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Alveo U280 accelerator card

Dear Colleagues!

We are glad to inform you that the Alveo U280 acceleration card now has production status, which means it can be used 24/7 in data processing centers.

The Xilinx Alveo U280 accelerator card is designed to solve the problems of modern data centers. The map is based on FPGA XCU280 with 8GB of HBM2 memory on board and bandwidth of 460 GB/s.
 
Card information U280: https://www.xilinx.com/products/boards-and-kits/alveo/u280.html

Teraoperations int8 per second 24.5
Memory Bandwidth HBM2 460 GB / s
DDR bandwidth 38 GB / s
Bandwidth internal sram 30 TB / s
LUTs 1079 K
PCIe Gen4 x8 (CCIX support)
Maximum power 225W
Cooling Passive or active
Form factor Full Height, ¾ Length (passive) Full Height, Full Length (active)
 
On the text translation task, the U280 shows a performance of more than 10,000 characters / second with a delay of 6 ms.

Details in the article: Supercharge Your HBM-Enabled UltraScale + Devices Featuring Samsung HBM2
https://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/white_papers/wp508-hbm2.pdf

When working with databases, the speed of the U280 reaches 1200 million requests per second. The response time is 4 times less than when CPU usage.