references but its sources remain unclear because it has insufficient inline citations . please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations . march 2015 learn how and when to remove this template message eurotech s.p.a. company logo type public bit eth industry embedded computers founded 1992 headquarters amaro udine italy key people roberto siagri president & ceo products embedded boards & modules embedded systems pervasive computing devices supercomputers number of employees 354 end of december 2013 website eurotech.com eurotech is a company dedicated to the research development production and marketing of miniature computers nanopcs and high performance computers hpcs . contents 1 description 2 history 3 operating units 4 research cooperation with universities 5 markets and products 6 2013 products 7 see also 8 notes 9 references 10 external links description edit created in 1992 eurotech is a global company that operates in multiple countries . it follows the technological paradigm of pervasive computing . the concept of pervasive or ubiquitous computing involves miniaturisation and the distribution in the environment of intelligent devices and their possibility of communicating . in this respect nanopcs and hpcs are the two major classes of devices that by connecting to and co operating form a computing infrastructure labeled the pervasive grid or pervasive computing grid . history edit 1995 eurotech was the first to introduce a pc 104 module based on the intel 32 bit 486dx processor . 1997 the company inked agreements with european distributors . eurotech moved its headquarters to amaro province of udine in north east italy and the company became a joint stock company italian short form s.p.a. . 1998 eurotech signed distribution agreements in america asia and australia . eurotech set up neuricam s.p.a. a spin off of the trento institute for scientific and technological research . 1 1999 eurotech started to co operate with infn italian institute of nuclear physics for the study and implementation of its third generation of array processor experiment supercomputers called apemille . 2 eurotech s hpc business unit began with this cooperation . 3 2000 the company opened a commercial branch in the united states and announced clusters based on compactpci . 2001 the private equity fund first gen e of meliorbanca spa and friulia development finance company of the friuli venezia giulia region invested 3 7 million euros . 2002 the company acquired ips sistemi programmabili s.r.l. varese italy . 2003 eurotech acquired parvus corporation salt lake city usa . 2004 eurotech acquired french company erim d veloppement s.a.s and finnish company vikerkaar oy now eurotech france and eurotech finland respectively . 2005 the company presented its apenext supercomputer realized in collaboration with infn . a research centre on pervasive computing was activated at nanjing university of technology njut in china . the group created a scientific committee dedicated to identifying future trends . to finance its international growth eurotech went public on 30 november . the company is listed in the star segment high performance equities segment of the italian stock exchange borsa italiana raising 23.64 million euros at ipo . 4 2006 eurotech acquired arcom control systems ltd based in cambridge england and arcom control systems inc. based in kansas us . the company created ethlab in the trento area to become the group s research centre . eurotech issued common shares for a total value of 109.24 million . it presented the first prototype of the wrist worn computer zypad at the 2006 soldier technologies conference in london and winning the prize for the most innovative product . eurotech signed a partnership agreement with finmeccanica spa . 2007 eurotech acquired applied data systems ads an american company controlling 65 % of chinese r & d company vantron . in september arcom control systems ltd changed its name to eurotech ltd. in october eurotech acquired the 65 % of the outstanding shares of the japanese group advanet . 2008 the company presented janus the new generation of supercomputers born from an italian spanish collaboration involving several universities and research institutes . eurotech completed the merger between united states based subsidiaries arcom control systems inc and applied data systems into eurotech inc which became the main us subsidiary . on 5 november finmeccanica acquired 11.1 % of eurotech . 5 at the ceremony held for the business connections award given by intel s embedded communications alliance eca eurotech receives the 2008 prize for excellence for the best growth in co selling of the intel atom processor . 2009 eurotech wins the platinum award 2008 from vdc research group in the embedded board vendor category . eurotech joins prospect e.v. promotion of supercomputing and petacomputing technologies a leading european consortium for the development and use of next generation supercomputers headed by three institutions the j lich supercomputing centre the barcelona supercomputing centre and the leibniz rechenzentrum garching . at the international supercomputer conference isc 2009 in hamburg eurotech unveils aurora a revolutionary hpc system that sets a record in footprint reduction and dramatically cuts tco total cost of ownership for installations of every size with an energy saving of up to 60 % due to a direct liquid cooling system . 2010 eurotech announces the introduction of aurora au 5600 the green supercomputer with liquid cooling based on the cutting edge intel xeon 5600 processor . eurotech and wind river announce a strategic partnership to accelerate the development of embedded applications specific development kits will allow software developers to being the development of an application in less than an hour whereas the traditional systems require days if not weeks . this way the two companies plan to bring the ready to use experience of pcs to the embedded market . the eurotech everyware device cloud solution wins the best electronic design 2010 prize in the embedded cloud computing category as described in the 9 december issue of electronic design . 