SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 2, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Xilinx
Developer Forum (XDF) – Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) the leader
in adaptive and intelligent computing, today launched Alveo, a
portfolio of powerful accelerator cards designed to dramatically
increase performance in industry-standard servers across cloud and
on-premise data centers. With Alveo, customers can expect
breakthrough performance improvement at low latency when running
key data center applications like real-time machine learning
inference as well as video processing, genomics, and data
analytics, among others. The Alveo™ U200 and Alveo U250 are powered
by the Xilinx® UltraScale+™ FPGA and are available now for
production orders. And like all Xilinx technology, customers can
reconfigure the hardware, enabling them to optimize for shifting
workloads, new standards and updated algorithms without incurring
replacement costs.
Alveo accelerator cards deliver significant performance
advantages over a broad set of applications. For machine learning,
the Alveo U250 increases real-time inference throughput by 20X
versus high-end CPUs, and more than 4X for sub-two-millisecond
low-latency applications versus fixed-function accelerators
like high-end GPUs*. Moreover, Alveo accelerator
cards reduce latency by 3X versus GPUs, providing a significant
advantage when running real-time inference applications.** And some
applications like database search can be radically accelerated to
deliver more than 90X, versus CPUs.***
Alveo is supported by an ecosystem of partners and OEMs who have
developed and qualified key applications in AI/ML, video
transcoding, data analytics, financial risk modeling, security, and
genomics. Fourteen ecosystem partners have developed applications
for immediate deployment. They are Algo-Logic Systems Inc,
Bigstream, BlackLynx Inc., CTAccel, Falcon Computing, Maxeler
Technologies, Mipsology, NGCodec, Skreens, SumUp Analytics, Titan
IC, Vitesse Data, VYUsync and Xelera Technologies. Additionally,
top OEMs are collaborating with Xilinx to qualify multiple server
SKUs with Alveo accelerator cards including Dell EMC, Fujitsu
Limited and IBM with more to come.
"The launch of Alveo accelerator cards further advances Xilinx's
transformation into a platform company, enabling a growing
ecosystem of application partners that can now innovate faster than
ever before," said Manish Muthal, vice president, data center,
Xilinx. "We are seeing strong customer interest in Alveo
accelerators and are delighted to partner with our application
ecosystem to deliver production-deployable solutions based on Alveo
to our customers."
OEM Quotes
"FPGA-based acceleration solutions in modern data centers are
gaining popularity as accelerators that can be programmed and
reprogrammed easily as users see
fit," said Ravi Pendekanti, senior
vice president, product management and marketing, Dell EMC Servers
& Infrastructure Systems. "Our collaboration with Xilinx to
create best-in-class acceleration solutions will benefit customers
in a range of applications from video content streaming to risk
management and financial services."
"Fujitsu congratulates Xilinx on the announcement of its new
board level products and solutions. With 5G use cases for
applications such as autonomous driving, telemedicine, and virtual
reality, the range of vRAN applications based on the COTS servers
is expected to expand considerably in the future," said Mr.
Masaki Taniguchi, vice president,
deputy head of Network Products, Fujitsu Limited. "Fujitsu
Limited and Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. have been collaborating with
Xilinx to jointly validate 3X performance on critical software
functions in the 4G vRAN system. Fujitsu looks forward to creating
powerful solutions by combining its x86 servers and Xilinx
adaptable acceleration boards."
"The launch of Xilinx's standard acceleration board products is
an exciting addition to a rapidly emerging technology arena focused
on fueling performance-hungry applications," said Keith McAuliffe, Vice President and Chief
Technologist, Servers Global Business Unit, HPE. "We look forward
to collaborating with Xilinx to bring their technology to market
and enable our customers to create breakthrough business
value."
"With the IBM Power Systems AC922 server, IBM has already
demonstrated that we have the best platform for enterprise AI
training," said Steve Sibley, vice
president of IBM Cognitive Systems. "IBM sees inference as a key
component of a complete, end-to-end AI platform, and POWER9's
leadership I/O bandwidth for data movement makes it an ideal
pairing with Xilinx's new Alveo U200 accelerator card to bring
inference to the enterprise."
Xilinx® Alveo™ U200 and U250 accelerator cards are available
today starting at $8,995 (USD) and
can be purchased today. Alternatively, you can try it out first in
the Nimbix cloud.
More details on Alveo and the full spec sheets are available on
our website. The latest list of Alveo application developers is
available on the application directory. For more information on
Xilinx and its breakthrough technologies, please visit
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About Xilinx
Xilinx develops highly flexible and adaptive processing
platforms that enable rapid innovation across a variety of
technologies – from the endpoint to the edge to the cloud. Xilinx
is the inventor of the FPGA, hardware programmable SoCs and the
ACAP, designed to deliver the most dynamic processor technology in
the industry and enable the adaptable, intelligent and connected
world of the future. For more information,
visit www.xilinx.com.
Footnotes:
*20x running GoogLeNet V1, Batch=1 | Alveo U250 vs Intel Xeon
Platinum Skylake CPU (c5.18xlarge instance; 4x running GoogLeNet
V1, Batch=1 | Alveo U250 vs Nvidia V100 GPU
**3x running CNN+BLSTM speech-to-text latency | Alveo U250 or
U200 + Intel Xeon CPU E5-2686 v4 vs Nvidia P4 + Xeon CPU
E5-2690 v4
***90x running RYFT Elasticsearch | Alveo vs EC2 C4.8xlarge
instance
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