November 16, 2015: SC15 Austin, TX — Alpha Data, a leading supplier of high-performance FPGA solutions, will showcase the new ADM-PCIE-8V3 FPGA accelerator card at the Supercomputing Conference, November 16-19, in Austin. The ADM-PCIE-8V3, ideal for a variety of HPC applications, is a half-length, low profile, PCI Express add-in card designed to support the Xilinx Virtex® UltraScale™ VU095 FPGA in the FFVC1517 package. 

Key features of the ADM-PCIE-8V3 include the 16 lane PCIe Gen3-capable card edge, which allows for dual 8 lane endpoints in a bifurcated system for maximum data throughput. Additional front IO, supporting up to 4x100GbE interfaces with 2x QSFP28 cages and 2x Samtec FireFly modules, allows this board to become a massive network device (total of 16 x 28Gbps transceivers for I/O). There are also two DDR4 ECC memory banks created with solder down memory (2 banks – 72 bits wide, 16GB total of DDR4-2400 memory). System monitoring of temperature, voltage, and current on each supply gives developers accurate feedback of power utilization for their designs. Alpha Data supports this hardware with a fully integrated Board Support Package (BSP) including extensive FPGA example designs, plug and play drivers, and a mature Application Programming Interface (API).  

“Our latest UltraScale product, the ADM-PCIE-8V3, enables powerful new capabilities for 100G and 25G networking acceleration.  Drawing on over 20 years of experience designing high reliability FPGA based board products; the choice to use off-the-shelf hardware is becoming even more compelling.” Adam Smith, CEO, Alpha Data Inc.

Alpha Data and Xilinx, the world’s leading provider of All Programmable devices, will also feature the ADM-PCIE-7V3 and the ADM-PCIE-KU3 FPGA accelerator boards, which are intended for datacenter applications requiring high-throughput processing and software acceleration.   Software based development flows will also be supported by the hardware using OpenPOWER CAPI and the Xilinx SDAccel™ Development Environment.

“Alpha Data has been a long-standing certified member of the Xilinx Alliance Program and a valued partner providing production-ready acceleration and networking platforms,” stated Chris Hallahan, director of the Xilinx Alliance Program.  “Alpha Data’s newest platform featuring the Virtex UltraScale VU095 with 16GB of DDR4, dual PCIe Gen3x8 with DMA and up to 400GbE network throughput in a low profile, half-length card delivers impressive performance for our data center customers.” 

Visitors to SC15 can learn more about the Alpha Data’s PCI Express accelerator cards by visiting Alpha Data at booth #368 or by visiting Xilinx at booth #381.

For More Details

Further product details and ordering options for Alpha Data’s FPGA accelerator cards please visit http://www.alpha-data.com/dcp/products.php?product=adm-pcie-8v3&loc=pr.

About Alpha Data

Established in 1993, Alpha Data is a world leader in FPGA platforms and systems. The company supplies essential hardware and development tools to companies developing innovative systems for high performance computing, defense, communications, signal processing, instrumentation and life sciences applications. Its products and services provide an integrated framework from prototype-to-production and support a variety of protocols and standards including CAPI, PCIe, OpenCL, CompactPCI, XMC, VPX, PMC/PMC-X, VME/VXS, and reconfigurable XRM-IO hardware formats.