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NetFPGA is excited to announce a new hardware will join NetFPGA family of open-source networking platforms.
The PCIe board, NetFPGA SUME, is an FPGA-based PCI Express board with I/O capabilities for 10 and 100 Gbps operation, an x8 Gen3 PCIe adapter card incorporating Xilinx’s Virtex-7 690T FPGA.
The peripheral subsystems adds to the four SFP+ transceivers with replaceable DDR3-SODIMM memories, QDRII+ memories, as well as presenting the 18 remaining transceivers into two expansion interfaces of eight and ten 13.1Gbps (GTH) transceivers using an VITA-57 compliant FMC connector and an SAMTEC QTH-DP connector.
An article describing this card appeared in the September/October issue of IEEE Micro Magazine - the official link to the article is here. You can access the pre-print version of the paper here.
If you would like to be kept up to date on NetFPGA SUME, please fill this form.
As a starting point, new users may find the Getting Started Guide a good place to begin.
We hope you are as excited as we are to have this new addition to our growing family of open-source NetFPGA platforms, and we hope that you will be part of our exciting future.
Performance and Resource Utilization for Divider Generator v5.1
Vivado Design Suite Release 2018.2
Interpreting the results:
This page contains maximum frequency and resource utilization data for several configurations of this IP core. The data is separated into a table per device family. In each table, each row describes a test case.
The columns are divided into test parameters and results. The test parameters include the part information and the core-specific configuration parameters.
Any configuration parameters that are not listed have their default values; any parameters with a blank value are disabled or set automatically by the IP core. Consult the product guide for this IP core for a list of GUI parameter and user parameter mappings.
Resource figures are taken from the utilization report issued at the end of implementation using the Out-of-Context flow in Vivado Design Suite.
The Out-of-Context IP constraints include HD.CLK_SRC properties as required to ensure correct hold timing closure: these properties are enabled using the Tcl command: set_param ips.includeClockLocationConstraints true
Maximum frequency is measured using the Out-of-Context flow to synthesize and implement the IP instance in isolation. This ensures that the design is not distorted in order to route to device pins.
Maximum frequency is the result of a binary search of attempted clock period constraints. The reported figure is the highest frequency at which the design met timing.
LUT figures do not include LUTs used as pack-thrus, but do include LUTs used as memory.
Default Vivado Design Suite 2018.2 settings were used. You may be able to improve on these figures using different settings. Because surrounding circuitry will affect placement and timing, no guarantee can be given that these figures will be repeatable in a larger design.
Data is provided for the following device families:
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Intel Socket-P LGA 3647 Processors 6138P includes the Intel® Arria® 10 GX FPGA
the Intel® Xeon® Scalable
processor with integrated Intel® Arria® 10 field programmable gate array
(FPGA) is now available to select customers. This marks the first
production release of an Intel® Xeon® processor with a coherently
interfaced FPGA—an important result of Intel’s acquisition of Altera.
The combination of these industry-leading FPGA solutions with Intel’s
world-class processors enables customers to create the next generation
of data center systems with flexible workload-optimized performance and
power efficiency.
1.0 The Intel® Xeon® Gold 6138P processor with Integrated Arria® 10 GX 1150 FPGA delivers up to 3.2X throughput with half the latency and 2X more VMs when compared to Intel® Xeon® Gold 6138P processor with software OVS (Open Virtual Switch) DPDK forwarding in the CPU user space application.
Configuration: 2x Intel® Xeon® Gold 6138P processor with Integrated Intel® Arria® 10 GX 1150 FPGA on Blue Mountain Pass (BMP) platform,
12 x 16GB Micron 2Rx8 DDR4 2666MHz (192GB total),
240GB Kingston SSD,
1xPCI-E 3.0 x8 slot and 1xPCI-E 3.0 x10 slot,
Network NICs:1x 100G Alaska NIC and 2 x Intel® Ethernet Network Adapter XXV710-DA2 (25GbE NIC) (fw 5.50.47059 api 1.5 nvm 5.51 0x80002bf8 1.1568.0),
Operating System: Ubuntu-16.04.3,
OS Kernel: 4.4.0-116-generic,
Bios: SE5C620.86B.01.00.0813.041020180320 (Release Date: 04/10/2018),
uCode: mb750654_02000043,
FPGA BBS v6.4.0_Production (GBS 6.4.0,
OPAE-0.12.1, Lib switch OPAE ver 1.1),
VM opearting system: Ubuntu 17.10,
OS Kernel: 4.13.0-31-generic...