2011 eurotech acquires the remaining shares of advanet inc equal to 10 % of the share capital and thus obtains 100 % of the japanese subsidiary . dynatem inc becomes part of the group . from its headquarters in mission viejo california the company has worked in the embedded computer market since 1981 especially in the vme vpx and cpci boards sectors . connected world magazine places eurotech on the cw 100 list for leadership in the m2m technology and connected devices sector . the cw 100 list represents the best companies that are driving the market and that are involved in the introduction of new technologies for connectivity . this list provides a guide of companies that make the difference in the interconnection of devices and m2m technologies selected by the editors of the connected world magazine . eurotech and ibm donate the message queuing telemetry transport mqtt protocol to the open source eclipse foundation community with the declared intent of creating a new standard for the connectivity of the internet of things . the software in question initially developed by ibm and eurotech is today used for various mobile applications . the main european suppliers of hpc technologies such as allinea arm bull caps entreprise eurotech partec st microelectronics and xyratex associated with bsc cea cineca fraunhofer forschungszentrum juelich and lrz research centers join forces to create a european technology platform pte starting from the prospect and teratec work results . the main pte objective is to coordinate all european forces involved in the hpc sector including sme large european and international companies and research centers proposing an ambitious research plan to the european commission . 2012 eurotech develops the gpu accelerated supercomputer with the highest density in the hpc sector . the supercomputer will be able to offer a performance of more than 500 teraflops per cabinet with an energy efficiency of more than three gflops per watt reaching a unique and unparalleled result in terms of performance and energy efficiency in this way . cineca the largest italian computing center selects eurotech to develop the eurora prototype supercomputer . the new aurora tigon product will be the technological basis for the development of the eurora prototype . cineca will use this new prototype in various computational science fields like the study of the fundamental constituents the physics of condensed matter astrophysics biology and earth science . the japanese subsidiary advanet has received a letter of appreciation from the riken and jasri japan synchrotron radiation research institute research institutes for its help in creating the xfel x ray free electron laser system called sacla acronym for spring 8 angstrom compact free electron laser which became fully operative during 2012 . advanet one of the first collaborators for the project contributed to the development of the spring 8 accelerator control system the largest third generation synchrotron in the world for 15 years through the supply of high speed analog i o boards and data processing boards . 2013 the computerworld honors has named eurotech powered sensuss application as a 2013 laureate . the annual award program honors visionary applications of information technology promoting positive social economic and educational change . eurotech and sensuss m2m application provide real time assessments that protect the athlete from further potential harm . eurotech scored both the first and second place of the green 500 the ranking of the most energy efficient supercomputers in the world with the eurora supercomputer installed at cineca and the aurora tigon supercomputer installed at the finmeccanica company selex es specialised in information technology and security . eurora the supercomputer of cineca entered in first place with 3210 mflop s per watt while the system of selex es aurora tigon was ranked 2nd with a value of 3180 mflop s per watt . 6 eurotech has signed an agreement with curtiss wright controls inc. a segment of curtiss wright corporation for the sale of 100 % of the share capital of parvus corporation the american fully owned subsidiary of the eurotech group specialized in embedded computers and cots subsystems for the us defence market . 7 operating units edit the eurotech group is composed of nine main operating units eurotech s.p.a. is the parent company based in amaro udine italy . it designs and produces nanopc modules systems and devices for the transportation defence medical and industrial sectors . eurotech develops manufactures and sells intelligent human to machine h2m and machine to machine m2m interfaces for harsh industrial applications . eurotech has also a division active in the field of hpcs which designs produces and markets high performance computers for extremely demanding applications these supercomputers are used in the fields of nano and bio technologies healthcare high energy physics and in other applications requiring complex simulations and hence a great computational power . ethlab is the group s research centre based in the trento area and has a satellite office in amaro udine close to the group s headquarters . eurotech france is based in lyon france . it operates in the field of nanopcs mainly in the transportation and in the industrial sectors . eurotech france participates to the united nations global compact the world s largest corporate citizenship and sustainability initiative . eurotech ltd is based in cambridge uk and operates in the field of nanopcs and emphasizing industrial and communication sectors . eurotech inc is based in columbia maryland usa and has a satellite office in kansas city kansas usa . it designs and builds embedded systems for the transportation and the industrial sectors . eurotech inc is an associate member of intel s embedded and communications alliance . 8 advanet group is based in okayama japan . it manufactures single board computers i o data acquisition and communications products for embedded systems markets . advanet products include vme compactpci pci & pmc boards for powerpc and intel pentium architectures . vantron is located in chengdu in china s sichuan province . it develops hardware and software components for embedded solutions and offers embedded platforms for mobile and multimedia applications to its local market