InternetNews: Those of you who answered ClearSpeed Technology can give yourselves a pat on the back. That's the claim anyway. The fabless semiconductor company plans to demonstrate its CXS600 dual-chip board, running at 50 Gigaflops and a mere 25 watts, at the High Performance Computing on Wall Street conference Monday in New York. A single Gigaflop equals a billion floating-point computer instructions per second, and it's typically used to measure supercomputer performance.

Designed for computing- or math-intensive applications, the board fits standard PCI-X slots for workstations, servers or a cluster. Much as a graphics coprocessor speeds the performance of video games, ClearSpeed is designed to do the same in such areas as financial, life sciences, computational chemistry, biology and computer-aided design for fluid dynamics.

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