Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX), a global leader in adaptive and intelligent computing, has just spent an exciting few weeks, hosting a developer's event XDF in Silicon Valley and Beijing (Xilinx) Developer Conference) and released Versal and Alveo product lines to accelerate artificial intelligence and data center applications. Today, this gratifying momentum adds new color: Samsung Electronics announced on the Samsung Tech Day last week that SSD-SmartSSD based on Xilinx FPGA technology has been implemented by bringing data closer to the computing unit. Higher performance, beyond the limits of the CPU.
Samsung's SmartSSD based on Xilinx FPGAs helps drive future innovations in next-generation data centers like high-performance computing, artificial intelligence and emerging applications, driving intelligence to data storage locations to increase speed and efficiency and reduce operations cost.
For example, you are looking for a picture of a cat. Usually, the system must transfer data through the server CPU, then to the memory, and then back to the CPU before it is transmitted to the user. And letting the memory itself search for "cats" directly can not only greatly improve performance, but also reduce power consumption. This is the strength of SmartSSD.
Current Xilinx FPGA-based acceleration solutions are targeted at computing applications such as speech recognition, video transcoding, and genomics, and are deployed close to the server CPU. In contrast, SmartSSD focuses on accelerating storage services such as compression, redundancy and encryption, and computing functions like machine learning inference and big data analytics that can benefit significantly from acceleration closer to real-world storage components. Similar to the Xilinx accelerator deployed near the server CPU, SmartSSD provides a platform approach to the application developer ecosystem that enables them to develop and deploy acceleration solutions using the familiar SDAccel environment.
This technology highlights the close technical cooperation between Xilinx and Samsung and highlights the flexibility and flexibility that Xilinx brings to the data center.
