CAPI Acceleration Development Kit brings coherent FPGA acceleration to IBM POWER8 servers

By Steve Leibson - Xcell Daily, Jun. 10, 2015 – 

Alpha Data has announced a CAPI Acceleration Development Kit based on its ADM-PCIE-7V3 PCIe board incorporating a Xilinx Virtex-7 690T FPGA, IBM?s CAPI (Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface) protocol, a library of Alpha Data CAPI reference designs, and IP from Xilinx and 3rd-party vendors. CAPI is IBM?s high-speed acceleration protocol for servers based on the company?s POWER8 superscalar, symmetric multiprocessors used in its high-end servers. The protocol connects custom acceleration engines to the coherent fabric of the POWER8 chip that removes both the overhead of an I/O subsystem and the software required to communicate through such a subsystem, which produces accelerators with much better performance.

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