Using advanced FPGA technology Merrick3 delivers an unrivalled scalable processing platform. Used stand alone, in a large multi-board system, or as a personal computer accelerator, it can deliver a processing capability up to 1000 times that of the more conventional X86 processor.

The Merrick3 is based on an array of 24 Xilinx™ Spartan™-6 FPGAs and 16 DDR3 memories. Supported by two further FPGAs offering high speed  data communications and nearly instantaneous on the fly reconfiguration the platform delivers processing performance generally unobtainable in a standard personal computer.

Merrick3 is based on the standard PCI Express card format. The standard PCI Express interface offers high bandwidth data transfer between the board and a hosting motherboard. Using standard ATX motherboards, within standard PC cases, a small but high performance HPC system can be formed for difficult science and technology processing tasks. Going further, and for more advanced processing requirements, Enterpoint can supply turnkey solutions based on custom designed motherboards to construct systems of up to 10,000 boards and a resultant massive processing capability.   

‘The combination of low power and enormous logic capability of the Xilinx™ Spartan™-6 FPGA family has allowed us to build a high performance processing (HPC) platform that delivers 1000X performance of a X86 processor whilst consuming a similar, or even smaller, operating power envelope. This not only brings an obvious operational cost saving to completing processing tasks but more significantly results in smaller lower cost cooling systems.’ says John Adair CEO of Enterpoint. 

Merrick3 will be showing at SC11, November 15th to 17th, in Seattle USA and is available to order immediately.