{"id":23588,"date":"2016-03-16T03:47:48","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T10:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/intel-marrying-fpga-beefy-broadwell-for-open-compute-future"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:05:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:05:57","slug":"intel-marrying-fpga-beefy-broadwell-for-open-compute-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/intel-marrying-fpga-beefy-broadwell-for-open-compute-future","title":{"rendered":"Intel Marrying FPGA, Beefy Broadwell for Open Compute Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/intel-marrying-fpga-beefy-broadwell-for-open-compute-future.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For those who read here often, there are clear signs that the FPGA is set to become a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nextplatform.com\/2015\/11\/17\/fpgas-glimmer-on-the-hpc-horizon-glint-in-hyperscale-sun\/\">compelling acceleration story<\/a> over the next few years.<\/p>\n<p>From the relatively recent Intel acquisition of Altera by chip giant Intel, to less talked-about advancements on the programming front (OpenCL progress, advancements in both hardware and software from FPGA competitor to Intel\/Altera, Xilinx) and of course, consistent competition for the compute acceleration market from GPUs, which dominate the coprocessor market for now.<\/p>\n<p>Last week at the Open Compute Summit we finally got a glimpse of one of the many ways FPGAs might fit into the hyperscale ecosystem (along with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nextplatform.com\/2016\/03\/13\/shiny-new-open-compute-gear-roadmap-ahead\/\">other future hardware insight<\/a>) with an announcement that Intel will be working on future OCP designs featuring an integrated FPGA and Xeon chip. Unlike what many expected, the CPU mate will not be a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nextplatform.com\/2016\/03\/14\/xeon-d-shows-arm-can-beat-intel\/\">Xeon D<\/a>, but rather a proper Broadwell EP. As seen below, this appears to be a 15-core part (Intel did not confirm, but their diagram makes counting rather easy) matched with the Altera Arria 10 GX FPGAs.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nextplatform.com\/2016\/03\/14\/intel-marrying-fpga-beefy-broadwell-open-compute-future\/\">http:\/\/www.nextplatform.com\/2016\/03\/14\/intel-marrying-fpga-b...te-future\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who read here often, there are clear signs that the FPGA is set to become a compelling acceleration story over the next few years. From the relatively recent Intel acquisition of Altera by chip giant Intel, to less talked-about advancements on the programming front (OpenCL progress, advancements in both hardware and software from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":394,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/394"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23588"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67994,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23588\/revisions\/67994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}