Category: Acceleration

• Terasic DE10-Agilex Accelerator PCIe board combines Intel® Agilex™ F-Series FPGA with four DDR4 SO-DIMM SDRAM sockets and two QSFP-DD connectors If you’re itching to get your hands on the innovative features built into the new family of Intel® Agilex™ FPGAs like the second-generation Intel® HyperFlex™ architecture or the improved DSP capabilities including half-precision floating point (FP16) and BFLOAT 16 computational abilities, then consider the new Terasic DE10-Agilex Accelerator board. This PCIe card combines an Intel Agilex F-Series FPGA with four...
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• Nokia AirFrame Edge Server based on 2nd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable CPUs and the Intel® FPGA PAC N3000 suits edge and far-edge cloud RAN, MEC, and 5G deployments Nokia AirFrame open edge servers feature an ultra-small footprint so they fit well in many locations including existing base station facilities and far-edge sites. These compact servers are provisioned with a real-time, OPNFV compatible, OpenStack distribution that provides both low latency and high throughput for cloud RAN and other applications. The software runs atop integrated 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable...
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• Ready to Use Intel® oneAPI Toolkits with FPGAs? Get ready with this free 6-hour course The Intel® oneAPI Toolkits allow developers to develop, optimize, and deploy algorithms that use Intel FPGAs as look-aside accelerators in computing systems. A free 6-hour class will teach you how to write and compile Data Parallel C++ (DPC++) code that targets Intel® FPGAs. You will learn and practice the Intel oneAPI development flow to: Emulate your code to ensure functionality...
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• World-Changing Technology to Enrich People’s Lives: Architecture Day 2020, the Six Key Intel Technology Pillars, and Intel® FPGAs Earlier this month during Architecture Day 2020, Intel’s Chief Architect Raja Koduri and a dozen Intel fellows and architects discussed numerous advanced technologies that the company has developed and is developing so that it can continue to deliver solutions for our customers’ greatest challenges. These many advanced technologies comprise the six key pillars of innovation that collectively embody the focus...
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• Tech for Good Magazine article describes how Project: CORaiL is helping to save coral reefs The August 2020 issue of Tech For Good, a publication dedicated highlighting how new technologies are bringing positive change to the world around us, chose Project: CORaiL as its cover story. This project – jointly launched by Accenture, the non-profit Sulubaaï Environmental Foundation, and Intel – aims at developing an innovative solution for recreating and restoring coral reefs to their...
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• ServeTheHome.com publishes in-depth, hands-on review of the Supermicro SYS-1019P-FHN2T SuperServer with an Intel® FPGA Programmable Acceleration Card N3000 ServeTheHome.com (STH), a Web site that bills itself as “the IT professional's guide to servers, storage, networking, and high-end workstation hardware,” recently published a hands-on review of  the Supermicro SuperServer SYS-1019P-FHN2T – a 1U edge server based on the Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor with an integrated Intel® FPGA Programmable Acceleration Card (Intel® FPGA PAC) N3000 –  which can be used...
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• Reinventing Storage for Social Networks with Intel® Xeon® Gold CPUs, Intel® Optane™ persistent memory, Intel® SSDs, and the Intel® PAC with Intel® Arria® 10 GX FPGA Social networking is hugely data intensive. Consequently, data storage consumes a significant part of the budget for VK, Russia’s largest social network. In 2019, VK had 97 million monthly active users.1 Every day, users view 9 billion posts and 650 million videos, and they exchange 10 billion messages.2 They tap the “like” button a billion times a day.1 Over the...
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• Free Webinar: Offload Hyperscale DDoS Attacks to SmartNICs and see a 300X performance improvement. July 30 Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are increasing in size, complexity, and severity. Service providers demand virtual security solutions that offer flexible and robust defenses against these increasingly frequent attacks. The F5 Networks BIG-IP VE for SmartNICs solution instantiated on an Intel® FPGA Programmable Acceleration Card N3000 can handle large DDoS attacks – as much as 300X larger – than...
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• EEJournal and The Linley Newsletter cover the newly announced, AI-optimized Intel® Stratix® 10 NX FPGA Last month, Intel announced the company’s first AI-optimized FPGA, the Intel® Stratix® 10 NX FPGA. (See “Intel has just announced its first AI-optimized FPGA – the Intel® Stratix® 10 NX FPGA – to address the rapid increase in AI model complexity.”) Earlier this week, The Linley Newsletter and EEJournal provided their perspectives on this announcement in articles written by Linley...
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• WWT’s Advanced Technology Center explains why Intel® FPGA PACs are often a superior choice for data center acceleration The Advanced Technology Center at World Wide Technology (WWT), a technology solution provider and Intel® Partner Program member, actively tests and demonstrates data center applications ranging from accelerated analytics to database management, cybersecurity, and even supercomputing. Earlier this month, the company published a blog about WWT’s experiences with using Intel® FPGA Programmable Acceleration Cards (Intel® FPGA PACs) to accelerate data...
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