Arrow delivers software modules for popular AI workloads
As a standardized, open environment for parallel programming of heterogeneous computing systems, which specifies standard programming languages and contains APIs, OpenCL ensures users can complete their projects quickly using familiar techniques. Arrow’s new AI platform includes a compiler, which lets customers also create their own applications if desired.
The modules are provided preloaded on the accelerator card and currently include vector addition, FFT and 2-dimensional FFT, edge detection, file transcoding, face detection, and Sobel edge detection. The Arrow team continues to create new functions to extend support and accelerate adoption. It is also in the process of integrating popular AI frameworks including Caffe and TensorFlow, leveraging OpenCL, to further assist convenient and efficient AI infusion.
The BittWare 385A contains the Intel Arria 10 1150 GX FPGA, efficiently connected to the host via PCIe Gen 3 x8 and directly to two 40Gb Ethernet QSFP+ optical interfaces for off-board communication. Architected for high throughput, the card contains two banks of 4-16GB DDR3 capable of up to 2133 MTransfer/s. The Arria 10 GX provides heterogeneous acceleration, combining hard floating-point DSP blocks with programmable logic fabric.
The accelerator card comes with all demos loaded and supported by BittWare’s OpenCL HPC Board Support Package (BSP) and Intel FPGA OpenCL SDK to assist development. With Camera RealSense also loaded, it is ready to use out of the box.
Arrow is providing easy access to the new AI platform through its unique Testdrive program, which lets customers evaluate development tools – choosing from the total of more than 2,000 currently available, including software, hardware, and specialised hand tools, at their own premises free of charge for up to 28 days.
Arrow Electronics – www.arrow.com
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