Stefan Mileschin

Wins against Xeon and Tesla

Xilinx has a data center first strategy that Victor Peng and his team are executing flawlessly so far, and part of that plan is to launch an adaptable compute, network and storage card and call it Alveo U50.

The card sounds like a swiss knife that solves a lot of critical data center centric problems, and on top of software versatility, it also supports adaptable hardware with FGPGA brain. Jamon Bowen, Data Center Compute and Storage Segment Marketing Director for Xilinx, spent some time to talk about the U50 and the advantages over the competitors.

The Alveo U50 is an industry-first low-profile adaptable accelerator with PCIe Gen 4 support managing to address a broad range of critical compute, network and storage workloads, all on one reconfigurable platform. U50 is still not Versal, this is still an UltraScale+ chip, but it is able to fulfill its need and win against modern Intel data center CPUs as well as Nvidia Tesla cards.

Xilinx’s secret weapon is incredibly low latency and extreme power efficiency and flexibility to deploy to either on-premise or cloud. Alveo U50 delivers between 10-20x improvements in throughput, latency, and power efficiency. For accelerated networking and storage workloads, the U50 card helps developers identify and eliminate latency and data movement bottlenecks by moving to compute closer to the data.

https://fudzilla.com/news/ai/49182-x...compute-is-out