FPGAs for Data Center Acceleration
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The document discusses the increasing data traffic and its impact on data centers, emphasizing the challenge of matching processor speed with rising bandwidth demands. It highlights the role of FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) as effective accelerators capable of overcoming performance bottlenecks while being energy efficient. The presentation underscores that traditional processors are struggling to keep pace with the rapid advancements in network speeds, making FPGAs a viable solution for modern computational needs.
FPGAs for Data Center Acceleration
- 1. FPGAs for Data Center Acceleration *This presentation is the intellectual property of Logic Fruit Technologies . Any plagiarism or misuse is punishable according to Indian Laws. December 2022
- 2. FPGAs: A considerable surge in data traffic is recognized every single day as now many technologies have evolved, leading to more and more data production. The latest Cisco Visual Networking Index of 2019 forecasts that global IP traffic “will grow at a CAGR of 26 percent from 2017 to 2022,” which would result in an annual IP traffic rate of 4.8 Zettabytes per year (396 Exabytes per month). 2
- 3. The Bottleneck 3 The increasing burden on data centers, mainly because of the work-from-the-home situation during covid-19, has presented architects with a new challenge: processor speed vs. bandwidth. You must be very aware of the famous Moore’s law, which holds that silicon device processing power doubles every two years. Tragically, conventional processors have not developed at anything distantly like that rate. Many factors, including the breakdown of Dennard scaling and leveling-off of the von Neuman architecture progress, have contrived to slow the development in performance. However, network port speeds have been dramatically growing due to the increasing demand for internet services. Researchers have estimated that server processors and current silicon technology will no longer go hand in hand.
- 4. With an exponentially rising port speed, there is also a need to either upgrade or supplant the servers to handle the growth. 4
- 5. FPGAs – A state-of-the-art contender in the acceleration arena FPGAs, the acronym for “Field Programmable Gate Array,” are superb contenders for the acceleration crown. With around 30 years of history in the electronics industry, its use as a server accelerator in the data center is relatively new. FPGAs do have the capability to burst the bottlenecks that hold back performance on analytical tasks— without bursting your power or cooling budgets. FPGAs, which are integrated circuits like microprocessors, can be dynamically reprogrammed to coordinate with the exact computational requirement of a workload or algorithm. This nearby coordination brings about quicker computational speed and lower power and energy utilization. It is a matter of coincidence that when the CPU could not handle the computing complexities of many workloads for a bulk of reasons, FPGAs have come forward to answer the “COMPUTE GAP,” providing excellent performances and heterogeneous computing capabilities maintaining low latency. 5
- 6. 6 To know more about FPGAs for Data Center Acceleration, see https://www.logic-fruit.com/blog/fpga/fpgas-for-data- center-acceleration/
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