Compute
The Year Ahead In Datacenter Compute
For more than a decade, the pace of the server market was set by the rollout of Intel’s Xeon processors each year. …
Xilinx
HPC
Xilinx Tunes Up FPGAs For HPC, Graph Analytics
High performance computing hardware is really a software game, and the software we are referring to is at a very low level where deep expertise in libraries and solvers can make the difference between a capable device performing up to its specifications and, well, not so much. …
Store
The Accelerated Path To Petabyte-Scale Graph Databases
Database acceleration using specialized co-processors is nothing new. Just to give a few examples, data warehouses running on the Netezza platform, owned by IBM for more than a decade now, uses a custom and parallelized PostgreSQL database matched to FPGA acceleration for database and storage routines. …
Compute
How The FPGA Can Take On CPU And NPU Engines And Win
We made a joke – sort of – many years ago when we started this publication that the future compute engines would look more like a GPU card than they did a server as we knew it back then. …
Compute
Xilinx Keeps Pushing Programmable Logic As It Awaits AMD Takeover
The top brass at FPGA maker Xilinx are not hosting calls with Wall Street because of the pending $35 billion acquisition of the company by AMD, so we are left to get our own insight out of the financial report and accompanying statement that Xilinx has released for its latest quarterly results. …
Compute
Giving SmartNICs Bigger FPGA And CPU Brains
The lines between a server, a SmartNIC, and a Data Processing Unit, or DPU, are getting fuzzier, and the good news is that definitions do not matter nearly as much as use cases. …
Compute
AMD Girds For Compute War With Xilinx Deal
The rumors were right, and AMD president and chief executive officer Lisa Su is indeed printing out a tower of stock to acquire FPGA maker Xilinx for what amounts to about $35 billion and, as it turns out, she is relinquishing her position as president to Victor Peng, chief executive at Xilinx, to close the deal. …
Compute
Pondering That Rumored $30 Billion AMD Acquisition Of Xilinx
You can have a strategy, but you can’t buy one.
Nothing illustrates this principle more than the networking buying binges that both Intel and AMD went on nearly a decade ago, which did not really amount to much in the end but which made some sort of sense in the middle of it all happening. …
Compute
Get The Picture With Video Acceleration In The Datacenter
With all of us now learning to live, work, and learn from home, it is becoming apparent how critical video streaming is as a tool to support our new normal. …
Compute
Tuning The FPGA For Clouds And Comms
It has been a long time since plain vanilla programmable logic circuits known as field programmable gate arrays have been available in a raw form. …