Squirrels Research Labs Reveals Intel® FPGAs in Power-Efficient Next Generation Ethereum Mining Accelerators
February 19 2020 - 01:48PM
Squirrels Research Labs (SQRL), a world-leader in blockchain
technology, today announced a flagship product in the successful
JungleCat line of high-performance blockchain accelerators. With
the introduction of two new modules starting at $1349, including
16GB of HBM2 in the highest capacity Intel® Stratix® 10 MX FPGAs,
SQRL extends its market leadership in FPGA cryptocurrency mining
solutions and customer value. “We are incredibly excited to launch
this product based around Intel’s FPGA technology,” SQRL president
David Stanfill said. “The added capacity of 16GB HBM2 memory
coupled with our industry leading 300W-per-chip design gives our
customers unique and unparalleled access to mine even more
cryptocurrencies.” The new JungleCat modules can be used to mine
top-tier cryptocurrencies using algorithms like Ethash (Ethereum),
Equihash, and Cuckoo Cycle with an outstanding return, in part due
to industry leading power efficiency. They also offer tremendous
advantages in other data center compute workloads, including video
processing, database acceleration and machine learning. Intel
Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) is an industry pioneer in silicon across
multiple verticals, and their collaboration as a supplier puts
decades of experience and expertise behind the SQRL team.
“We have been working closely with Intel to optimize our product
offerings for our customers’ needs,” Stanfill said. “We’re
incredibly proud of the results so far, and we’re excited for the
future.”
High capacity 16GB HBM allows the new JungleCat products to keep
critical data closer to computational resources, reducing power and
ultimately providing superior performance, even for algorithms that
utilize significantly smaller amounts of memory. “This is game
changing,” Stanfill continued. “We’ve built products around HBM2
before, but with Intel’s help and the unique advantage of their
Hyperflex™ architecture in the Stratix 10 MX products, we were
able to take the lessons learned about the unique bottlenecks in
our workloads, and bypass them with this advanced generation of
product.” More details about the new products are forthcoming. SQRL
will begin accepting orders in March, with shipments expected the
same month. Units will ship with support for multiple algorithms,
including those already supported by SQRL’s previous BCU-1525 and
ForestKitten products. The company is expecting continued
high-demand for these products and recommends interested parties
contact sales@squirrelsresearch.com to begin reserving
inventory.
About Squirrels Research Labs Squirrels
Research Labs, or SQRL, specializes in the development of
high-performance computing and blockchain hardware technology. More
about Squirrels Research Labs can be found at
http://squirrelsresearch.com.
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