Altera Corporation and XtremeData have announced availability of what’s said to be the the industry’s fastest FPGA/Intel Xeon processor-based front-side bus (FSB) module. Equipped with multiple Altera Stratix III FPGAs and using Intel QuickAssist Technology, the XtremeData XD2000i In-Socket Accelerator (ISA) showcases this powerful 1066 MHz coprocessing solution.
The XD2000i family offers the highest density Stratix III FPGAs in the smallest footprint available in the market. The module uses three FPGAs, one as a bridge to system resources in Intel Xeon processor-based servers, leaving the other two available to run user applications in typically found in military, financial, medical and bioscience markets.
XD2000i coprocessor modules substantially accelerate applications via parallelization and pipelining, while simultaneously reducing overall system power consumption and latency. In the Stratix III FPGA-based FSB module, a 4X acceleration is expected when running the Monte Carlo Black-Scholes algorithm in double-precision floating point when compared to RapidMind’s graphics processing unit (GPU) single-precision results published earlier this year for one million paths per option. The XD2000i module also enjoys power, space and memory error correction coding (ECC) advantages over current GPUs: power is sub-60W and the module can be packed densely into a blade form factor. This FPGA coprocessing solution opens up a number of new opportunities in markets where Intel-based servers are presently being used.
XtremeData www.xtremedatainc.com
Altera www.altera.com
