SAN JOSE, Calif., April 6, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Xilinx, Inc.
(NASDAQ: XLNX) and IBM (NYSE: IBM), today announced they will be
enabling FPGA-based acceleration within the SuperVessel OpenPOWER
development cloud. Development of performance demanding
applications including big data analytics and machine learning is
enabled by the Xilinx SDAccel™ Development Environment, hosted in
SuperVessel. SDAccel allows application developers to describe
their algorithms in OpenCL™, C, and C++ and compile directly
to Xilinx FPGA-based acceleration boards. The hosted environment
will make FPGA-based application development faster and more
accessible to a broad global community of developers.
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SuperVessel is a first-of-its-kind open access cloud service
that acts as a virtual R&D engine for application developers,
system designers, and academic researchers to create, test and
pilot solutions for emerging applications including deep analytics,
machine learning and the Internet of Things. The Xilinx SDAccel
Development Environment is a complete software-defined Integrated
Development Environment (IDE) that enables developers to compile,
profile, debug and deploy FPGA-based acceleration. The combination
of the SuperVessel, IBM POWER architecture, SDAccel Development
Environment, and Xilinx FPGA accelerator boards provides
application developers with a high throughput, high availability
cloud based platform to develop and execute compute intensive
applications.
"SDAccel in the SuperVessel cloud is an important vehicle
enabling developers to easily develop and accelerate applications
using FPGAs," said Sumit Gupta, vice
president, High Performance Computing & Data Analytics at
IBM.
"Availability of SDAccel in SuperVessel is another milestone
reached in the development of application acceleration on the IBM
POWER architecture and will provide a compelling solution for those
seeking to accelerate emerging data center applications," said
Andy Walsh, senior director of data
center business at Xilinx. "It has already shown great promise to
accelerate workloads in the data center."
For more information on how to start innovating using the Xilinx
SDAccel Development Environment on SuperVessel, please visit
http://www.xilinx.com/supervessel.
To learn more about IBM, visit www.ibm.com
To learn more about Xilinx, visit www.xilinx.com
To learn more about the OpenPOWER Foundation, visit
www.openpowerfoundation.org
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