Compared to 2x Intel® Xeon® Gold 6138P processor on Blue Mountain Pass (BMP) platform, 12 x 16GB Micron 2Rx8 DDR4 2666MHz (192GB total), 240GB Kingston SSD, 1xPCI-E 3.0 x8 slot and 1xPCI-E 3.0 x10 slot, Network NICs:1x 100G Alaska NIC and 2 x Intel® Ethernet Network Adapter XXV710-DA2 (25GbE NIC) (fw 5.50.47059 api 1.5 nvm 5.51 0x80002bf8 1.1568.0), Operating System: Ubuntu-16.04.3, OS Kernel: 4.4.0-116-generic, Bios: SE5C620.86B.01.00.0813.041020180320 (Release Date: 04/10/2018), uCode: mb750654_02000043, VM opearting system: Ubuntu 17.10, OS Kernel: 4.13.0-31-generic, Benchmark: Open vSwitch 2.9.0,
The benchmark results may need to be revised as additional testing is conducted. The results depend on the specific platform configurations and workloads utilizedin the testing, and may not be applicable to any particular user's components, computer system or workloads. The results are not necessarily representative of other benchmarks and other benchmark results may show greater or lesser impact from mitigations. Software and workloads used in performance tests may have been optimized for performance only on Intel microprocessors. Performance tests, such as SYSmark* and MobileMark*, are measured using specific computer systems, components, software, operations and functions. Any change to any of those factors may cause the results to vary. You should consult other information and performance tests to assist you in fully evaluating your contemplated purchases, including the performance of that product when combined with other products. For more information go to http://www.intel.com/performance.
Introducing the Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor with integrated Intel® Arria® 10 FPGA
The Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processor 6138P includes the Intel® Arria® 10 GX 1150, which provides up to 160Gbps of I/O bandwidth per socket and a cache-coherent interface for tightly coupled acceleration. The Intel® Arria® 10 GX 1150 has its own cache and shares memory with the processor via low-latency, cache coherent access over the Intel® Ultra Path Interconnect (Intel® UPI) bus. Unlike other system interface bus standards, Intel® UPI allows seamless access to data regardless of where the data resides (core cache, FPGA cache, or memory) without the need for redundant data storage and direct memory access (DMA) transfers. Data coherency also reduces application programming complexity and saves CPU cycles that would be wasted to determine which data is most-up-to-date.
A great example of this system capability is Intel’s new virtual switching reference design for the Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor with integrated FPGA. This reference design uses the FPGA for infrastructure dataplane switching, while the processor does application processing or processes virtual machines. This helps simplify network complexity and improve the productivity of the processor.
This solution is also compatible with the Open Virtual Switch (OVS) framework and delivers a dramatic 3.2X throughput improvement at half the latency and 2X more VMs as compared to OVS running on an equivalent processor without FPGA acceleration.1 Additionally, code compatibility with Intel’s OVS-DPDK software makes data center retrofits simple and scalable to optimize operational agility.
Fujitsu, a lead partner, plans to deliver systems based on the Intel® Xeon® processor with integrated FPGA and Intel’s OVS reference design. They are making the Intel® virtual switching reference design even more robust for the networking environment through their reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) with performance monitoring and debug assisting functions. This solution is being demonstrated this week at the Fujitsu Forum in Tokyo.
FPGAs continue to be an important part of Intel’s portfolio of workload-optimized solutions for the data center. Going forward, we will continue to improve ease of use of Intel® FPGAs and other accelerators in the datacenter. To provide our customers with greater deployment flexibility, Intel’s future roadmap will introduce a discrete FPGA solution with faster coherent and increased high-bandwidth interconnect enabled by the Acceleration Stack for Intel® Xeon® CPU with FPGAs. It will support code migration from the Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor with Integrated FPGA and the Intel® Programmable Acceleration Card (Intel® PAC) solutions, and will continue to be optimized for enhanced bandwidth and low latency.
To learn more about the new Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor with integrated FPGA, visit www.intel.com/accelerators.
Image source: Intel Now Intel has finally announced that they are shipping their Xeon 6138P Gold with integrated FPGA accelerator to selected customers.
The Intel Xeon 6138P includes one Arria10 GX 1150 FPGA core, with up to 160Gbps of I/O bandwidth and a cache-coherent interface for tightly coupled acceleration. The Arria FPGA has its own cache and connects with the Xeon processor via Intel’s ultra fast UPI (Ultra Path Interconnect). The data sharing between processor and FPGA do not need DMA access, reducing programming complexity.
