460Gbytes per second, 8Gbyte HBM2 provided
Dell EMC First to Certify Alveo U200 Xilinx, Inc. today announced that it is expanding its recently announced Alveo data center accelerator card portfolio with the addition of the latest Alveo U280 product. The Alveo U280 card supports advanced high-performance server interconnects including HBM2.
Xilinx also announced that Dell EMC is the first server vendor to qualify its Alveo U200 accelerator card for acceleration of key HPC and other workloads on select Dell EMC PowerEdge servers. The Alveo portfolio is designed to enhance the performance of industry-standard servers in cloud and on-premise data centers.
“We are excited to launch the Alveo U280, which benefits memory-intensive applications, and to build this go-to-market partnership with Dell EMC,” said Manish Muthal, vice president, data center, Xilinx. “We will provide customers with new products that meet and exceed their critical data center acceleration requirements across a wide range of key applications.”
Xilinx Alveo U280 The new Alveo U280 accelerator card provides 8Gbytes of HBM2 at 460Gbytes per second to provide high-performance, adaptable acceleration for memory-intensive and compute-intensive applications including database, analytics and machine learning inference.
It also includes CCIX-enabled PCI Express 4.0 to leverage the latest server interconnect infrastructure for high-bandwidth, low-latency, cache coherent shared memory access with new CCIX host processors. All of these capabilities are designed to support today's demanding HPC environments, as well as other general-purpose data center workloads such as financial trading and risk modeling, and database acceleration.
The U280 is scheduled to begin sampling in Q1 2019.
Dell EMC PowerEdge, Alveo U200 Certification Dell EMC PowerEdge servers are the first to qualify the Alveo U200 accelerator, with availability starting in December. Alveo accelerator cards are available in PowerEdge servers including the R740, R740xd, R7425, R840, and R940xa.
“With the Alveo U200 as a validated option for Dell EMC Power servers, we are able to provide customers with an FPGA-based acceleration option from Xilinx to meet the rapidly increasing compute requirements of modern data centers,” said Ravi Pendekanti, senior vice president, product management and marketing, Dell EMC Server & Infrastructure Systems. “Our collaboration with Xilinx helps us develop best-in-class acceleration solutions that benefit customers across a wide range of applications, from video content streaming to risk management and financial services.”
