San Jose, Calif., – November 12, 2015 – Programmable logic technology from Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) is now in place inside a new, advanced server cluster at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University Texas at Austin, which seeks to help researchers and academia to run complex algorithmic-based research. Microsoft Research shared more about the server cluster becoming available for research use at TACC, in a blog post today: http://bit.ly/1M81HTQ.

Altera field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are used … Read More → "Altera FPGAs Accelerate Servers at Texas Advanced Computing Center"

November 11, 2015: Denver, CO & Edinburgh, UK

Alpha Data announces the immediate availability of a CAPI enabled acceleration board featuring Xilinx UltraScale(TM) FPGAs.   The CAPI support package for theADM-PCIE-KU3 will enable designers to utilize Xilinx All Programmable FPGA attached to the coherent accelerator processor interfaces on IBM® POWER8™ systems.  The CAPI kit includes the PSL (Power Service Layer) to provide the infrastructure connection to the POWER8 chip, examples of user defined AFU (Accelerator Function Units), as well as OS Kernel extensions and library functions specifically for CAPI.  This solution significantly reduces the development time required to offload … Read More → "Alpha Data Announces OpenPower-Based CAPI Acceleration Solution for Xilinx Ultrascale FPGA Board"