The Maynard, Massachusetts-based company ran its demonstration at the NextFest event in Los Angeles last week to prove that it is capable of performing high-performance calculations at low levels of power consumption.
The demo saw the Jax Racing cycle team riding eight bicycles to power a SiCortex SC648 as it carried out an advanced genomics computation from the US Department of Agriculture that designed to uncover new insect species.
Each of the cyclists produced an average of 260 watts each to power the SC648, which offers 648 gigaflops of 64-bit processing performance, 864GB of memory, and 240Gbps of I/O capacity, and is designed for departmental users, according to the company.
