ARMONK (dpa-AFX) - International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) and Programmable chip maker Xilinx, Inc. (XLNX) announced Monday a multi-year strategic collaboration to accelerate data center applications.
The companies said the collaboration would enable higher performance and energy-efficient data center applications through Xilinx FPGA-enabled workload acceleration on IBM POWER-based systems.
IBM and Xilinx, through a private signed agreement and collaboration through the OpenPOWER Foundation, are teaming to develop open acceleration infrastructures, software and middleware to address emerging applications such as machine learning, network functions virtualization, genomics, high performance computing (and big data analytics.
Under the deal, IBM Systems Group developers will create solution stacks for POWER-based servers, storage and middleware systems with Xilinx FPGA accelerators for data center architectures. IBM will also develop and qualify Xilinx accelerator boards into IBM Power Systems servers.
Xilinx is developing and will release POWER-based versions of its leading software defined SDAccel Development Environment and libraries for the OpenPOWER developer community.
Separately, IBM announced that the company and several fellow OpenPOWER Foundation members revealed new technologies, collaborations and developer resources to enable clients to analyze data more deeply and with incredible speed.
The new offerings center on the tight integration of IBM's open and licensable POWER processors with accelerators, dedicated high performance processors that can be optimized for computationally intensive software code.
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