SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 12, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced it will showcase, together with its ecosystem, compute, storage, and networking acceleration for Data Center and HPC applications at Supercomputing 2014. Through a series of demonstrations and presentations, Xilinx and its ecosystem will highlight FPGA-based solutions demonstrating new and industry-leading capabilities that can enable rapid innovation and accelerated deployment in the Data Center. To learn more, visit Xilinx at booths #3903 and 4003, November 17 – 20, 2014 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, New Orleans, Louisiana. 

Presentations/Panel Participation:

• Tuesday 11/18 at 5:30 p.m., Room 393-94-95 – Reconfigurable Supercomputing
• Tuesday, 11/18 at 10:00 a.m., Micron booth #1949 – The Benefits of Xilinx® UltraScale™ Devices for HMC

In-Booth Demonstrations by Xilinx and its Alliance Members – Booths #3903 and #4003:

• Key Value Store Application Acceleration 
  Leveraging the Alpha Data ADM-PCIE-7V3 board, this demonstration is a broadly applicable key value store workload acceleration engine (i.e. Memcached and NoSQL) that delivers significant performance/watt acceleration at substantially lower latency.
• NVMe Flash Storage Platform Featuring a Kintex-7 FPGA 
  This demonstration is an NVMe-based flash storage solution running on a Xilinx® Kintex®-7 FPGA development platform. The solution showcases a fully compliant NVMe spec 1.1 interface.
• Low Latency 25G/50G Ethernet MAC Connectivity Solution
  This demonstration utilizes two Virtex® UltraScale™ VCU107 boards communicating over four channels of 25G Ethernet through 5 meters of direct attached copper cable and two QSFP+ modules. The low latency 25GE MAC supports the 25G Ethernet Consortium specification.
• Low Latency TOE for Network Acceleration from Alliance Member Intilop
  Demonstration features Intilop’s 16 to 16,394 Simultaneous Connections TCP & UDP Offload Engine (TOE & UOE) and 10G MAC soft IP core running on the Alpha Data ADM-PCIE-7V3 card.
• Software Defined Development Environment for OpenCL
  Demonstration of Xilinx’s software defined development environment enabling the compilation of OpenCL applications into binaries ready for execution on FPGA devices using a standard programming environment.
• Software Defined Development Environment for Xilinx Virtex-7 Devices
  Demonstration of OpenCL applications featuring the Alpha-Data ADM-PCIE-7V3 board based on the All Programmable Virtex-7 FPGA for the highest performance at the lowest possible power envelope.
• Software Defined Development Environment for Kintex-7 Devices
  Demonstration featuring the Pico Computing M505-K325T acceleration board based on the All Programmable Kintex-7 FPGA, delivering unparalleled fanless performance for under 20W.

Xilinx Technology-enabled Demonstrations Throughout the SC14 Show floor:
The following Xilinx Alliance Program members will showcase a Xilinx-based technology demonstration in their SC14 booths:

• Alpha Data – Booth #3803
  Demonstration features Alpha Data’s industry-leading FPGA accelerator boards for network processing including the KU3 UltraScale card with dual 40GbE / PCIe Gen3 x16, and the 7V3 Virtex-7 card with dual 10GbE / PCIe Gen3 x8. 
• Auviz Systems – Alpha Data Booth #3803 
  Demonstrating functions from Auviz Systems’ computer vision and image processing middleware IP, AuvizCV, created using Xilinx’s software defined development environment for OpenCL.
• Convey Computer – Emerging Technology Booth ET11 
  Demonstrating high level programming for Convey’s Virtex-7 FPGA-based Wolverine line of high performance coprocessors, with the Convey Personality Development Toolset and the Xilinx software defined development environment for OpenCL.
• The Dini Group – Booth #528
  Showcasing scalable Kintex-7 and Virtex-7 FPGA-based solutions for high performance computing featuring the DNK7_F5PCIe board.
• Invea-Tech – Booth #3923 
  Demonstrating the world’s first HPC 100GE transmit/receive data stream on xR4 PCI-e cards based on Virtex-7 HT FPGAs with 28Gbps transceivers using a commodity server.
• Micron – Booth #1949 
  Hosting HMC interoperability demos featuring Open-Silicon and Pico Computing IP on Virtex UltraScale devices.
• Nallatech – Booth #1332 
  Showcasing Nallatech’s PCI-287n with dual Kintex-7 FPGAs for high performance computing and network processing applications.
• Pico Computing – Booth # 3233 
  Demonstrations include Xilinx’s software defined development environment for OpenCL running in a Kontron 2U with Pico Computing’s Kintex-7-powered acceleration module; Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC) IP running on Xilinx’s Virtex UltraScale VCU109 device; and Pico Computing’s new EX-850 Virtex UltraScale board integrating eight HMCs devices.

About Xilinx

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