Welcome to Intesym Ltd.
Intesym Ltd. is a British R&D electronics engineering company based in the North-East of England. It specialises in finding and developing novel approaches to large-scale parallel computation and high-speed implementation of algorithms in both hardware and software.
Proprietary developments have included massively parallel microprocessor & memory architectures, embedded system architectures, video controllers/accelerators, storage controllers, HPC interconnect fabrics, and image recognition & similarity systems.
Intesym offers its theoretical and engineering expertise on a consultancy basis and always welcomes the opportunity to work with other parties to develop their products.
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Idemetrics
15/Jun/2008
Idemetrics is the new name chosen by Intesym for its underlying image processing technology.
Cortica: New addition to Symbiotic family
15/Mar/2008
Utilising three major Intesym technologies, Cortica represents leading-edge idemetric processing.
A collection of custom Symbiotic processors provide high levels of fine-grained parallelism, implementing a reconfigurable receptive field with a convenient connection to conventional computers via a derivative SATAnet interface, all on a single energy-efficient microchip.
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Reconfigurable Idemetric Processor
15/Feb/2008
Intesym Ltd. has developed a new class of processor designed for use in many data-perception applications, particularly suited to machine vision, image similarity measurements, object classifications, portfolio mining, and conceptual scene understanding.
The Idemetric Processor ’s reconfigurable nature allows it to suit many different processing problems and also to dynamically adapt to varying query-data characteristics or ambiguities. As well as being a bespoke design for perceptual processing tasks, the processor also has generalised processing capabilities, and as such can support access through conventional client/server IP protocols, such as HTTP and SSH, making it an ideal basis for search engines, network-attached intelligent databases, and remote audio/visual processing facilities.
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Intesym Ltd. announces SATA-based network fabric and storage
15/Oct/2007
A revolutionary networking and storage technology for high-performance computing clusters and servers has been created by Intesym Ltd. Utilising both the Serial ATA hardware interface and protocol, Intesym’s SATAnet technology provides high-bandwidth, low-latency networking communication across a cluster of compute nodes as well as allowing all disc storage to be physically remote yet seen as local discs by each node.
For networking, performance can reach multi-gigabit per second bandwidths, limited only by the node’s motherboard, and latencies below 1µs.
For storage, similar bandwidths can be achieved and disc access latencies can be measured in microseconds instead of milliseconds.
SATAnet can be used on any hardware platform, BIOS, and operating system which supports Serial ATA disc drives, without any need for additional driver software — networking is the same as accessing a disc. Supporting libraries are available for Linux to make full use of the extensive facilities and possibilities created by this technology.
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Massively parallel programming made simple
15/Oct/2007
Following on from Intesym’s massively-parallel Symbiotic Processing computer architecture, some of the programming benefits of such a system are brought to workstations and HPC clusters in the form of Virtual Symbiotics .
Through an asynchronous object-oriented approach, Virtual Symbiotics provides C++ programmers with a very simple model for implementing massively-parallel algorithms whilst maintaining easy comprehension of the overall design of large-scale parallel programs.
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Technology in brief
Idemetrics
An image processing technology capable of, amongst other things, measuring the similarity of images, recognising contents, and understanding scenes.
SATAnet
A cluster communication interconnect which can be utilised without special drivers by any platform which supports Serial ATA connectivity regardless of architecture and operating system.
The unique approach also offers “centralised distributed” storage, allowing a physically remote disc to be accessed as a local disc — reduces heat, noise, and vibration, improves cooling, and removes points of failure within cluster nodes.
Symbiotics
Intesym’s parallel computing architecture, scalable from embedded systems to supercomputers.
Efficiently handles fine-grain concurrency levels of hundreds of thousands.
Variants include 64-bit general purpose systems and also Freeform , a parallel processor with transmuteable instructions and arbitrary precision arithmetic.
Applications in aerospace, automotive, defence, robotics, HPC scientific, and engineering sectors.
Virtual Symbiotics
A programming model for asynchronous object-oriented concurrency.
Supports high levels of parallelism with ease.
Eliminates the complexities of traditional sender/receiver models.
