Intel Eases Use of FPGA Acceleration:
Combines Platforms, Software Stack and Ecosystem Solutions to Maximize
Performance and Lower Data Center Costs
Intel announced a comprehensive hardware and software
platform solution to enable faster deployment of customized field
programmable gate array (FPGA)-based acceleration of networking, storage
and computing workloads.
Complex data-intensive applications in the areas of genomics,
finance, industry 4.0 and other disciplines are pushing the boundaries
of data center capabilities. Intel® FPGA-based acceleration exploits
massively parallelized hardware offloading to maximize performance and
power efficiency of data centers.
The new solution abstracts the complexities of implementation to
enable architects and developers to quickly develop and deploy
power-efficient acceleration of a variety of applications and workloads.
This consists of three major elements:
Intel-qualified FPGA acceleration platforms that operate seamlessly with Intel® Xeon® CPUs
The Acceleration Stack for Intel Xeon CPU with FPGAs that provide
industry standard frameworks, interfaces and optimized libraries
Growing ecosystem of market-specific solutions
As
the first in a family of Intel® Programmable Acceleration Cards, today
Intel is unveiling the Intel Programmable Acceleration Card with the
Intel® Arria® 10 GX FPGA enabled by the acceleration stack.
This new platform approach enables Original Equipment Manufacturers
(OEMs), such as Dell EMC, to offer Intel Xeon processor-based server
acceleration solutions with their unique value add.
“Dell EMC continues to be committed to delivering technology that
helps our customers transform their business and IT,” said Brian Payne,
vice president, Product Management and Marketing, Server Solutions
Division, Dell EMC. “With this collaboration, Dell EMC and Intel are
combining a reliable platform with an emerging software ecosystem that
provides a new technology capability for customers to unlock their
business potential.”
“Intel is making it easier for server equipment makers such as Dell
EMC to exploit FPGA technology for data acceleration as a ready-to-use
platform,” said Dan McNamara, corporate vice president and general
manager of Intel’s Programmable Solutions Group. “With our ecosystem
partners, we are enabling the industry with point solutions with a
substantial boost in performance while preserving power and cost
budgets.”
The Intel Programmable Acceleration Card with Intel Arria 10 GX FPGA
is sampling now and is expected to be broadly available in the first
half of 2018.
