LucidLogix HYDRA Chip Ends Up on New ELSA Product

ELSA Japan, a leading manufacturer of computer graphics solutions, has announced that it developed the first product that will be designed to integrate Lucid's HYDRA chip. The chip developed by Lucid has enabled ELSA to provide a cost effective solution for multi-GPU configurations, with support for GPUs from any graphics chip vendor. Said product has been specifically built for the high-performance computing market with a focus on the HPC, broadcast and medical segments.

 

“We are pleased to partner with ELSA, which has the reputation for providing leading performance computing solutions to the Japanese market. ELSA’s selection of Lucid products for graphics and high performance computing platforms demonstrates our commitment to deliver a unique and powerful parallel processing architecture,” said Offir Remez, president of Lucid. “HYDRA technology will allow ELSA to combine multiple GPUs on one device, for efficient, high performance in compute intensive, large scale visualization scenarios.”

 

The product is expected to make its debut on the market at the end of March 2009, with initial products providing support for dual and quad GPU configurations. The collaboration between the two companies will provide the high-performance market with a product that can deliver support for multi-GPU configurations. However, unlike similar technologies from the two leading GPU manufacturers, NVIDIA and AMD, the new Lucid Hydra technology supports GPUs from any vendor. That will provide for a more affordable price point.

 

“Partnership with Lucid is very important for our customers who require high performance computer. We can provide scalable performance and configurable solutions to break through the performance barrier.” said Jun Nagai, president, ELSA Japan.

 

Lucid's HYDRA chip has previously been rumored that it will be integrated in Intel's next-generation Smackover II motherboard. This will provide computer enthusiasts with the option of taking advantage of Intel's highest performance desktop processors, alongside a multi-GPU graphics setup, with support for any graphics card available on the market.