Tag: Stratix

• Can FPGAs outperform GPUs for some AI workloads? Answer: Yes For many AI workloads, it can be challenging to achieve the full compute capacity reported by GPU vendors. Even for highly parallel computation such as general matrix multiplication (GEMM), GPUs can only achieve high utilization at certain large matrix sizes. FPGAs offer a different approach to AI-optimized hardware. Unlike GPUs, FPGAs offer unique fine-grained spatial reconfigurability where the output of...
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• Free Webinar: Using Intel® oneAPI™ to Achieve High-Performance Compute Acceleration with FPGAs Interested in learning how to use the Intel® oneAPI™ open, unified programming model to accelerate data-centric workloads using FPGAs? Then sign up for the free Webinar titled “Using Intel oneAPI to Achieve High-Performance Compute Acceleration with FPGAs.” It’s being presented on March 23 and March 25 by Intel and Bittware. The Webinar will zero in a real-world, 2D FFT workload...
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• Biz Tech thought leader Dez Blanchfield’s recent podcast discusses infrastructure and application acceleration using FPGAs, SmartNICs, and Intel® eASIC™ structured ASICs with Intel’s Jim Dworkin Business and digital transformation strategy thought leader Dez Blanchfield regularly posts podcasts in a series titled “Conversations with Dez” about topics of interest to the technology industry. He recently interviewed Jim Dworkin, Senior Director of the Cloud Business Unit in the Programmable Solutions Group at Intel and the two have a wide-ranging discussion that touches on data center architecture and...
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• Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition Version 20.4 Software Now Ready for Download Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition Version 20.4 Software is now available for download. In addition to functional and security updates, the new development software for Intel® FPGAs incorporates many new features including:   Partial reconfiguration and encrypted partial reconfiguration bitstream support Intel Stratix® 10 devices Enhanced handling of Intel FPGA designs with large inferred RAM requirements Platform Designer enhancements include:...
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• FPGA-based reference design from Algo-Logic and Intel cuts high-speed financial trading latency by 3.8X Algo-Logic and Intel have developed a high-speed reference framework design that offloads the network stack required for high-speed financial trading to logic instantiated in an Intel® Stratix® 10 FPGA on the Intel® FPGA Programmable Acceleration Card (Intel® FPGA PAC) D5005 platform. The reference design includes: A fast PCIe interface (the Algo-Logic Fast Data Mover) A C/C++ to FPGA business logic...
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• BittWare’s 520NX Accelerator Card harnesses AI-optimized power of the Intel® Stratix® 10 NX FPGA BittWare has just announced the 520NX AI Accelerator PCIe card based on the AI-optimized Intel® Stratix® 10 NX FPGA, which incorporates specialized AI Tensor blocks with a theoretical peak computational speed of 143 INT8 TOPS and 8 Gbytes of in-package, stacked high-bandwidth memory (HBM2). In addition to the Intel Stratix 10 NX FPGA’s internal resources, the 520NX AI Accelerator card’s...
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• Gold Release of Intel® oneAPI Toolkits arrive in December: One Programming Model for a Heterogeneous World of CPUs, GPUs, and FPGAs This week at the Supercomputing 2020 (SC20) conference, Intel announced that the gold release of the Intel® oneAPI toolkits will become available next month. The oneAPI industry initiative is creating a unified and simplified cross-architecture programming model that delivers uncompromised performance without proprietary lock-in, while allowing you to integrate legacy code. Intel oneAPI Toolkits allow you to create code for...
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• More details on the Intel® Stratix® 10 NX FPGA, the first AI-optimized Intel® FPGA, now available in a new White Paper The increasing complexity of AI models and the explosive growth of AI model size are both rapidly outpacing innovations in compute resources and memory capacity available on a single device. AI model complexity now doubles every 3.5 months or about 10X per year, driving rapidly increasing demand in AI computing capability. Memory requirements for AI models are also rising due...
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• WaveNet Neural Network runs on Intel® Stratix® 10 NX FPGA, synthesizes 256 16 kHz audio streams in real time State-of-the-art text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis systems generally employ two neural network models that run sequentially to generate audio. The first model generates acoustic features such as spectrograms from input text. The second model, a vocoder, takes intermediate features from the first model and produces speech. Tacotron 2 is often used as the first model. A new White Paper from Myrtle.ai titled...
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• The Next Platform discusses the latest Intel Networking Innovations including new Intel® SmartNICs based on Intel® FPGAs Last month, Intel introduced several FPGA-based networking innovations, including the Intel® FPGA SmartNIC C5000X platform architecture – designed to meet the needs of Cloud Service Providers. Also announced: the Inventec FPGA SmartNIC C5020X, based on the Intel FPGA SmartNIC C5000X platform, and the Silicom FPGA SmartNIC N5010, a hardware-programmable 4x100G FPGA SmartNIC that combines an Intel® Stratix® 10 DX FPGA...
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