Alveo News | Two server systems, two new devices: Xilinx and partners continue the legend based on Alveo
In today's era, service providers are launching an endless stream of real-time services that rely on AI and instant response capabilities. These services are very suitable for FPGA acceleration, which is one of the important driving factors for Xilinx to launch the Alveo data center accelerator card in 2018. The design of the Alveo accelerator card is committed to significantly improving the performance of industry-standard servers in the cloud and local data centers. With Alveo, users can run key data center applications such as real-time AI inference and video transcoding on a reconfigurable unified platform, and achieve breakthrough performance improvements in low-latency situations.
The 2019 Xilinx Developer Conference (XDF) has been full of good news. At the recently concluded European stop, Salil Raje, executive vice president and general manager of Xilinx Data Center Division, took the stage with three companies to release a series of the
latest solutions supported by
Xilinx Alveo
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Eric Sindelar, senior product manager at Supermicro , announced two new Alveo-verified server systems, Supermicro DP Ultra and Supermicro UP 1U. Currently, these two systems are available worldwide. Supermicro is a US company focused on developing high-performance, high-efficiency computing solutions. This time, it has joined forces with Xilinx to jointly build a powerful computing platform to solve the challenges of the most demanding computing power and the most difficult workload expansion in enterprises and data centers.
Austrian artificial intelligence company Cortical.io, which is known as one of the 100 most noteworthy artificial intelligence companies in the world, was the second to take the stage. Its CEO Francisco Webber announced the launch of a new email classification device that can perform natural language processing. Built with Supermicro servers and Alveo accelerator cards, the device can filter and classify incoming and outgoing emails in real time, while also triggering configurable actions. The device will be available in the first quarter of next year.
Image: Cortical.io messaging appliance powered by Alveo accelerators
Last up on stage was Boston CEO Manoj Nayee, who spoke about the exciting work the company is doing with Supermicro servers, Alveo accelerators, and V-Nova.
The Boston company designs and manufactures custom servers, storage solutions and related equipment. Its products include supercomputers used in large laboratories, research in industries such as genomics, self-driving cars and even visual effects for Hollywood blockbusters.
Manoj also announced its latest product at the conference - Boston Stream+, an ultra-high-density video streaming solution . Boston Stream+ supports multiple instances, such as real-time 4K P60 encoding at unprecedented bit rates. It uses V-Nova's unique video encoding technology to reduce processing time and reduce the bandwidth required for high-quality streaming and encoding. This technology has attracted strong attention in the industry since its launch, and it has become the basis for the new MPEG-LCEVC standard. The most exciting thing is that this new technology and new standard can provide all the above advantages for all codec standards (AVC/H.264, HEVC, VP9 and the future AV1).
Image: Boston Stream+ using Xilinx Alveo accelerator cards
Boston Stream+ can be used for proof-of-concept testing.
And it can be purchased immediately now.
Boston Stream+ with Xilinx Alveo Accelerator Cards
As the Alveo platform becomes more popular in the industry, Xilinx will continue to expand its application partner ecosystem to jointly build a solution stack to provide users from all walks of life with production-ready deployable solutions using Alveo.