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Field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are making their way into data centers (DC). They serve to offload and accelerate service-oriented tasks such as web-page ranking, memory caching, deep learning, network encryption, video conversion and high-frequency trading.
Data center is a facility that provides shared access to applications and data using a complex network, compute, and storage infrastructure. Industry standards exist to assist in designing, constructing, and maintaining data center facilities and infrastructures to ensure the data is both secure and highly available.
Devices called field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), whose physical attributes can be manipulated through the use of hardware description languages (HDLs), bridge the gap between programming software and programming hardware. But FPGAs have been typically thought of as devices only hardware engineers can programme.
Microsoft is using FPGAs in its data centres to run Bing search algorithms. The FPGA can change to support new algorithms as they are created. If needs change, the design can be repurposed to run simulation or modeling routines in an HPC application.
Global datacenter FPGA market accounted for $XX Billion in 2022 and is anticipated to reach $XX Billion by 2030, registering a CAGR of XX% from 2023 to 2030.
Xilinx launches a data-centre accelerator for HPC.The Xilinx Alveo U55C data-centre accelerator is smaller, has more memory, and draws less power than its predecessor, making it more attractive for high-performance computing.
Xilinx has introduced its latest data-center accelerator, the Alveo U55C, which it says is its most powerful accelerator yet thanks to a memory change.For the most part, the FPGA-powered Alveo U55C is similar to its predecessor, Alveo U280.
But the U280 has 8GB of HBM2 memory and 16GB of DDR4 DRAM, while the U55C comes with 16GB of HBM2 memory, and no DDR4. HBM2 is considerably faster and more expensive than DDR4 memory.By going to all HBM2 and removing the DDR4, Xilinx is able to increase performance and considerably reduce power and size.
The Alveo U55C card is a single-slot full height, half length (FHHL) form factor vs. the full height, full length, dual width form of the U280. It also has a much lower power draw, 150W vs. 215W.
The smaller form factor provides more compute density in the same space, suitable for creating dense Alveo accelerator-based clusters. It’s built for high-density streaming data, high I/O maths, and scale-out applications like big-data analytics and AI.
