Hardware adaptable, software programmable SmartNICs​

Presented at the OCP '21 Conference by Xilinx's Kartik Srinivasan, Head of Networking & Computational Storage Products, this talk provides an overview of how Xilinx combines heterogeneous acceleration engines to provide the most efficient way to address the dynamic needs of data center networking.

In order to support the rapid evolution of enterprise and Cloud data centers, along with workload-optimized computing services, the role of high-speed and smart networking has become an integral part of next-generation data centers. This is driving increased adoption of SmartNICs in data centers providing CPU offloads, virtualization, container acceleration and software-defined flexible hardware acceleration. While maintaining networking performance and security with easy programmability, SmartNICs also provide flexibility to add future workload composability and accelerate feature velocity.