HANGZHOU, China, Oct. 12, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Xilinx, Inc.
(NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced at the Computing Conference that
Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing
arm of Alibaba Group, has chosen Xilinx for next generation FPGA
acceleration in their public cloud. As the largest cloud provider
in China, Alibaba Cloud offers high-performance, elastic
computing power to over two million customers. Based on Xilinx®
FPGAs, the new "F2" instances give Alibaba
Cloud customers access to acceleration for data analytics,
genomics, video processing, and machine learning workloads.
Faced with exponential growth in computing requirements and the
inability for CPU technology to keep pace, today's cloud providers
are moving toward accelerated computing architectures. FPGA
accelerators compliment CPU-based architectures and deliver both
performance and power efficiency working in tandem with a server's
CPU. Alibaba Cloud has recently
revealed that the processing efficiency of F2 instances can be up
to 30 times higher than CPUs alone, resulting in more cost
effective cloud solutions.
"Xilinx FPGAs deliver the performance, flexibility, and
application breadth needed by today's ever changing cloud
workloads," said Steve Glaser,
Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategy at Xilinx. "F2 instances
offer the opportunity to develop and publish hardware-accelerated
data center applications to millions of customers on Alibaba Cloud."
"FPGAs are popular general-purpose parallel accelerators meeting
the evolving computing needs of data center workloads. We look
forward to working with Xilinx to harness advancements in
heterogeneous computing," said Jin
Li, Vice President of Alibaba
Cloud.
Access to F2 instances on Alibaba
Cloud is available today.
About Xilinx
Xilinx is the leading provider of All Programmable FPGAs, SoCs,
MPSoCs, RFSoCs, and 3D ICs. Xilinx uniquely enables applications
that are both software defined and hardware optimized – powering
industry advancements in Cloud Computing, Video/Vision, Industrial
IoT, and 5G Wireless. For more information, visit
www.xilinx.com.
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