Handle one million IPSec SAs at 100 Gbps using Arrive Technologies’ IPSec core and the Intel® FPGA PAC N3000 card - Arrive Technologies’ FPGA-accelerated IP security (IPSec) IP core, optimized for the Intel® FPGA Programmable Acceleration Card (PAC) N3000, delivers wire-speed cryptographic processing (including AES-GCM (128/192/256), AES-CBC (128/192/256), SHA-1/2, and others) at Ethernet rates as fast as 100 Gbps while handling as many as one million Security Associations (SAs). With this sort of performance, Arrive’s IPSec...
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Network service providers and operators can serve many more customers with better throughput, lower TCO using Benu Networks’ vBNG with FPGA-based VNF acceleration - Network service providers and network operators perpetually face the challenge of reducing the costs associated with service delivery while also finding cost-effective ways to expand into new markets and serve an ever-growing number of subscribers while tailoring these services on a per-subscriber basis. Meeting these challenges requires a different approach and Benu Networks’ different approach...
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Free Intel and Napatech Webinar: Can Your Network Respond Quickly Enough to Defend Against Cyber Attacks? - Corporate data breaches cost many millions of dollars and they’re becoming more frequent as faster line rates make it easier for cybercriminals and other malicious actors to penetrate corporate and government networks with the intent of causing harm. Consequently, commercial firms, governments, and other entities are beefing up their network security. Network security hardware and...
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InAccel’s Accelerated ML suite boosts Spark ML performance by as much as 7x on FPGA-based Alibaba Cloud f1 instances - InAccel has developed an integrated machine-learning (ML) set of tools called the Accelerated ML suite that delivers as much as a 7x performance increase for applications such as logistic regression, K-means clustering, and gradient-boosted trees (GBTs) using XGBoost by leveraging FPGA acceleration available through the Alibaba Cloud’s f1 instance, which is based on Intel® Xeon®...
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FPGA accelerates face recognition while protecting inference model through data encryption - The video below, made at the recent Embedded Vision Summit, demonstrates an Intel® FPGA performing face recognition through a machine language (ML) inference model. A CPU downloads the model to the FPGA in encrypted form and is stored that way in the FPGA’s external SDRAM. Decryption only occurs when the FPGA reads the model...
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Meet 5G High Density I/O Goals through Software Optimization and Hardware Acceleration - Intel, Affirmed Networks, and Dell EMC have developed a proof of concept for high-performance Next-Generation Core Networks (NGCN). Together, the three companies have written and published a White Paper that presents a state-of-the-art solution for a commercial, standalone 5G core network (5GCN) that achieves 100 Gbps/CPU socket using a 100 GbE NIC plugged into...
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WWT’s Advanced Technology Center provides access to seven diverse high-performance, FPGA-accelerated application demos - World Wide Technology (WWT) has developed an FPGA “Center of Excellence” within its immense Advanced Technology Center (ATC) to provide its customers with a one-stop resource for exploring the performance benefits of FPGA acceleration based on the Intel® Acceleration Stack for Intel Xeon® CPU with FPGAs. The ATC creates a collaborative ecosystem that enables customers...
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Corerain’s CAISA stream engine transforms FPGA into Deep Learning Neural Network without HDL coding - With their thousands of on-chip multipliers, FPGAs provide ample computational resources needed to implement convolutional neural networks (CNNs), recurrent neural networks (RNNs), and other deep neural networks (DNNs) based on Deep Learning (DL) models. However, fully utilizing the capabilities of these resources has required expertise in hardware description language (HDL) programming using either Verilog...
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rENIAC’s FPGA-based Distributed Data Engine boosts Cassandra database performance as much as 10X when deployed as data proxy. - rENIAC’s Distributed Data Engine accelerates the Apache Cassandra NoSQL database by both increasing throughput and reducing latency. Facebook originally developed the Apache Cassandra distributed NoSQL database to power its inbox search feature and released it to the open-source community more than a decade ago, where it has continued to flourish. The distributed Cassandra database application...
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How to power nearly everything – Processors, FPGAs, ASICs – the easy way with high-frequency PowerSOC converters - The days of powering every chip on a board with a single 5 V or 3.3 V supply are long gone. Most complex ICs including processors, FPGAs, and ASICs require multiple supply voltages. Efficiently meeting the power needs of these devices becomes a complicated design challenge, but point-of-load (POL) converters can simplify these challenges....
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Intel and Partners Demo End-to-End 5G Picocell Solution at MWC Shanghai - Picocells are critical network elements that will be required for low-cost densification of 5G networks. Densification will create wireless networks that are more agile, more elastic, and more intelligent while delivering better network performance, at lower cost, and with better energy efficiency. Last month at MWC Shanghai, Intel and some of its 5G partners...
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How to restore an original, 50-year-old Apollo Guidance Computer with a little assist from an FPGA - This coming Saturday, July 20, marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing, the first time that a human being stepped upon a celestial body other than the Earth. Many, many commemorative activities are planned and many more have already taken place to celebrate this anniversary, but perhaps one of the coolest,...
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Low-cost Trenz Electronic C10LP-RefKit dev board based on Intel Cyclone® 10 FPGA available through Arrow - Arrow Electronics is now carrying the low-cost Trenz Electronic C10LP-RefKit dev board, which is based on a low-power Intel® Cyclone® 10 FPGA with 55k logic elements. The FPGA and on-board peripherals are powered by a pair of high-efficiency Intel® Enpirion® EN6347QI PowerSOC stepdown, dc-dc converter modules. The C10LP-RefKit dev board also incorporates 8 Mbytes...
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