Stefan Mileschin

Xilinx solution to reduce cloud latency by 80 percent

The datacenter is exploding, and the number of global data center traffic will triple between 2016 and 2021. Datacenter to outside traffic doubled from two Exabytes in 2016 to four Exabytes in 2019, and by 2021 it is expected to grow to six Exabytes. Interestingly enough traffic within data centers is exploding, as it grew from five Exabytes in 2016 to 10 Exabytes in 2019, and by 2021 the expectations are that it will grow to 15 Exabytes.

Xilinx has acquired a company called SolarFlare, a specialist in SmartNIC, and aims to relieve some of the significant compute resources necessary for networking. More than 80 percent of current cloud infrastructure doesn’t have SmartNIC access today. The Xilinx Alveo U25 SmartNIC platform is designed to deliver a true convergence of network, storage, and compute acceleration functions on a single device.

The Alveo U25 SmartNIC is designed to bring greater efficiency and lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) benefits of SmartNICs to cloud service providers, telcos, carriers, and private cloud data center operators struggling with increasing networking demands and rising costs.

The U25 combines a highly optimized SmartNIC platform with a powerful and flexible FPGA-based engine that supports full programmability and turnkey accelerated applications. The U25 delivers a comprehensive SmartNIC platform to address the industry’s most challenging demands and workloads such as SDN, virtual switching, NFV, NVMe-oF, electronic trading, AI inference, video transcoding, and data analytics.

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