SC19: Adaptive acceleration, deployment-ready solutions for your data center.

Within Reach: The Last Mile to Exascale
Tuesday, November 19 at 3:30pm – 5pm | Room 201-203
Presenter: Ivo Bolsens, senior vice president and chief technology officer, Xilinx

Today, the supercomputing industry is in a global race to exascale computing. Each brigade is vying for the title of ‘first’ or ‘best’ in exascale. This inflection point for computing is creating a new wave of competition within the industry – and internationally. That competition is spurring a wave of innovation. The question is no longer ‘if’ but when and, more importantly shifts to what will be possible in this next great computational era. Regardless of who first breaks the tape, the new technologies and exotic engineering approaches are poised to provide immense industry benefits. The panel will discuss the unique innovations in the coming exascale systems based on an open platform approach, including new technical breakthroughs, software and programming tools, and the practical applications for HPC scenarios.

“Different” doesn’t mean “Difficult”: FPGA Programming Demystified
Tuesday, November 19 & Wednesday, November 20 at 3:30pm; Thursday, November 21 at 1:20pm | Micron booth #335
Presenter: Jamon Bowen, Product Planning and Storage Marketing Director, Xilinx | Rajiv Jain, Financial Segment Marketing Manager, Xilinx

FPGAs are a powerful resource to drive memory intensive simulations.  The programing model is different than other devices, but that doesn’t mean that is has to be difficult.  The heterogeneous computing compiler from Xilinx – Vitis – in combination with a series of optimized FPGA compute libraries makes FPGA programming more approachable than ever before.  Learn about the tool and see a demo of a compute and memory intensive binomial options pricing model (BOPM) in action.   

The Intersection of HPC, Quantitative Finance, and FPGAs on Azure
Thursday, November 21 at 10:00am | Microsoft Azure #633
Presenter: Rajiv Jain, Financial Segment Marketing Manager, Xilinx

Learn how the financial services industry can leverage HPC tools running on Xilinx-enabled Azure FPGA VMs to power their pricing and risk management. We'll outline how the Xilinx Quantitative Finance Library provides accelerated functions and pre-built pricing models to allow quants and developers to quickly build and deploy accelerated solutions with the efficiency of the Azure platform.  These libraries and tools represent the future of customized software developer tools for hardware acceleration.

Visit our ecosystem partners on the show floor at SC19 to see demonstrations of Xilinx technology.