Belfast-based tech start-up Titan IC has announced a significant licensing agreement with Mellanox Technologies Ltd.
Originally a spin-out from Queen’s University, Titan IC has developed hardware called Regular eXpression Processor (RXP).
Titan IC said RXP will accelerate complex searches and pattern detection enabling better detection and blocking of malicious activities in real time to help prevent cyberattacks from spreading further.
This latest announcement is a significant breakthrough for Titan IC and will see RXP embedded in the new Mellanox BlueField-2 I/O Processing Unit (IPU) that empowers the next generation of secure cloud SmartNIC and Controller solutions.
The firm claims RXP enables very high-speed search across a wide range of applications including cybersecurity, cloud and database acceleration, Natural Language Processing (NLP), edge computing and computational storage.
Shlomit Weiss, senior vice president of Silicon Engineering at Mellanoxexplained: “BlueField-2 has been designed as an IPU for the most demanding workloads in the cloud or at the network edge. In order to provide superior search acceleration, we chose to add the innovative RXP from Titan IC to our IPUs because of its massively parallel RegEx processing capabilities and performance benefits.”
Noel McKenna, CEO of Titan IC commented: “We are delighted that RXP has been selected by Mellanox to accelerate complex search on the BlueField-2 IPU. By offloading compute-intensive searching, RXP frees up CPU cores, delivering unprecedented levels of performance for those building highly secure, efficient compute and storage infrastructures.”
