Intel recently announced that its OEMs will launch servers equipped with Arria 10 GX FPGAs for data centers. According to reviews, the move will help the company create another breakthrough for FPGAs in the server market, and once successful, it will set aside other rivals. Overcoming obstacles. According to EEJournal, after Intel bought the Altera for several decades that dominated the server market, the outside world predicted that the former would intentionally bring about significant changes to the development of data center computing, that is, the introduction of FPGA-based accelerators into the mainstream. Intel announced that OEMs including Dell and Fujitsu will launch programmable accelerator cards (PAC) servers pre-loaded with Arria 10 GX FPGAs. Earlier Intel also said that Acceleration Stack Software Development Stream enables third parties to build maximum accelerators for Intel Xeon CPUs, and announces third-party sales acceleration for financial acceleration, data analytics, cyber security, genomics and video transcoding, and artificial intelligence (AI) applications IP ecosystem. The comments point out that the implementation of key risks such as financial risk analysis and database Look, the results are quite persuasive. Take financial risk analysis as an example. Compared to traditional Spark implementations, each symbol code acceleration is up to 8.5 times faster and the simulation time is doubled. In terms of database acceleration, Intel claims that instant data analysis speed More than 20 times faster, data storage is more than 2 times faster than storage compression is more than 3 times. In the financial risk market, performance is of utmost importance, because Terabyte (TB) grade data must be analyzed immediately, and can analyze its return more quickly Huge, because of options trading, insurance and regulatory compliance will spur the anticipatory risk analysis market to multiply in the next 5 years. Therefore, Intel financial analysis partner Levyx has launched and tested a platform using Intel products. In addition, it is expected that accelerated applications from many companies will be more Many, and let the strength of the relevant ecosystem become the key to determine the success of the new server. Comments pointed out that due to the use of low-cost Arria components, FPGA accelerator does not have a major impact on the overall cost of the server, but for the already owned The benefits of the application company will be even more pronounced. With FPGA pre-maximized applications, most vendors will be able to Significant benefits can be gained from improvements and power savings. This will also bring new developments to Intel's Programmable Solutions Group (PSG). FPGA companies have become accustomed to competing server value models. Before engineers choose to design FPGAs for systems, Will invest Fmax, LUT number, MAC size and performance, design tool execution time and a bunch of other considerations. In the past, FPGAs were dedicated components that are often used by experts, and now many companies will be able to see Arria FPGAs being purchased in large quantities. Common to the FPGA shadows. The review believes that once FPGAs are massively added to the server, it will provide a good environment for third parties to develop high-value accelerators based on Intel Acceleration Stack, and once a large number of application developers make good use of the Acceleration Stack, Intel FPGA will be enabled. Have the potential to become an x86 accelerator.
