DENVER, Nov. 16, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Xilinx, Inc.
(XLNX) and Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. today jointly announced
the North American debut of the Huawei FPGA Accelerated Cloud
Server (FACS) platform at SC17. Powered by Xilinx high performance
Virtex® UltraScale™+ FPGAs, the FACS platform is differentiated in
the marketplace today.
Launched at the Huawei Connect 2017 event, the Huawei Cloud
provides FACS FP1 instances as part of its Elastic Compute Service.
These instances enable users to develop, deploy, and publish new
FPGA-based services and applications through easy-to-use
development kits and cloud-based EDA verification services. Both
expert hardware developers and high-level language users benefit
from FP1 tailored instances suited to each development flow.
The interactive demonstration at SC17 illustrates the large
performance advantage of the Huawei FACS platform compared to an
HPC class CPU-based platform through a video encoding and a
compression scenario. Highlighted demos from NGCodec and DeePhi
feature video encoding and deep learning capabilities,
respectively. The FP1 demonstrations feature Xilinx technology
which provides a 10-100x speed-up for compute intensive cloud
applications such as data analytics, genomics, video processing,
and machine learning. Huawei FP1 instances are equipped with up to
eight Virtex UltraScale+ VU9P FPGAs and can be configured in a 300G
mesh topology optimized for performance at scale. Both the cloud
service and the platform technology for on premise solutions are
highlighted in the demonstration.
The FP1 FPGA accelerated cloud service is available on the
Huawei Public Cloud today. To register for the public beta, please
visit http://www.hwclouds.com/product/fcs.html.
About Huawei
Huawei is a leading global information
and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider. Our aim is
to enrich life and improve efficiency through a better connected
world, acting as a responsible corporate citizen, innovative
enabler for the information society, and collaborative contributor
to the industry. Driven by customer-centric innovation and open
partnerships, Huawei has established an end-to-end ICT solutions
portfolio that gives customers competitive advantages in telecom
and enterprise networks, devices and cloud computing. Huawei's
180,000 employees worldwide are committed to creating maximum value
for telecom operators, enterprises and consumers. Our innovative
ICT solutions, products and services are used in more than 170
countries and regions, serving over one-third of the world's
population. Founded in 1987, Huawei is a private company fully
owned by its employees.
For more information, please visit Huawei online at
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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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