Starboard Announces Sparsix

28-Nov-05

Starboard Ventures announces formation of Sparsix Corporation

Starboard Ventures LLC is pleased to announce that it and ZAO Intellectual Processor Systems, a privately-held Russian company that researches and develops technology that increases data processing efficiency, have formed Sparsix Corporation, a Delaware corporation.

Sparsix’s technology

Businesses that use high-performance computers to analyze complex simulations of real-world problems are discovering that they can no longer rely solely on increases in computer processing power to improve overall simulation performance. Even if these businesses use the fastest processors available, complex computer simulations of certain real-world problems are slowed by the interaction of iterative mathematical methods, large irregular sparse data sets and conventional computer memory architectures.

As businesses and their customers demand quicker, more detailed solutions, these computer simulations of real-world environments are becoming ever more complex. Sparsix believes that the market is recognizing that the next series of advances in computing power will come in large part from advances in memory management. To address this need, Sparsix has identified bottlenecks in data management, memory architecture and memory management, and is developing the first of a series of products to accelerate time-to-solution for these complex computer simulations.

Sparsix’s team

Sparsix is based in San Francisco and is directed by its president, Daniel Considine.

The eight-person Sparsix technology team, which is based near Moscow, is comprised of mathematicians, physicists, electrical engineers and programmers, and has expertise in computational physics, numerical methods, high-performance computing systems design, programming, compiler design and solver design.

The technology team is directed by Oleg Diyankov, Sparsix’s vice president for research and development. Mr. Diyankov has authored or co-authored more than 70 papers on topics such as computational fluid dynamics, computational magneto-hydrodynamics, numerical algorithms for linear systems solutions and plasma physics. He earned his Ph.D. from the Institute for Mathematics and Mechanics at the Russian Academy of Science (Moscow), with a specialty in Numerical Mathematics.

For more information

To learn more about Sparsix, email info@sparsix.com.