Xilinx Introduces Software-Defined, Hardware-Accelerated Alveo SmartNICs, Revolutionizing the Modern Data Center

     In order to meet the development needs of modern data centers, Xilinx announced a series of new data center products and solutions, including the new Alveo SmartNIC series, smart world (smart world) AI video analysis applications,From networking and AI analytics to financial transactions, today's most demanding and complex applications demand low latency and real-time performance. The realization of this performance level is always limited by the high cost and long cycle of hardware development. With these new products and solutions, Xilinx is clearing the way for software developers to rapidly build and deploy software-defined, hardware-accelerated applications on Alveo accelerator cards.

     "Data centers are transforming to increase network bandwidth and optimize for workloads such as artificial intelligence and real-time analytics," said Salil Raje, executive vice president and general manager of the Data Center Group at Xilinx. "These complex, compute-intensive, and continuously evolving Workloads are pushing existing infrastructure to the limits of performance and driving the need for fully composable software-defined hardware accelerators that provide the flexibility to optimize today's most demanding applications while maintaining It also provides the flexibility to quickly adapt to new workloads and protocols and accelerate them at wire speed.”

     The Xilinx Alveo SN1000 is the industry's first family of composable SmartNICs that provide software-defined hardware acceleration for various function offloads. The SN1000 SmartNIC directly offloads CPU-intensive tasks to optimize networking performance, and its open architecture accelerates a wide range of networking functions at wire speed.

     Using the Vitis Networking platform and industry-standard high-level programming languages such as P4, C, and C++, software developers can create network functions, protocols, and applications that run in hardware on SmartNICs. Vitis Networking enables organizations to quickly and easily combine new network functions and adapt existing network functions to handle new protocols and new applications without changing hardware, enabling future-proof investments.

     The SN1000 SmartNIC provides software-defined hardware acceleration for many types of networking, security and storage offload, such as Open Virtual Switch (Open vSwitch) and Virtualization Acceleration (Virtio.net). Secure offload includes IPsec, kTLS, and SSL/TLS, while accelerated storage applications include Virtio.blk, NVMe™ over TCP, Ceph, and compression and encryption services.