• Computational Performance: Using up to 128 Xilinx Spartan–6 LX150(T) FPGAs in a fully scalable setup, RIVYERA provides an optimal cost-benefit ratio.
• Memory: Providing 512 MB DRAM (with the option of an additional 2 GB RAM module) for each of the 128 FPGAs, RIVYERA offers enough distributed memory for any application. A dedicated connection from each FPGA provides access to an optional 128 GB shared memory card. Of course, the regular extremely high speed block RAM of the FPGAs is also available.
• Additional Memory: Oftentimes, algorithms require look-ups in larger tables. With RIVYERA, you have the option to have one 32-GB SDHC card expansion per FPGA (4 TB total) to further enhance the distributed computation capabilities.

• x86 Processing Power: Joining standard x86 based architectures with high performance FPGA technology, RIVYERA allows your CPU to do what it has been originally designed for: Lower-performance, general purpose computing. Focusing on a hybrid computing approach, users can leave significant parts of their codes with little to no adjustments on the host-PC and only execute the most intensive parts of the application on the FPGAs.
• FPGA Acceleration: Xilinx is one of the worlds leaders in high density FPGA technology and this shows in SciEngines massively parallel setups. RIVYERA S6-LX150(T) provides typical speedups from 1500 to 15000 CPU cores (depending on the algoritm) and thus easily surpasses competitive technologies like GPU computing or other FPGA-based products.
• High Speed Bus System: Offering interconnection technics from PCI-Express to Infiniband, SciEngines RIVYERA based platforms ensure to transport their backplane bandwidth into your IT-infrastructure.

• Unix Stability: RIVYERA utilizes an enterprise scale open source based LINUX OS. Oracle Enterprise Linux provides the reliability and power you expect from any PC operating system and seamlessly fits into your cluster set-up. It behaves "just like any other server in the network" and is simply orders of magnitude faster.
• Windows Flexebility: You would like to have Microsoft Windows preinstalled on your machine: No problem. SciEngines is Microsoft certified partner.
• Platform Support: Featuring APIs based on C, C++, Java, VHDL and Verilog, RIVYERA ensures to support nearly every platform. An easy to use communication framework together with a set of demo application enables rapid target application and algorithm integration.

The new RIVYERA S6-LX150(T) has a number of configuration options and, in addition to the FPGAs block RAM, provides 512 MB DDR3 RAM, optionally additional 2 GB DDR3 RAM and optionally up to 32 GB SDHC memory per FPGA. Depending on the number of FPGAs within your configuration of choice, several hundred GB RAM and several TB of SDHC become available. Each FPGA accesses its local RAM with a bandwidth of up to 3.2 GB/s (see below graph for more detail), which leads to an enormous data-access rate of 200+ GB/s in a 16 cards / 128 FPGA setup - if the algorithms are suitable for such distributed processing.

Additionally, the option to use shared memory has been improved with this newest RIVYERA generation. In the current revision, up to 128 GB of shared memory are available and each FPGA can access these resources via a dedicated link, which it uses exclusively. This results in a bandwidth of 800 MB/s per FPGA to the shared memory, which scales linearly with the number of FPGAs. A fully equipped RIVYERA S6-LX150(T) thus provides more than 100 GB/s datarate.

Last, not least, full as well als partial memory copy from the integrated host-PC to the shared memory card is supported via the API, in addition to all the API's usual and well-liked features like broadcasting, individual addressing of FPGAs and (partial) reconfiguration during run-time.

Our goal is to provide our customers the maximum of quality and reliabilty they could expect for their money. Using industry and military proven components and technics SciEngines products and especially RIVYERA offers one of the most reliable high performance reconfigurable platforms worldwide. All our products are testet in an 48h stress-test to ensure minimum failures. Continuously thermal monitoring and redundant supplies allow our architecture to ensure operation even in tough environmental conditions. Some of our systems are running since 2006 24/7 at a German governmental association without any error nor fail or need of any maintenance.