Xilinx' new SDAccel dev environment release offers 25X better performance/watt

Xilinx said its new 2015.1 release of the SDAccel development environment for OpenCL framework, C, and C++ gets you 25X better performance/watt for data center application acceleration using FPGAs. The SDAccel development environment 2015.1 release provides new ease-of-use enhancements to the Eclipse-based SDAccel IDE including new debug and profiling features to accelerate the development and deployment of OpenCL, C, and C++ kernels. The new release features SDAccel development environment Khronos standard compliance with support for a new OpenCL Installable Client Driver (ICD). Xilinx suggests with the ICD extension, multiple implementations of OpenCL can co-exist on the same system, enabling applications developers to select real-time between CPUs, GPUs and FPGAs for run time acceleration and power savings. "Bitfusion maximizes performance of existing data center applications through a combination of hardware accelerators, unique software abstractions and libraries. While we enable 'plug and play' acceleration, we also depend heavily on the underlying vendor hardware and tools to deliver high levels of performance," said Subbu Rama, CEO of Bitfusion.io, Inc. "As users of the Xilinx Kintex UltraScale FPGAs and the SDAccel development environment, we have been happy with the evolution of the environment and the great support provided by Xilinx to demonstrate OpenCL FPGA a...