A supercomputer in a blade was unveiled Wednesday by Silicon Graphics. The company has constructed the product from dual Xilinx Virtex 4 FPGAs to create a high-performance computing (HPC) configuration that features a low cost and small footprint for the HPC universe.

The SGI RASC (Reconfigurable Application-Specific Computing) RC100 computation blade leverages the inherent parallelism of the Xilinx FPGAs and in the process creates an HPC solution that has the power of dozens of supercomputer nodes in a single blade, SGI said.