[1] The company was founded as Flow Computing in 2002 by Stefan Möhl, Pontus Borg, Andreas Rodman and Christian Merheim to commercialize a massively parallel reconfigurable processor implemented on FPGAs.
The SDK includes a parallel C-family language called Mitrion-C used to program the Mitrion Virtual Processor.
Since the Mitrion Virtual Processor can be programmed in software, FPGAs become easier to use as computer accelerators than using hardware design tools such as VHDL or Verilog.
The Mitrionics technology claims to make supercomputing performance acceleration accessible to an entire new market of scientists and developers previously unable to benefit from it because of high prices, complex design skills needed, and extremely long development times.
The Mitrion Platform was launched in 2005 and has been used by many of the world's leading supercomputing organizations including NCSA, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, George Washington University, McGill University, National Cancer Institute and Konrad-Zuse Institute Berlin.