
Further reducing the runtime by factors of 10 to 50 or more, even Genetic Algorithm based optimization of CAD data becomes now feasible within a few hours only.
This dedicated hardware specifically optimized for FDTD and high bandwidth accelerator memory has proven to be more efficient and cost-effective than multi-processor workstations or multi-node clusters by heavily decreasing initial and long-term maintenance costs.

For more information on the exact performance figures, check the Performance section.

aXware Card: V1.0

Interface	PCIx16 express
Speed	up to 200 Mcells/s (typical: 150 Mcells/s)
Speedup	5-10x
Simulation Size (fully accelerated)	14 Mcells*
Memory on Card	512 MB
General Comment	The V1.5 card is an affordable solution to easily accelerate midrange simulations

 aXware Card: V2.0

Interface	PCIx16 express
Speed	up to 400 Mcells/s (typical: 300 Mcells/s)
Speedup	10-20x
Simulation Size (fully accelerated)	28 Mcells*
Memory on Card	1 GB
General Comment	The V2.0 card is an affordable solution to easily accelerate midrange simulations

* "Soft Memory Limit" – larger simulations supported when sharing memory with the host

aXware Card: V3.0

Interface	PCIx16 express
Speed	up to 500 Mcells/s (typical: 350 Mcells/s)
Speedup	10-25x
Simulation Size (fully accelerated)	40 Mcells*
Memory on Card	1.5 GB
General Comment	The V3.0 card is an affordable solution to easily accelerate medium to large range simulations and is ideal for optimization problems
Power Supply	1kW

* "Soft Memory Limit" – larger simulations supported when sharing memory with the host

Cluster-in-a-Box Solutions: CiB800, CIB1000 (Dual) & CiB1500 (Quad)

Platform	64bit Workstation, Windows XP Pro 64 / Linux 64
CiB800	2 x V2.0 cards installed in parallel
	Speed	up to 800 Mcells/s (typical: 500 Mcells/s)
	Speedup	15-30x
	Simulation Size (fully accelerated)	1-75 Mcells*
	Memory on Cards	2 GB
	General Comment	The CiB800 offers an easily maintainable workstation with simulation performance equivalent to a 64-node supercomputer. Highly complex industrial applications can be simulated.
CiB1000	2 x V3.0 cards installed in parallel (dual, 1x subchassis)
	Speed	up to 1500 Mcells/s (typical: 1000 Mcells/s)
	Speedup	30-40x
	Simulation Size (fully accelerated)	1-128 Mcells*
	Memory on Cards	3 GB
	General Comment	The CiB1000 offers an easily maintainable workstation with simulation performance equivalent to a multi-node supercomputer. Highly complex industrial applications can be simulated.
CiB1500	4 x V3.0 cards installed in parallel (quad, 2x subchassis)
	Speed	up to 1700 Mcells/s (typical: 1100 Mcells/s)
	Speedup	30-50x
	Simulation Size (fully accelerated)	1-200 Mcells*
	Memory on Cards	6 GB
	General Comment	The CiB1500 offers an easily maintainable workstation with simulation performance equivalent to a 128-node supercomputer. Highly complex industrial applications can be simulated.