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SciEngines GmbH is a privately owned company founded 2007 as a spin-off of the COPACOBANA project by the Universities of Bochum and Kiel, both in Germany. The project intended to create a platform for an affordable Custom hardware attack. COPACOBANA is a massively-parallel reconfigurable computer. It can be utilized to perform a so-called Brute force attack to recover DES encrypted data. It consists of 120 commercially available, reconfigurable integrated circuits (FPGAs). These Xilinx Spartan3-1000 run in parallel, and create a massively parallel system. Since 2007, SciEngines GmbH has enhanced and developed successors of COPACOBANA. Furthermore the COPACOBANA has become a well known reference platform for cryptanalysis and custom hardware based attacks to symmetric, asymmetric cyphers and stream ciphers. 2008 attacks against A5/1 stream cipher an encryption system been used to encrypt voice streams in GSM have been published as the first known real world attack utilizing off-the-shelf custom hardware. They introduced in 2008 their RIVYERA S3-5000 enhancing the performance of the computer dramatically via using 128 Spartan-3 5000's. Currently SciEngines RIVYERA holds the record in brute-force breaking DES utilizing 128 Spartan-3 5000 FPGAs.〔 Demonstrated at 2009 Workshop.〕 :2006 original developers of the COPACOBANA form the company :2007 introduction of the COPACOBANA (Copacobana S3-1000) as a () :2007 first demonstration of COPACOBANA 5000 :2008 they introduced RIVYERA S3-5000, the direct successor of COPACOBANA 5000 and COPACOBANA. The RIVYERA architecture introduced a new high performance optimized bus system and a fully API encapsulated communication framework. :2008 demonstration of the COPACOBANA V4-SX35, a 128 Virtex-4 SX35 FPGA cluster (COPACOBANA shared bus architecture) :2008 introduction of the RIVYERA V4-SX35, a 128 Virtex-4 SX35 FPGA cluster (RIVYERA HPC architecture) :2009 they introduced RIVYERA S6-LX150. :2010 the first release of Xilinx Virtex-6 LX550T FPGA based modes has been demonstrated recovering e.g. AES, SHA ciphers and HPC applications. :2011 they introduced 256 User usable FPGAs per RIVYERA S6-LX150 computer. :2011 world's first Xilinx Virtex-7 2000T based computer has been introduced providing an 80 GByte distributed memory and an option for 128 GByte of shared memory. Providing a standard off-the-shelf Intel CPU and mainboard integraded into the FPGA computer RIVYERA systems allow to execute most standard code without modifications. SciEngines aims that programmers only have to focus on porting the most time consuming 5% of their code to the FPGA. Therefore they bundle an Eclipse like development environment which allows code implementation in hardware based implementation languages e.g. VHDL, Verilog as well as in C based languages. An Application Programming Interface in C, C++, Java and Fortran allow scientists and programmers to adopt their code to benefit from an application-specific hardware architecture. ==References== *(CLC bio and SciEngines collaborate on 188x acceleration of BLAST ) *(www.sciengines.com (Official site) ) *(www.copacobana.org ) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「SciEngines GmbH」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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