Category: PAC

• SmartNICs based on Intel® FPGAs Boost Converged Broadband Network Performance To meet consumer demands, telco providers that offer both wireless and wireline access to customers rely on dual, complex fixed and mobile infrastructures that must constantly be upgraded and maintained at great cost. Consequently, telco Internet providers continuously explore new ways to reduce costs and create new revenue streams. Many operators, for example, are eyeing 5G fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) to...
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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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• Financial Times article discusses Sulubaaï Environmental Foundation’s efforts to save coral reefs using smart underwater cameras and AI Last week, the Financial Times published an article by Adam Green titled “Tech knowhow gives new lease of life to marine habitats.” The article discusses various efforts underway to combat the demise of sensitive marine ecosystems, especially coral reefs, and the first project discussed is the Sulubaaï Environmental Foundation’s efforts to regrow and rebuild Pangatalan Island’s marine protected area in...
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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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• 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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• F5 Networks BIG-IP VE for SmartNICs uses Intel® FPGA Programmable Acceleration Card N3000 to efficiently block incoming DDoS attacks in cloud environments while lowering TCO Tom Atkins, a Product Marketing Manager at F5 Networks, has just published a blog that describes the company’s fully integrated BIG-IP Virtual Edition (VE) solution, which efficiently blocks incoming Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks in cloud environments using hardware acceleration to realize significant performance and total cost of ownership (TCO) gains. The solution consists of the F5 Networks BIG-IP...
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• rENIAC Data Engine and Intel® Programmable Acceleration Card boost Cassandra database performance in VMware vSphere virtual environment Apache Cassandra – the free and open-source, distributed, wide column store, NoSQL database management system (DBMS) designed to handle large amounts of data across many commodity servers – provides high availability with no single failure point. This DBMS offers robust support for clusters spanning multiple datacenters, with asynchronous master-less replication allowing low-latency operations for all clients. FPGAs, which have been...
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• Flumaion accelerates quantitative financial calculations for high-frequency trading with Intel® PAC with Intel® Arria® 10 GX FPGA and InAccel Orchestrator Financial workloads must pore through and process huge data sets. For high-frequency trading and risk management applications, the software demands are both time- and resource-intensive. The computing hardware must keep pace with these demands and must continuously shift industry parameters because financial markets can change direction in an instant. Failure to track a market closely results in expensive trading losses....
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• Accenture, the Sulubaaï Environmental Foundation, and Intel partner to create the CORaiL underwater vision system to help restore fragile coral reef ecosystems Accenture has partnered with the Sulubaaï Environmental Foundation and Intel to develop an innovative solution for recreating and restoring coral reefs to their former health by installing special equipment including underwater cameras in the Pangatalan Island marine protected area in the Philippines. This system supports the Sulubaaï Environmental Foundation’s efforts to regrow and rebuild the island’s coral reef ecosystem. Coral...
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