Alibaba Cloud Adopts Xilinx for FPGA Acceleration in Public Cloud
Published2017.10.16 11:35Xilinx announced at a Computing Conference held in China that Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing division of the Alibaba Group, has adopted Xilinx for next-generation FPGA acceleration in public cloud.
Alibaba Cloud, China's largest cloud service provider, delivers high-performance and flexible computing power to over 2 million customers. The new "F2" instance based on Xilinx FPGA provides Alibaba Cloud customers with access to acceleration for data analytics, genomics, video processing, and machine learning workloads.
With exponentially growing computing requirements and limitations in CPU technology, cloud service providers are increasingly focusing on accelerated computing architectures. FPGA accelerators complement CPU-based architectures and provide performance and power efficiency benefits alongside server CPUs. Alibaba Cloud recently announced that the F2 instance delivers processing efficiency over 30 times higher compared to CPU-only configurations, thereby enabling cost-effective cloud solutions.
Steve Glaser, Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Marketing at Xilinx, stated, "Xilinx FPGAs deliver the performance, flexibility, and applications required for today's constantly evolving cloud workloads," and added, "The F2 instance provides millions of Alibaba Cloud customers with the opportunity to develop and deploy hardware-accelerated data center applications."
Jin Li, Vice President of Alibaba Cloud, said, "FPGA is a general-purpose parallel accelerator that meets the evolving computing demands of data center workloads. Alibaba Cloud looks forward to collaborating with Xilinx to advance heterogeneous computing."
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