Free, 4-hour Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ Toolkit workshops get you free access to the Intel® DevCloud to test your computer vision projects - Attend one of two free, 4-hour, online Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ Toolkit workshops and labs, and get free access to the Intel® DevCloud to test your computer vision projects. The workshops are being held on January 7 and 22. The Intel Distribution of OpenVINO Toolkit supports the development of deep-learning algorithms that help accelerate smart...
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James Reinders is writing a book about Data Parallel C++, used to program CPUs, GPUs, and FPGAs. Download the first four chapters for free, now - James Reinders is an independent consultant, prolific technical book author, and one-time Intel employee who has more than three decades worth of experience with parallel computing, HPC (high-performance computing), and AI (artificial intelligence). He’s currently writing a book about DPC++ (data parallel C++), which is based on the Khronos Group’s SYCL compiler. The book’s title...
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Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition 19.4 release now ready for download - The latest release of the Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition Design Suite, version 19.4, is now ready for download. Click here. Version 19.4 includes both functional and security updates, including: Support for the newest Intel® FPGA family, the Intel® Agilex™ FPGAs, no longer requires a separate license file. Starting with the Intel Agilex device family,...
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2nd Generation Intel® Hyperflex™ FPGA fabric in Intel® Agilex™ FPGAs boosts Fmax by as much as 40% and cuts power, also by as much as 40% - Along with the recent announcement of Intel® Agilex™ FPGAs, Intel also introduced the 2nd Generation Intel® Hyperflex™ FPGA fabric architecture. A new 27-minute video recently posted on the Intel FPGA channel on YouTube titled “Intel® Hyperflex™ Architecture Overview for Intel Agilex™ Devices” provides deeply detailed explanations of the many new features. Here are some highlights:...
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Free Webinar: Accelerate Cassandra NoSQL Database Performance using Intel® FPGA Programmable Acceleration Cards - rENIAC’s Distributed Data Engine accelerates Apache Cassandra NoSQL database performance by as much as an order of magnitude. It improves both throughput and latency for database transactions. 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...
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New White Paper describes high-performance Next-Generation Core Networks Proof of Concept with FPGA-based NFV acceleration - Intel, Affirmed Networks, and Dell EMC describe a proof of concept for high-performance Next-Generation Core Networks (NGCN) in a new White Paper titled “Enabling Communications Service Providers to Meet 5G High Density I/O Goals through Software Optimization and Hardware Acceleration.” This White Paper describes a state-of-the-art solution for a commercial, standalone 5G core network (5GCN)...
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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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Alorium conjures a world of hardware-accelerated Arduino boards using Intel® MAX® 10 FPGAs - The open-source Arduino has become one of the most widely used embedded architectures for simple projects. The original Arduino boards were based on an 8-bit AVR microcontroller, originally developed by Atmel. The Arduino integrated development environment (IDE) and simplified programming “sketches” based on C++ made embedded programming easily accessible. Recognizing that Arduino code is not...
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Free Webinar: Ready to learn more about the new, faster, lower-power, 10nm Intel® Agilex™ FPGAs? - If you’re ready to learn more about the new 10nm Intel® Agilex™ FPGAs, Intel is conducting two free Webinars about the new devices. The two Webinars, taking place on October 22 and 23 respectively, are conveniently timed for Europe and North America. These Webinars will cover identical material and will discuss: How the new...
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Need lots of memory for your FPGA application? Intel® Agilex™ FPGAs have you covered. - Intel® Agilex™ FPGAs are designed to operate as many as four separate banks of 72-bit wide, DDR4 SDRAM memory at speeds to DDR4-3200 using the FPGA’s on-chip, hard memory controllers and hard memory transceiver ports (PHYs). Each of the Intel Agilex FPGA’s I/O banks combines 96 general-purpose I/O ports and a high-efficiency, hard memory controller....
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Need PCIe Gen4 x16 version 1.0 capability with full PCI-SIG compliance in an FPGA today? Intel® Agilex™ FPGAs can deliver. - A new YouTube video on the Intel FPGA channel describes the successful testing of the PCIe Gen4 x16 I/O capabilities built into Intel® Agilex™ FPGAs. These 10nm devices, now shipping, have successfully demonstrated PCIe Gen4 x16 operation at 16 GTransfers/sec. (They’re also designed to support PCIe Gen5 x16 operation at 32 GTransfers/sec.) The PCIe Gen4...
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