MIDVALE,
Utah, Aug. 11 -- Midvale, Utah based Star Bridge Systems, http://www.starbridgesystems.com,
announced today the delivery of the first products using the company's
new reconfigurable computer technology. Star Bridge delivered two HAL-15GrW1
Hypercomputers today to CeriStar, Inc., a Salt Lake City telecommunications
company.
Each HAL-15GrW1 is a desktop machine with processing power equal to
10,000 750 MHz Pentium III processors. Star Bridge will receive License
and Lease fees of $685,000 for each system under a $20 million license
that calls for delivery of a total of 32 machines to CeriStar over the
next eleven months.
CeriStar's Marketing Vice President, Dane Goodfellow, said CeriStar
plans to use the two machines delivered today to develop software for
a high-speed platform for Internet telephone communications. He said
the remaining machines will be used as components in high speed networks.
Goodfellow added: "Star Bridge's technology is a key factor in our
plans to provide enhanced services in an IP Network that has the potential
to bring consumers dramatic cost savings, excellent voice quality, and
enhanced application capability. With Star Bridge's equipment, we expect
development time, manufacturing costs and costs of operation all to
be lower than with circuit-based or packet-based equipment available
from other manufacturers."
Alfred
J. DiMora, CEO of Star Bridge, said the delivery to CeriStar marks
the completion of the first version of Star Bridge's new Viva software
system. He said, "The combination of Viva running on our Hypercomputers
represents the world's most advanced computing system. Together they
represent the next generation of computing. We believe that with our
hardware and software, CeriStar will have the tools to build the communications
system of tomorrow -- today."
The Hypercomputers delivered today are in reality powerful, reconfigurable
parallel processing supercomputers. Star Bridge's Chief Technology Officer,
Kent L. Gilson, said, "Our technology features both reconfigurable
and parallel processing. With it CeriStar will be able to build a network
that not only offers superior voice quality and lower cost, but also
the capacity to add numerous enhanced services to basic local and long-distance
services. These include audio and video conferencing, Internet access,
on-line billing and payment, and more."
Star Bridge develops and markets products and technology based upon
a new kind of computing technology called reconfigurable computing.
Executive vice president Brent D. Ward says the company calls
its reconfigurable computing technology Hypercomputing, because "it
rewrites the rules for all the design parameters for computing, including
speed, size, cost, functionality, power consumption, design time and
reliability." He said the company's technology applies to many products
in the information technology and electronics markets, from supercomputers
to PCs and from the servers that power the Internet to the wireless,
hand-held devices used to access the Internet.
