Future-proofing the data center with FPGAs

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Dec. 04, 2017, Dec. 04, 2017 – 

Data centers today are under constant pressure to keep up with the world's insatiable demand for more bandwidth but they must do it quickly and cost effectively. This is nearly impossible to achieve with the constantly changing standards and protocols that barrage them. Once a data center is built, a change in protocol could easily result in replacing all the chips in the facility. This is costly, time consuming and a big hassle to coordinate. As a result, data center operators are looking at more and more ways to become flexible, reconfigurable and reprogrammable. In essence, they want to future proof their infrastructure from changes that could delay their ability to meet business objectives.

Programmability is coming to data centers

Data centers have hundreds or thousands of chips – from Arm processors to networking processors and network interface chips (NICs). Chips are expensive to make, with masks often costing several million dollars in advanced nodes, and these costs are shared with the data center over time. There has been a great need over the last several years for chips that could be updated as needed even after being deployed.

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