Macnica (hereinafter President to as Macnica), a total service/solution provider in semiconductors, networks Kazumasa Hara cybersecurity, and AI/IoT 94 million yen) ALTIMA Company has announced the launch of a platform to verify solutions that accelerate using the Intel® Programmable Acceleration Card^*1 (Intel® FPGA PAC) Intel® Arria® 10 GX FPGA-equipped version. , has started offering "FPGA Acceleration Lab" free of charge.

By using Intel FPGA PAC, which has become available as a general-purpose product as server OEMs have adopted Intel FPGA PAC, and solutions according to workload, the cost at the time of system introduction and the cost incurred after introduction The TCO (Total Cost of Ownership), which is the total operating and administrative costs, can be greatly reduced. In order to support the introduction of these products, users can access the verification environment through a secure remote connection service using SSL-VPN by using the "FPGA Acceleration Lab" that we have just started offering, and can understand the effects of the introduction and usage. It is possible to check the feeling in advance.

Workloads that can be accelerated using Intel® FPGA PAC differ depending on the solutions released by each company, but this platform can use S64DA, a database acceleration solution provided by Swarm64 AS^*2. . S64DA is an easy-to-use solution that seamlessly adds on to relational databases such as PostgreSQL, MariaDB, and MySQL, enabling near-real-time insights through fast analytical processing, even on large volumes of data.

In addition to Swarm64 AS, bigstream, which accelerates big data platforms such as Apache Spark, provides solutions that accelerate high-profile workloads such as data analysis, media processing, and genome analysis according to customer requests. We plan to make it available on the FPGA Acceleration Lab as well.

*1: Please refer to the following website for details.
https://www.intel.co.jp/content/www/jp/ja/programmable/solutions/acceleration-hub/overview.html
*2: Please refer to the following website for details.
https://plan.seek.intel.com/Swarm64DataAnalyticsLP

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