Speed up your Business
Since its inception in 2004
Fixstars has believed in the potential of the Cell processor. The talented
engineers have successfully addressed the challenges of multi-core programming. By utilizing 100% of the Cell processors capabilities, they are able to achieve
productivity increase of ten, one hundred-fold and more in comparison to baseline systems.
Fixstars Solutions is a California corporation with its primary offices in Loveland, Colorado. Carrying forward the ten years' experience, knowledge, and
tradition of the former Terra Soft Solutions (
acquired by Fixstars in the fall of 2008),
Fixstars Solutions continues to develop Yellow Dog Linux, Yellow Dog Enterprise Linux, and a host of applications for a wide variety of Power architecture
systems, with special emphasis placed on Cell based technologies.
While our tag line is simple, the meaning is strong.
Speed up your business is about saving time, resources, and improving your bottom line. If your
code runs faster and you get more done, then we did our job well.
A Complete Cell Ecosystem
The combination of Fixstars’ products, services, and engineering expertise forms a complete Cell Broadband Engine™ (Cell/B.E.) ecosystem and client offering,
reducing time, effort, and total cost of ownership.
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Cell Optimization Services
With early customers Toshiba and Sony, Fixstars is a pioneer in developing, porting, and optimizing applications for the Cell Broadband Engine. No company has
as much experience and enthusiasm for working with this multi-core power-house, nor as much success in providing solutions to complex, sometimes challenging
problems.
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Middleware
Fixtars provides a complete ecosystem including the development environment, libraries, and framework. Fixstars offers optimnized solutions for financial
modeling, medical image processing, HDV & audio, and visual inspection of semiconductors and electronic components. In addition, Fixstars offers the Y-HPC cluster construction suite and Y-Film asset management and workflow pipeline solution for VFX studios, both
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Linux OS for Cell/B.E.
Launched in 1999 for Apple PowerPC, YDL offered the most complete, professional Linux OS for the Power architecture. Always pressing for improvement, the
former Terra Soft achieved a number of industry firsts, including first to market with commercial Linux OS for Cell and an exclusive offering for the Sony ZEGO
BCU-100. Fixstars is the proud new maintainer of Yellow Dog Linux, the only operating system in the world with support for every Cell/B.E. based product on the
market today.
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Hardware
Fixstars is pleased to offer turn-key solutions built upon Cell/B.E. based GigaAccel™ 180 (IBM PXCAB), BladeCenter® QS21/22, and Sony PS3. Should
you have interest in the ZEGO BCU-100, Fixstars will introduce you to Sony B2B. With a single GigaAccel 180 you may dramatically improve performance of your
Cell application, or assemble a cluster of GA-180 workstations for rapid, scalable growth of a distributed system, or incorporate the GA-180 into your embedded
solution for an open or blackbox turn-key solution.
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