IBM's cloud service will host the Xilinx SDAccel development environment which will allow developers to describe their algorithms in OpenCL, C, and C++ and then compile directly to Xilinx FPGA-based acceleration boards.

This is an open access cloud service, called SuperVessel, which can be used by application developers, system designers, and academic researchers to create, test and pilot their FPGA designs for big data analytic processors and even data gathering IoT node devices.

They will use the software-defined integrated development environment (IDE) to compile, profile, debug and deploy FPGA-based acceleration.

Andy Walsh, senior director of data center business at Xilinx, writes:

“Availability of SDAccel in SuperVessel is another milestone reached in the development of application acceleration on the IBM POWER architecture and will provide a compelling solution for those seeking to accelerate emerging data center applications."

"It has already shown great promise to accelerate workloads in the data centre.”

By: DocMemory
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