Intel發布自主品牌Arria 10 GX FPGA加速卡

「這款基於 PCIe 的數據中心 FPGA 加速器卡支持內嵌和旁路加速，具備 FPGA 加速的強大性能和多功能性，是面向包含 FPGA 的英特爾 至強 CPU 的加速堆棧支持的多種平台之一。該加速堆棧可為應用和加速器功能開發人員提供一種通用的開發介面，包括驅動程序、應用編程介面 (API) 和 FPGA 介面管理器。搭配加速庫和開發工具，該加速堆棧可節省開發人員的時間，支持在多個英特爾 FPGA 平台中重複使用代碼。該卡具有半高外形、低功耗和被動式散熱器，可部署在各種伺服器中。這款採用英特爾 Arria 10 GX FPGA 的多功能英特爾可編程加速卡適用於許多細分領域，如大數據分析、人工智慧、基因組學、視頻轉碼、網路安全和金融交易等。」

Intel這塊Programmable Acceleration Card（PAC）卡使用了（Altera）Arria 10 GX FPGA 晶元，板載2個4GB DDR4 ECC內存條，雖然PCIe卡的金手指是x16，但電氣信號為PCIe x8 Gen3。同時FPGA還通過一個QSFP連接器提供4個10GbE網卡介面。

整塊卡的功耗為60W，針對45W的FPGA晶元採用了被動散熱方案。

下面轉載Intel網站新聞稿中的文字，供大家參考。

Intel Eases Use of FPGA Acceleration: Combines Platforms, Software Stack and Ecosystem Solutions to Maximize Performance and Lower Data Center Costs

Intel announced a comprehensive hardware and software platform solution to enable faster deployment of customized field programmable gate array (FPGA)-based acceleration of networking, storage and computing workloads.

Complex data-intensive applications in the areas of genomics, finance, industry 4.0 and other disciplines are pushing the boundaries of data center capabilities. Intel FPGA-based acceleration exploits massively parallelized hardware offloading to maximize performance and power efficiency of data centers.

The new solution abstracts the complexities of implementation to enable architects and developers to quickly develop and deploy power-efficient acceleration of a variety of applications and workloads.

This consists of three major elements:

Intel-qualified FPGA acceleration platforms that operate seamlessly with Intel Xeon CPUs

The Acceleration Stack for Intel Xeon CPU with FPGAs that provide industry standard frameworks, interfaces and optimized libraries

Growing ecosystem of market-specific solutions

As the first in a family of Intel Programmable Acceleration Cards, today Intel is unveiling the Intel Programmable Acceleration Card with the Intel Arria 10 GX FPGA enabled by the acceleration stack.

This new platform approach enables Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), such as Dell EMC, to offer Intel Xeon processor-based server acceleration solutions with their unique value add.

「Dell EMC continues to be committed to delivering technology that helps our customers transform their business and IT,」 said Brian Payne, vice president, Product Management and Marketing, Server Solutions Division, Dell EMC. 「With this collaboration, Dell EMC and Intel are combining a reliable platform with an emerging software ecosystem that provides a new technology capability for customers to unlock their business potential.」

「Intel is making it easier for server equipment makers such as Dell EMC to exploit FPGA technology for data acceleration as a ready-to-use platform,」 said Dan McNamara, corporate vice president and general manager of Intel』s Programmable Solutions Group. 「With our ecosystem partners, we are enabling the industry with point solutions with a substantial boost in performance while preserving power and cost budgets.」

The Intel Programmable Acceleration Card with Intel Arria 10 GX FPGA is sampling now and is expected to be broadly available in the first half of 2018.

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