COLUMBIA, Md., July 11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Eurotech, a leading
company in embedded and supercomputing technologies, announces that
it has received a $5.6 million USD
order from Selex Elsag for supply of a HPC (High-Performance
Computing) system of the Aurora family. Delivery is scheduled to
take place in some steps during the next 9 months.
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Selex Elsag, strategic unit of the Finmeccanica group in the
defence and security electronics segment, will employ Eurotech's
supercomputer in the emerging field of cyber security. For some
years now use of HPCs outside the academic and scientific world has
been growing and the ever-increasing digitalization of information
also requires the security segment to process millions of data very
fast, in just a few seconds. One of the most important requirements
in the security segment – but also the most difficult to meet – is
minimization of the impact of the time taken for checks on
activities' actual execution times, particularly in the case of
financial transactions, or if it is necessary not to give any
evidence that a certain activity is subject to massive
cross-checks. Whence the emergence of the tangible need for
supercomputers, able to perform the large number of checks required
in an extremely short time.
In addition, modern methods for the identification of cyber
crimes increasingly involve techniques featuring cross-analysis of
data coming from several different sources – and these techniques
further increase the computing capacity required.
"We are very pleased that Selex Elsag has chosen our
supercomputer for a fast-expanding application like cyber
security," commented Roberto Siagri, Eurotech's Chairman and CEO.
"Right from the start, Aurora architecture has been conceived to be
used effectively not only for scientific research but also in the
industrial and services domains – and this order confirms the
rightness of our vision."
THE EUROTECH GROUP
Eurotech (ETH.MI) is a global company based in Italy and with subsidiaries in Europe, North
America and Asia. The
Eurotech Group develops and markets miniaturized computers for
special uses (NanoPCs) and computers featuring high computing
capacity (HPCs – High Performance Computers). With these two
product categories Eurotech aims to become a leader in the
implementation of the pervasive computing scenario which, by
exploiting the Cloud IT infrastructure, is capable of enabling an
entire range of value-added activities and services in the
transport, logistics, security, industrial and medical sectors.
SOURCE Eurotech