ClearSpeed Technology will present “An evening with Ray Kurzweil” on November 10, 2004 at the Omni Hotel in Pittsburgh, organized in parallel to SC2004, the annual conference on high performance computing, networking and storage. Kurzweil will discuss exponential trends in these areas.

ClearSpeed is developing microprocessors that will make possible “a teraflop [one trillion floating point operations per second] supercomputer on a desktop computer in 18 months,” said Mike Calise, President of ClearSpeed. At the show, the company will simulate its CSX600 co-processor, capable of 25 gigaflops of sustained performance running at just 5 watts in a single chip.