Xilinx and IBM put big data FPGA design in the cloud

Cloud-based FPGA design is the focus of a tie-up between Xilinx and IBM. 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 …

Xilinx and IBM put big data FPGA design in the cloud