SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 7, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced it will demonstrate reconfigurable acceleration for cloud scale applications at SC16. Through a series of demonstrations and presentations, Xilinx and its ecosystem will highlight how Xilinx® All Programmable technologies are ideally suited to handle computationally intensive data center workloads including machine learning, data analytics, video transcoding, storage and networking – enabling the world’s largest cloud service providers to develop and deploy reconfigurable acceleration platforms at cloud scale. To learn more, visit Xilinx at booth #3640, November 14 – 17, 2016 at the Salt Palace Convention Center, Salt Lake City, UT.
Conference Participation
Monday, November 14
- 9:00AM – 12:30PM Second International Workshop on Heterogeneous High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing Workshop – co-sponsored by Xilinx
Tuesday, November 15
- 4:15 – 5:00PM Introduction to Workload Acceleration Using FPGAs and Nimbix
- Location: Nimbix Booth #4072
- 5:15 – 7:00PM Birds of a Feather: Reconfigurable Supercomputing
- Location: Convention Center Meeting Room 250-F
Xilinx Technology Briefing — Reconfigurable Acceleration in the Cloud Data Center
Wednesday, November 16 at 9:00AM
Location: Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (UMOCA)
In this briefing, the principals from Xilinx engineering and research will outline how cloud scale data centers can take advantage of a flexible, power efficient FPGA accelerator platform and provide a look at the Xilinx technology roadmap ahead. Register Now.
Xilinx Demonstrations and Developer Zone – Booth #3640
- Accelerated Image Classification
- Dynamic Provisioning of FPGAs with OpenStack
- Virtualized Network Services with P4 Language
- Storage, Networking and Analytics Framework
- Database Acceleration Engine
Acceleration Developer Zone
The Acceleration Developer Zone is a hands-on opportunity to learn about the evolution of FPGA programming models towards standard programming paradigms like OpenCL. Workstations will be available with a choice of four self-paced tutorials in English and Mandarin and Xilinx experts will be on hand for one-on-one instruction. Participants will get a complimentary trial to the Xilinx developer cloud resources hosted by Nimbix, a leading provider of heterogeneous accelerator clouds for big data and machine learning.
Learn more about these in-booth demos at
https://www.xilinx.com/about/sc16.html#bootHighlignts
Xilinx Ecosystem Demonstrations throughout the Show Floor
- Alpha Data – Booth 2607
- ArrayFire – Booth 717
- Bittware – Booth 3763
- CTAccel – Booth 3775
- HP – Booth 1531
- IBM – Booth 1018/1042
- ICHEC – Booth 3460
- Mellanox – Booth 2631
- Metamako – Booth 547
- Micron – Booth 4254
- Nallatech – Booth 2214
- Nimbix – Booth 4072
- SmartIOPS – Booth 3447
About Xilinx
Xilinx is the leading provider of All Programmable FPGAs, SoCs, MPSoCs, and 3D ICs. Xilinx uniquely enables applications that are both software defined and hardware optimized – powering industry advancements in Cloud Computing, Embedded Vision, Industrial IoT, and 5G Wireless. For more information, visit www.xilinx.com.
