CONCORD, N.H., Nov. 17, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- BittWare, a
Molex company, today unveiled the IA-840F, the company's first
Intel® Agilex™-based FPGA card designed to deliver significant
performance-per-watt improvements for next-generation data center,
networking and edge compute workloads. Agilex FPGAs deliver up to
40% higher performance or up to 40% lower power, depending on
application requirements. BittWare maximized I/O features using the
Agilex chip's unique tiling architecture with dual QSFP-DDs (4×
100G), PCIe Gen4 x16, and three MCIO expansion ports for diverse
applications. BittWare also announced support for Intel oneAPI™,
which enables an abstracted development flow for dramatically
simplified code re-use across multiple architectures.
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"Modern data center workloads are incredibly diverse, requiring
customers to implement a mix of scalar, vector, matrix and spatial
architectures," said Craig Petrie,
vice president of marketing for BittWare. "The IA-840F ensures that
customers can quickly and easily exploit the advanced features of
the Intel Agilex FPGA. For those customers who prefer to develop
FPGA applications at an abstracted level, we are including support
for oneAPI. This new unified software programming environment
allows customers to program the Agilex FPGA from a single code base
with native high-level language performance across
architectures."
The new IA-84F offers enterprise-class features and
capabilities, including:
- Support for Intel oneAPI unified software programming
environment
- HDL developer toolkit: API, PCIe drivers, application example
designs and diagnostic self-test
- Sophisticated Board Management Controller (BMC)
- Choice of thermal cooling options: Passive, active or
liquid
- Multiple expansion port for additional PCIe, storage or network
I/O
To streamline cross-architecture development, oneAPI includes a
direct programming language, Data Parallel C++, and a set of
libraries for API-based programming. Data Parallel C++ is based on
C++ and incorporates SYCL from the Khronos Group. This dramatically
simplifies code re-use across multiple architectures while
facilitating custom tuning for accelerators.
"Intel Agilex FPGAs and cross platform tools including the
oneAPI toolkit are leading the way to enable easier access to these
newest FPGAs and their tremendous capabilities - including eASIC
integration, HBM integration, BFLOAT16, optimized tensor compute
blocks, Compute Express Link (CXL), and 112 Gbps transceiver data
rates for high speed 1Ghz compute and 400Gbps+ connectivity
solutions," said Patrick Dorsey, VP
Product, Programmable Solutions Group at Intel. "The highly
customizable and heterogenous Agilex platform and oneAPI tools
enable products like the new IA-840F accelerator card from BittWare
to drive innovation from the edge to the cloud."
First IA-840F card shipments are scheduled to begin Q2 2021.
Customers can purchase the new card as a pre-integrated DELL or HPE
server from the BittWare TeraBox range with a comprehensive
three-year warranty. Each TeraBox server is delivered with
pre-installed FPGA card, operating system, driver and tools. Please
visit www.BittWare.com for product portfolio details.
About BittWare
BittWare, a Molex company, designs and manufactures
enterprise-class FPGA hardware that enables customers to
deploy solutions quickly and with low risk. BittWare, with 30 years
of experience developing FPGA accelerators, is the only FPGA
vendor-agnostic supplier of critical mass able to address
enterprise-class qualification and lifecycle requirements for
customers deploying solutions in volume.
About Molex
Molex makes a connected world possible by enabling technology
that transforms the future and improves lives. With a presence in
more than 40 countries, Molex offers a full range of connectivity
products, services and solutions for markets that include data
communications, medical, industrial, automotive and consumer
electronics. For more information, visit www.molex.com.
About Intel:
Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) is a world leader in computing
innovation. The company designs and builds the essential
technologies that serve as the foundation for the world's computing
devices. As a leader in corporate responsibility and
sustainability, Intel also manufactures the world's first
commercially available "conflict-free" microprocessors.
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