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IBM Impact 2014 Conference: Xilinx to Highlight FPGA-Based Acceleration Technology

Xilinx, Inc. today announced it will demonstrate the industry's first key value store acceleration demo based on the IBM CAPI protocol at the IBM Impact 2014 Conference.

As a member of the IBM OpenPOWER Foundation, Xilinx is delivering FPGA-based acceleration technologies for use in next-generation data centers and is among the growing open development community dedicated to accelerating innovation using IBM's POWER microprocessor.

Through close collaboration with IBM and the OpenPOWER Foundation, Xilinx is continuing to develop high-performance compute solutions that integrate IBM POWER CPUs using the CAPI protocol with Xilinx® FPGAs. The IBM CAPI protocol enables coherent sharing of memory resources between the FPGA and host thereby reducing development cycles. The Xilinx demonstration is a broadly applicable CAPI-based key value store workload acceleration engine (i.e. Memcached and NoSQL) that delivers significant performance/watt acceleration at substantially lower latency and compliments the OpenCL™ design environment for Xilinx devices. A demonstration of this solution is available in the OpenPOWER booth at the IBM Impact 2014 Conference, April 27-May 1.

"The development model of the OpenPOWER Foundation is one that elicits collaboration and represents a new way in exploiting and innovating around processor technology," says Brad McCredie, OpenPOWER Foundation president and IBM Vice President and Fellow. "With the Power architecture designed for Big Data and Cloud, new OpenPOWER Foundation members like Xilinx, will be able to add their own innovations on top of the technology to create new applications that capitalize on emerging workloads."

"Xilinx is proud to be part of this global consortium bringing a new wave of innovation to next-generation data centers," said Ivo Bolsens, senior vice president and chief technology officer at Xilinx. "Our collective efforts are giving developers more choices for the way data center hardware is developed and deployed. Xilinx solutions are adding to the enhanced and open set of technologies from which designers have to work with."

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