Altera Demonstrating FPGA-based Data Center Solutions at Intel Developers Forum 2014


SAN JOSE, Calif. — Altera Corporation (Nasdaq: ALTR) is demonstrating several advanced reconfigurable logic technologies at the Intel Developers Forum (IDF) 2014 that showcase how its FPGA-based solutions are advancing the capabilities of software-defined data centers and high-performance computing applications.



Altera's FPGA-based solutions on display showcase the capabilities of its hardware and software solutions, including advanced optical transport network (OTN) interconnect technology, interoperability with next- generation memories and programmer-friendly OpenCL solutions.



Altera's demonstration booth (#151) is located in the Silicon Photonics Community at IDF 2014, taking place September 9-11, 2014, at the Moscone West Convention Center in San Francisco, Calif. Altera is also demonstrating a QPI IP solution in Pactron Corporation's booth located in the general exhibit area.



Altera's technical demonstrations include:



    --  100G Optical Solutions Running on High-Performance FPGAs. This

        demonstration shows high-performance Stratix® V FPGAs driving a 100G

        CFP2 optical link across 10 kilometers of optical fiber. This technology

        shows a solution for flexible 100G data centers applications using

        FPGAs.



    --  FPGA Interoperability with Micron's Hybrid-Memory Cube. This demonstration

        shows the interoperability between Stratix V FPGAs and Micron's Hybrid

        Memory Cube (HMC). HMC addresses the limitations of conventional memory

        technologies by providing up to 15 times the bandwidth while using 70

        percent less energy and 90 percent less space than existing

        technologies.



    --  Financial Model Acceleration with FPGAs. This demonstration uses OpenCL to

        efficiently implement multiple kernels on an FPGA performing a Monte

        Carlo simulation to price options. Utilizing the OpenCL standard on a

        massively parallel FPGA architecture provides an effective solution for

        system acceleration, offering significantly higher performance at much

        lower power versus GPUs.



    --  QuickPath Interconnect (QPI) Linking an Intel Xeon® Processor to an

        FPGA. Located in Pactron's booth in the general exhibit area, this

        demonstration coherently connects an Intel Xeon processor to a

        high-performance Stratix V FPGA using the QPI protocol. The FPGA is

        configured as the home agent and extends co-processing for the Intel

        processor. FPGAs provide a platform to significantly increase compute

        performance while reducing system costs and power in high-performance

        computing and data center applications.



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