According Anandtech, “The Xeon Scalable Gold 6138 is already an existing CPU, and the x86 silicon on the 6138P looks to be identical between the two parts: A 20C/40T CPU, with a 2GHz base clock, 3.7GHz boost, with 6 channels of DDR4 support. The PCIe lane count is different — 48 lanes on the base 6138 compared with 32 lanes on the 6138P — but this almost certainly means that 16 of those PCIe 3.0 lanes have been diverted for bandwidth for the FPGA.”
According to Intel, the integrated processor Xeon delivers a 3.2x throughput improvement at half the latency compared to an FPGA-less Xeon device.
In the announcement, Intel has stated that “Fujitsu, a lead partner, plans to deliver systems based on the Intel® Xeon® processor with integrated FPGA and Intel’s OVS reference design. They are making the Intel® virtual switching reference design even more robust for the networking environment through their reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) with performance monitoring and debug assisting functions. This solution is being demonstrated this week at the Fujitsu Forum in Tokyo.”
The Monacoin (MONA) was
launched in 2014 on Japan’s 2channel. Their Monacoin (MONA) currency is based on an ASCII-art
character of a cat called “mona,” and popular on Japanese online
forums.
The Monacoin is Japan’s first cryptocurrency and its popularity as a
meme coin that rivals Dogecoin.
Monacoin was released by a person or group known as
pseudonymously, as “Mr. Watanabe.”
This real identity of Mr. Watanabe
remains a mystery.
Mr. Watanabe first introduced Monacoin, suggested that the coin is a game and its mission is to find its
hashes.
It is similar to currencies found in roleplaying games -i.e. Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, and etc.
Mr. Watanabe clarified that
MONA is not a form of security, but points that
are hashes collected on a network.
With this name and cat logo, Monacoin naturally fit into
Japan’s otaku culture.
Monacoin has become Japan’s favorite "meme" coin
and commonly used to tip on Japanese forums.
Monacoin is accepted in a number of online physical shops in Japan, and website Japanese bulletin boards; -i.e. AskMona and Monappy, which
is basically a Japanese version of Ebay.
Monacoin Value, Market Cap and Volume:
Monacoin-(MONA) has a hard cap volume supply of 105,120,000 MONA coins. The MONA-coin is not pre-mine.
MONA-coin is in the top 100 cryptocurrencies via market capitalization.
This MONA-coin value increased exponentially.
Monacoin total market cap briefly
exceeded $1 billion USD, hitting a high of $19.22.
The
price of Monacoin bulled back, but it still
experiences periods of volatility.
MONA's approved ATM's are for depositing and withdrawing BTC and Mona.
MonaCoin CryptoCurrency is one of the few used for
purchasing online/offline products.
Use of MONACOIN in businesses regards restaurants are
accepting mona in Japan.
Yes it's true, that the number of stores,
websites, and service providers that accept MonaCoin increases every
day.
Japanese internet sites, message boards, restaurants, many other businesses, and web
wallets that streamline the shopping experience for MONA owners. Major
Japanese electronics store, such as, Ark Akihabara accepts Monacoin, alongside
Bitcoin.
Monacoin has implemented
Lightning Network.
This implementation will help the currency for faster transaction,
instant payments cross blockchain transaction.
Monacoin dev team
is developing new improved ideas as you read this protecting your privacy.
With Segwit activated, Monacoin now is like Ethereum, Dash,
and XMR combined.
Monacoin is designed to
resist centralization, such as, Vertcoin, and the Lyra2REv2 algorithm inside
Monacoin is designed to resist the development of custom mining hardware
and multipool mining.
Mona developers are ensuring that transactions are validated by a
widely distributed network.
the Mona developers decentralization is there prime directive of
cryptocurrency.
If you desire to read more details:
Read the Lyra2REv2 white
paper.
Yet, Monacoin achieves without the need of
Proof-of-Stake and all its Problems.
Limited supply + Hoarded
mining = total fucking scam.
The Asic resistance of Lyra2REv2 translates ASIC developers are the Private-Financial Institutions Puppet Sheeple entrapping millions.
Sheeple Puppet ASIC
miners can not fork over monacoin if they do not like Segwit.
TECHNICAL DETAILS:
Genesis Block: April 2014
Algorithm: Lyra2REv2 (from 450,000 Block)
Difficulty Algorithm : Dark Gravity Wave (from 450,000 Block)
Segwit: Activated (from 977760 Block)
Premine: none
Block reward: 25 MONA
Block time: 1.5 minutes
Retarget: Every block
Totalcoins: 168 million
These technical details are found on their official website:
(http://monacoin.org
).
Image source: Intel Now Intel has finally announced that they are shipping their Xeon 6138P Gold with integrated FPGA accelerator to selected customers.
Image Source: Anandtech For more information: