DALLAS, Nov. 13, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- SC18, Booth
#927 -- Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) the leader in adaptive and
intelligent computing, today announced that it is expanding its
recently-announced Alveo™ data center accelerator cards portfolio
with a new product, the Alveo U280. The Alveo U280 card will
offer new features including support for high-bandwidth memory
(HBM2) and leading edge, high-performance server interconnect.
Xilinx also announced that Dell EMC is the first server vendor to
qualify its Alveo U200 accelerator card, which will be available
from Dell EMC to accelerate key HPC and other workloads with select
Dell EMC PowerEdge servers. The Alveo portfolio of powerful
accelerator cards is designed to dramatically increase performance
in industry-standard servers across cloud and on-premise data
centers.
"We are pleased to welcome Dell EMC as a go-to-market partner,
and to unveil the Alveo U280, which is suited for memory-bound
applications that can benefit from industry-standard HBM2 and
outstanding throughput," said Manish Muthal, vice president, data
center, Xilinx. "The new card is a strong complement to the Alveo
portfolio which is seeing tremendous interest from customers and
partners. We are committed to providing our users with new products
that meet and exceed their critical data center acceleration needs
across a variety of key applications."
Alveo U280
The new Alveo U280 accelerator card offers
eight gigabytes of HBM2 at 460 gigabytes-per-second to provide
high-performance, adaptable acceleration for memory-bound, compute
intensive applications including database analytics and machine
learning inference. The U280 acceleration card includes PCI Express
4.0 with CCIX support to leverage the latest server interconnect
infrastructure for high-bandwidth, low latency, cache coherent
shared memory access with upcoming CCIX host processors. All of
these features are designed to support today's demanding HPC
environments, as well as other common data center workloads such as
financial trading and risk modeling, database acceleration and
more.
The Alveo U280 will start sampling in Q1 2019. For more
product information and to register for updates, customers can
visit www.xilinx.com/u280.
Dell EMC PowerEdge Alveo U200 Qualification
Dell EMC
PowerEdge servers are the first to qualify the Alveo U200
accelerator and will be available starting this December. The Alveo
accelerator card will be fully qualified and available in PowerEdge
servers including the R740, R740xd, R7425, R840 and R940xa.
"With the Alveo U200 as a qualified option for Dell EMC
PowerEdge servers, we are able to offer customers a Xilinx
FPGA-based acceleration option to meet fast-growing computational
demand in today's modern data centers," said Ravi Pendekanti, senior vice president, product
management and marketing, Dell EMC Server and Infrastructure
Systems. "Our collaboration with Xilinx helps us create
best-in-class acceleration solutions that benefit customers in a
wide range of applications from video content streaming to risk
management and financial services."
SC18 Demonstrations
Xilinx will showcase the Alveo
U280's 8x acceleration for database hash join query and a Dell EMC
PowerEdge server featuring the Alveo U200 at SC18 in booth #927.
Additional booth demonstrations include:
- IBM Power AI Vision Inference with Alveo U200
- Boxx Dense Compute Acceleration System with Alveo
- Samsung SmartSSD
- 100Gbps Compression using Eideticom NVMe-attached
Acceleration
- Computational Storage from ScaleFlux Accelerating Cloudera
Hadoop
- Seamless KVS Acceleration enabled by CCIX
Full details on Xilinx's presence at SC18, can be found
here.
Information on Alveo and the full spec sheets are available on
the Xilinx website. The latest list of Alveo application developers
is available on the application directory.
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.
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