IDF San Francisco 2016. New Product Overview инок 2

We continue the story about the most interesting news from the 2016 Intel Developer Forum. The second part of the report is a bit late for calendar and technical reasons, however, we promise, it will be no less fascinating than the previous one. This IDF was unexpectedly rich in far-reaching announcements, which is good news. So, in this release: the first Intel product, made using silicon photonics technology, the FPGA matrix of the new generation from Altera, as well as one new software product for data center operation and one not very new.

Almost 20 years of Intel's research in the field of silicon photonics was crowned with the release of the first serial device with a silicon-on-a-chip laser. This device has become an optical transceiver 100G (Ethernet 100 Gbit / s). Such modules, as we know, already exist - what are the advantages of those that use advanced technology? There are two main ones: firstly, the size of transceivers is significantly reduced, and secondly, their power consumption also drops significantly, which together provides the basis for switching to higher speeds. Now the designer has a 1Tb / s interface on the pencil, there are no technological problems for its implementation by the silicon photonics method.

A significant event in the world of FPGA and SoC is the release of the new Stratix 10 chip from one of the leaders in this field, Altera, which has recently become part of Intel. Made on the 14-nm Tri-Gate technology, the chip demonstrates a two-fold increase in performance with a 70% reduction in power consumption. A special pride of developers is an integrated memory with ultra-low access time, as well as an ultra-dense FPGA-matrix with more than 5 million logical elements. Stratix 10 is available in two versions: FPGA and SoC, complete with 4-core ARM Cortex-A53 processor. FPGA performance reaches 10 TFLOPS, the speed of supported transceivers is up to 56 Gb / s. By the way, Stratix 10 will be the first FPGA Altera, which will be released under the Intel brand. Well, you are not ashamed to put your logo on such a chip.
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We now turn to the news of software engineering. Introducing Intel Rack Scale Design - a set of software tools for the distribution of computing and network resources, as well as storage volumes through the REST API. The purpose of creating an IRSD is to more efficiently use the available capacities, as well as the possibility of dynamically distributing them based on the current workloads at the scale of the data center or cluster of server nodes. Intel Rack Scale Design was created as part of the Open Source program of Intel (distributed under the Apache 2.0 license), a description of the project can be found at 01.org .

Another useful open source framework, created by the Intel Software Defined Infrastructure Group - snap , is a data center telemetry data collection tool. With this tool, also implemented as a REST API, you can:

• get an exhaustive telemetry dataset
• flexibly customize data flow from a variety of sources
• process data based on your needs
• exercise ongoing monitoring of telemetry data streams

Snap, generally speaking, is not a novelty, rather a hit, because for 8 months from the date of its issuance it was downloaded more than 10 thousand times. Taking this opportunity, we want to draw your attention to this interesting framework.