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- \nFully composable and easy to program 100Gb\/s SmartNIC delivers line rate network function offloads\n<\/li>\n
- \nIntroduces smart world AI video analytics solutions that provide deterministic low latency performance for the most demanding AI video applications\n<\/li>\n
- \nNew accelerated algorithmic trading framework enables software developers to create trading solutions that break the microsecond latency barrier\n<\/li>\n
- \nLaunches Xilinx App Store making it easier than ever to evaluate, purchase and deploy accelerated applications on Alveo\u2122 cards, on-prem or cloud instances\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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\nAddressing 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<\/a>, smart world<\/a> AI video analytics applications, an accelerated algorithmic trading<\/a> reference design for sub-microsecond trading, and the Xilinx App Store<\/a>.\n<\/p>\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20210223005386\/en\/<\/a><\/p>\n
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\nToday\u2019s 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<\/a> accelerator cards.\n<\/p>\n
\n\u201cData centers are transforming to increase networking bandwidth and optimize for workloads like artificial intelligence and real-time analytics,\u201d said Salil Raje, executive vice president and general manager, Data Center Group at Xilinx. \u201cThese 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\u2019s most demanding applications as well as the flexibility to quickly take on new workloads and protocols, and accelerate them at line rate.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
New Alveo SN1000 SmartNICs<\/b><\/p>\n
\nThe Xilinx\u00ae<\/sup> Alveo\u2122 SN1000<\/a> is the industry\u2019s 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.\n<\/p>\n
\nUsing the Vitis\u2122<\/a> 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.\n<\/p>\n
\nSN1000 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\u2122 over TCP, Ceph, and compression and crypto services.\n<\/p>\n
Industry Support<\/b><\/p>\n
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- \n\u201cVMware 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.\u201d — Lee Caswell, vice president of marketing, VMware Cloud Platform Business Unit\n<\/li>\n
- \n\u201cToday\u2019s 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.\u201d — Ben Li, general manager of Network Business Unit at Inspur\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\nBased on the Xilinx 16nm UltraScale+\u2122 architecture, the SN1000 family of SmartNICs are powered by the low-latency Xilinx XCU26 FPGA and a 16-core Arm\u00ae<\/sup> processor. \u200bSN1000 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.\n<\/p>\n
\nThe Alveo SN1022 SmartNIC will be generally available in March 2021.\n<\/p>\n
Building the Smart World with New AI Video Analytics Platform <\/b><\/p>\n
\nXilinx 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<\/a> 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\u2019s lowest TCO for demanding AI video analytics applications.\n<\/p>\n
\nXilinx smart world ecosystem solutions available today, include:\n<\/p>\n
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- \nAupera is offering turnkey smart city and smart retail solutions that combine Aupera\u2019s intelligent, video processing with Alveo accelerators.\n<\/li>\n
- \nMipsology 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.\n<\/li>\n
- \nDeepAI is delivering AI training at the edge on Alveo accelerators with up to a 10x performance per cost advantage compared to GPU-based solutions.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Low-Latency Electronic Trading for Everyone<\/b><\/p>\n
\nAchieving 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<\/a> (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.\n<\/p>\n
\nAAT, 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\u2019s specific needs.\n<\/p>\n
\nThe AAT reference design is available today at no cost for Alveo accelerator card customers.\n<\/p>\n
Xilinx App Store<\/b><\/p>\n
\nXilinx 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<\/a> to learn more.\n<\/p>\n
Xilinx Adapt: Data Center <\/b><\/p>\n
\nXilinx will showcase these and other accelerated solutions at the Xilinx Adapt: Data Center event taking place March 24-25. Xilinx Adapt<\/a> 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.\n<\/p>\n
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About Xilinx<\/b><\/p>\n
\nXilinx, 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.\n<\/p>\n
\nSource: Xilinx Newsroom\n<\/p>\n
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