Tarari Launches Content Processor

SAN DIEGO -- Tarari Inc., a unique provider of subsystem building blocks for accelerated content processing, announced today the launch of the TarariTM Content Processor Development Kit, a combination of hardware and software-based subsystem building blocks that enable OEMs, system integrators and software vendors to quickly and cost effectively design and develop performance-optimized, dynamically reprogrammable solutions for compute-intensive applications. Integrated with the Celoxica DK Design Suite, the Content Processor Development Kit provides a flexible design environment and an extensive set of development tools and guides designed to shorten the development lifecycle from months to weeks. The Content Processor Development Kit is the first released product in Tarari’s Formula-CP Acceleration Series. Tarari Formula-CP content processors are designed for high-volume production implementations and are built on standards to facilitate integration with a wide variety of platforms.Solutions based on the Tarari Content Processor can accelerate content processing at the message and application level, which is different than processing at the packet layer. Until now, processing acceleration has focused on looking at packet headers, performing table look-ups, and forwarding the packets to their destination. Today, however, with the increased need for compute-intensive applications to run at wire speeds, system developers must perform deep analysis on a wealth of vital information that exists in the payload of messages. This processing is too complex and too compute-intensive for existing systems to perform at network speeds and input rates. This makes Tarari the first to deliver application layer content processors.“The release of the Content Processor Development Kit enables the development community to create innovative, leading-edge content processing solutions that combine wire-speed performance with reprogramming flexibility,” said Dave Finlay, vice president of marketing and sales at Tarari, Inc. “Through our combined effort with Celoxica, we are able to provide a robust development framework that software developers worldwide can use to achieve performance levels previously reserved for ASICs without suffering through protracted development cycles. Additionally, the reprogrammable capabilities enable field upgradeability allowing customers to quickly and cost-effectively adapt to changing standards and business needs, significantly reducing costs and improving responsiveness.” In a separate release:SAN DIEGO and ABINGDON, U.K. -- Tarari Inc. and Celoxica Limited today announced a development and distribution agreement that enables Celoxica DK Design Suite users to quickly and easily simulate and compile accelerated solutions with the TarariTM Content Processor Development Kit. The Content Processor Development Kit is the first released product in Tarari’s Formula-CP Acceleration Series. Tarari Formula-CP content processors are hardware and software-based building blocks (silicon, boards, etc.) that snap into servers, appliances and network devices allowing, for the first time, application layer content processing to run at network speeds. The Tarari Content Processor Development Kit enables OEMs, system integrators and software vendors to quickly and cost-effectively design and develop performance-optimized, dynamically reprogrammable solutions for accelerating compute intensive applications. As a result of today’s announcement, software developers can now use the design environment of the Celoxica DK Design Suite to shorten development and reprogramming time for content processing solutions from months to weeks.“Enabling the software development community to easily develop content processing solutions that provide both wire-speed performance and reprogramming flexibility has tremendous benefits for our customers,” said Randy Smerik, president and CEO of Tarari. “The combination of the Tarari product and Celoxica design tools provides the framework to achieve ASIC-level performance without suffering through long and risky development cycles. This means significantly reduced costs and far faster time to market.”“Accelerating the processing of application content is a critical business and technical challenge,” said Phil Bishop, CEO of Celoxica. “Celoxica and Tarari have been working together to create an integrated development environment that enables system integrators and software developers to leverage our design tools for faster development and Tarari’s standards-based, reprogrammable content processing hardware for easy integration with application environments running on servers, appliances and network devices.” Tarari Inc.Celoxica