News Summary:
- Fully composable and easy to program 100Gb/s SmartNIC delivers
line rate network function offloads
- Introduces smart world AI video analytics solutions that
provide deterministic low latency performance for the most
demanding AI video applications
- New accelerated algorithmic trading framework enables software
developers to create trading solutions that break the microsecond
latency barrier
- Launches Xilinx App Store making it easier than ever to
evaluate, purchase and deploy accelerated applications on Alveo™
cards, on-prem or cloud instances
Addressing the demands of the modern data center, Xilinx, Inc.
(NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced a range of new data center products
and solutions, including a new family of Alveo SmartNICs, smart
world AI video analytics applications, an accelerated algorithmic
trading reference design for sub-microsecond trading, and the
Xilinx App Store.
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Today’s most demanding and complex applications, from networking
and AI analytics to financial trading, require low-latency and
real-time performance. Achieving this level of performance has been
limited to expensive and lengthy hardware development. With these
new products and solutions, Xilinx is eliminating the barriers for
software developers to quickly create and deploy software-defined,
hardware accelerated applications on Alveo accelerator cards.
“Data centers are transforming to increase networking bandwidth
and optimize for workloads like artificial intelligence and
real-time analytics,” said Salil Raje, executive vice president and
general manager, Data Center Group at Xilinx. “These complex,
compute-intensive and constantly-evolving workloads are pushing
existing infrastructure to its limits and driving the need for
fully composable, software-defined hardware accelerators that
provide the adaptability to optimize today’s most demanding
applications as well as the flexibility to quickly take on new
workloads and protocols, and accelerate them at line rate.”
New Alveo SN1000 SmartNICs
The Xilinx® Alveo™ SN1000 is the industry’s first family of
composable SmartNICs offering software-defined hardware
acceleration for all function offloads. SN1000 SmartNICs directly
offload CPU intensive tasks to optimize networking performance,
with an open architecture that can accelerate a broad range of
network functions at line rate.
Using the Vitis™ Networking platform and industry standard,
high-level programming languages such as P4, C, and C++, software
developers can create network functions, protocols, and
applications that operate in hardware on the SmartNIC. Vitis
Networking allows organizations to quickly and easily compose new,
and tweak existing, network functions to handle new protocols and
applications without replacing hardware, future proofing
investments.
SN1000 SmartNICs provide software-defined hardware acceleration
for a wide range of networking, security, and storage offloads,
such as Open vSwitch and virtualization acceleration (Virtio.net).
Security offloads include IPsec, kTLS and SSL/TLS and accelerated
storage applications including Virtio.blk, NVMe™ over TCP, Ceph,
and compression and crypto services.
Industry Support
- “VMware is defining the hybrid cloud architecture for
next-generation applications with heightened security requirements.
SmartNICs will play a critical role in the VMware Cloud Foundation
architecture by giving customers a unified management, security,
and resiliency model that spans both bare metal and virtualized
environments where the composability of Xilinx Alveo SN1000
SmartNICs will provide a flexible, integrated, and qualified
solution for customers.” -- Lee Caswell, vice president of
marketing, VMware Cloud Platform Business Unit
- “Today’s software-defined data center demands flexibility and
scalability to meet the ever-changing needs of customer workloads.
The innovative composable offload framework of the Xilinx Alveo
SN1000 SmartNIC family gives Inspur the agility to adapt to
evolving customer needs by rapidly developing and deploying custom
workloads.” -- Ben Li, general manager of Network Business Unit at
Inspur
Based on the Xilinx 16nm UltraScale+™ architecture, the SN1000
family of SmartNICs are powered by the low-latency Xilinx XCU26
FPGA and a 16-core Arm® processor. SN1000 SmartNICs deliver
dual-QSFP ports for 10/25/100Gb/s connectivity with leading small
packet performance and a PCIe Gen 4 interconnect. The first model
in the family is the SN1022, which is offered in a full height,
half length form factor in a 75-Watt power envelope.
The Alveo SN1022 SmartNIC will be generally available in March
2021.
Building the Smart World with New AI Video Analytics
Platform
Xilinx is launching an AI video analytics platform with an
ecosystem of partner solutions built to accelerate the most complex
and latency-sensitive AI video inferencing applications. The Xilinx
smart world platform, powered by the Xilinx Video Machine-learning
Streaming Server, delivers whole application acceleration and can
support multiple neural networks on a single Alveo accelerator card
at deterministic sub-100ms pipeline latency. The result is the
industry’s lowest TCO for demanding AI video analytics
applications.
Xilinx smart world ecosystem solutions available today,
include:
- Aupera is offering turnkey smart city and smart retail
solutions that combine Aupera’s intelligent, video processing with
Alveo accelerators.
- Mipsology is providing a toolset for easy migration of existing
AI applications from GPU-based architectures to the Alveo platform,
as well as plug-and-play, high-performance AI inference
acceleration.
- DeepAI is delivering AI training at the edge on Alveo
accelerators with up to a 10x performance per cost advantage
compared to GPU-based solutions.
Low-Latency Electronic Trading for Everyone
Achieving sub-microsecond latency in algorithmic trading has
traditionally required costly and time-consuming hardware
development. The Vitis development platform now includes an
accelerated algorithmic trading (AAT) reference design which gives
software developers the ability to quickly and cost-effectively
deliver sub-microsecond trading performance without the need for
custom hardware development.
AAT, implemented on Alveo accelerator cards, provides a modular
design that includes all the necessary components for an
end-to-end, low-latency trading solution. Each module can be
customized using C and C++ in the Vitis platform to meet each
firm’s specific needs.
The AAT reference design is available today at no cost for Alveo
accelerator card customers.
Xilinx App Store
Xilinx has launched an app store with ready-to-deploy
accelerated applications spanning smart world AI video analytics to
anti-money laundering and live video transcoding. Developed by
Xilinx ecosystem partners, the containerized pre-built applications
provide an easy way to evaluate, purchase and deploy accelerated
applications in minutes. Visit the Xilinx App Store to learn
more.
Xilinx Adapt: Data Center
Xilinx will showcase these and other accelerated solutions at
the Xilinx Adapt: Data Center event taking place March 24-25.
Xilinx Adapt is a virtual technology series highlighting key trends
and advancements in the data center, 5G, software & AI,
automotive and Vivado. The events provide an opportunity for
developers and ecosystem partners to connect with Xilinx experts
and industry leaders with a program of presentations, forums,
product trainings and labs.
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About Xilinx
Xilinx, Inc. develops highly flexible and adaptive processing
platforms that enable rapid innovation across a variety of
technologies - from the cloud, to the edge, to the endpoint. Xilinx
is the inventor of the FPGA and Adaptive SoCs (including our
Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platform, or ACAP), designed to
deliver the most dynamic computing technology in the industry. We
collaborate with our customers to create scalable, differentiated
and intelligent solutions that enables the adaptable, intelligent
and connected world of the future. For more information, visit
xilinx.com.
Source: Xilinx Newsroom
Category: Product Announcements
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