SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 14, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Xilinx, Inc.
(NASDAQ: XLNX) today at SC16 unveiled a new suite of technology
designed to enable the world's largest cloud service providers to
rapidly develop and deploy acceleration platforms. Designed for
cloud scale applications, the FPGA-powered Xilinx® Reconfigurable
Acceleration Stack includes libraries, framework integrations,
developer boards, and OpenStack support. It provides the fastest
path to realize 40x better compute efficiency with Xilinx FPGAs
compared to x86 server CPUs and up to six times the compute
efficiency over competitive FPGAs. Using dynamic
reconfiguration, Xilinx enables silicon optimization for the
broadest set of performance-demanding workloads including machine
learning, data analytics, and video transcoding. These workload
optimizations can be done in milliseconds by swapping in the most
optimal design bitstream.
Today Xilinx FPGAs enable hyperscale data centers to achieve
2-6x the compute efficiency in machine learning inference, derived
from DSP architectural advantages for limited precision data types,
superior on-chip memory resources, and greater than one year
technology lead over FPGA competition.
The Xilinx Reconfigurable Acceleration Stack includes math
libraries designed for cloud computing workloads, application
libraries integrated with major frameworks, such as Caffe for
machine learning, a PCIe®-based development board and reference
design for high density servers, and an OpenStack support package
making Xilinx FPGA-based accelerators easy to provision and
manage.
"Flexibility and feature velocity – the ability to add new
features rapidly through software – are important for hyperscale's
complex and constantly changing application landscape," said
Karl Freund, senior analyst, Machine
Learning, for Moor Insights & Strategy. "The capability to
reconfigure and optimize the accelerator as algorithms evolve – as
Xilinx claims – is a compelling advantage in hyperscale
environments."
"The new stack accelerates mainstream adoption of our FPGAs in
hyperscale data centers," said Nazeem
Noordeen, corporate vice president, IP Solutions at Xilinx.
"It delivers the fastest path to realize 2-6x the compute
efficiency over FPGA competition."
Availability
The Xilinx Reconfigurable Acceleration
Stack is available to all major cloud service providers
today. To learn more visit the Xilinx Acceleration Zone at
www.xilinx.com/accelerationstack.
About Xilinx
Xilinx is the leading provider of All
Programmable FPGAs, SoCs, MPSoCs, and 3D ICs. Xilinx uniquely
enables applications that are both software defined and hardware
optimized – powering industry advancements in Cloud Computing,
Embedded Vision, Industrial IoT, and 5G Wireless. For more
information, visit www.xilinx.com.
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