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Mellanox's next-gen Innova network adapter won't just pack the obligatory high-speed interfaces — it'll also embed a Xilinx FPGA. Offloading workloads was already a key plank of Mellanox's adapter strategy, and that's apparently hit some buttons with customers — hence the FPGA.
Senior director of marketing Bob Doud told The Register that the incoming Innova-2 adapters extend that ability to "offload functions that aren't that friendly to software on the host CPU, and to make the networking functions go faster by accelerating difficult functions in the FPGA". Onboard connectivity — network interfaces, RDMA and PCIe — are configurable to either of these host acceleration "look-aside" or network "bump in the wire" acceleration targets.
In look-aside config, traffic is handed first to the SoC, which passes host acceleration workload traffic to the FPGA. There will be two versions of the card, supporting either dual 25Gbps Ethernet interfaces, or two Gbps interfaces configurable either as Gbps of Ethernet or Gbps each of Ethernet and Infiniband.
Doud noted that the Ethernet-Infiniband combo also means the card could be programmed to provide an efficient bridge between the corporate Ethernet and an Infiniband storage infrastructure. These were already in the Mellanox vision, with the FPGA providing additional speed and programmability. It's the look-aside workloads that the company hopes will attract a new market, with Doud citing machine learning, the fledgling FPGA-as-a-service business, blockchain acceleration, search optimisation, and analytics.
The Innova-2 would also be suitable for storage acceleration, Doud said, in NVMe fabrics, handling workloads like compression and deduplication. Doud said while Mellanox is providing some FPGA applications as pre-canned capabilities for example, security acceleration , the company also expects customers who already have FPGA skills to bring their own "magic".
Xilinx's toolkits and development suite are provided with the adapters, and customers will have access to Xilinx's ecosystem partners. Some Mellanox intellectual property is offered to developers by way of what Doud called a "shim". Similarly, the PCIe MAC layer is provided by Xilinx, while Mellanox offers some of the DMA engines for example to handle data movement "so that the customer doesn't have to reimplement that basic plumbing".
While the company has no ambition to become a service company, it's assembled a team of FPGA engineers to help customers with their "knowledge of the board and the system". Unleash the potential of all-flash storage in your Data Center with Huawei. The Register - Independent news and views for the tech community. Part of Situation Publishing. Join our daily or weekly newsletters, subscribe to a specific section or set News alerts.
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