
Xilinx Revolutionizes the Modern Data Center with Software-Defined, Hardware Accelerated Alveo SmartNICs Feb 23, 2021
News Summary:
Fully composable and easy to program 100Gb/s SmartNIC delivers line rate network function offloads
Introduces smart world AI video analytics solutions that provide deterministic low latency performance for the most demanding AI video applications
New accelerated algorithmic trading framework enables software developers to create trading solutions that break the microsecond latency barrier
Launches Xilinx App Store making it easier than ever to evaluate, purchase and deploy accelerated applications on Alveo cards, on-prem or cloud instances
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Addressing 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, smart world AI video analytics applications, an accelerated algorithmic trading reference design for sub-microsecond trading, and the Xilinx App Store.
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Xilinx Alveo SN1000 SmartNIC (Photo: Business Wire)
Today's 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 accelerator cards.
Data centers are transforming to increase networking bandwidth and optimize for workloads like artificial intelligence and real-time analytics, said Salil Raje, executive vice president and general manager, Data Center Group at Xilinx. These 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's most demanding applications as well as the flexibility to quickly take on new workloads and protocols, and accelerate them at line rate.
New Alveo SN1000 SmartNICs
The Xilinx Alveo SN1000 is the industry's 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.
Using the Vitis 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.
SN1000 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 over TCP, Ceph, and compression and crypto services.
Industry Support
VMware 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. -- Lee Caswell, vice president of marketing, VMware Cloud Platform Business Unit
Today's 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. -- Ben Li, general manager of Network Business Unit at Inspur
Based on the Xilinx 16nm UltraScale architecture, the SN1000 family of SmartNICs are powered by the low-latency Xilinx XCU26 FPGA and a 16-core Arm processor. SN1000 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.
The Alveo SN1022 SmartNIC will be generally available in March 2021.
Building the Smart World with New AI Video Analytics Platform
Xilinx 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 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's lowest TCO for demanding AI video analytics applications.
Xilinx smart world ecosystem solutions available today, include:
Aupera is offering turnkey smart city and smart retail solutions that combine Aupera's intelligent, video processing with Alveo accelerators.
Mipsology is providing a toolset for easy migration of existing AI applications from GPU-based ar
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