Intel Rolls Out Multi-Generation Infrastructure Processing Unit (IPU) Roadmap at Vision 2022
Intel IPUs were featured in two sessions at Intel Vision 2022, “Datacenter of the Future: Efficient, Secure, and Sustainable” on Day 1 and “How Software Defined & Programmable Platforms Will Fuel Your Innovation” on Day 2. Read more to learn what was revealed.
We Hope to See You at Intel® FPGA Technology Day 2021
Intel® FPGA Technology Day (IFTD) is a free four-day event that will be hosted virtually across the globe in North America, China, Japan, EMEA, and Asia Pacific from December 6-9, 2021. The theme of IFTD 2021 is “Accelerating a Smart and Connected World.” This virtual event will showcase Intel® FPGAs, SmartNICs, and infrastructure processing units (IPUs) through webinars and demonstrations presented by Intel experts and partners. The sessions are designed to be of value for a wide range of audiences, including Technology Managers, Product Managers, Board Designers, and C-Level Executives. Attendees to this four-day event will learn how Intel’s solutions can solve the toughest design challenges and provide the flexibility to adapt to the needs of today’s rapidly evolving markets. A full schedule of Cloud, Networking, Embedded, and Product Technology sessions, each just 30 minutes long, will enable you to build the best agenda for your needs. Day 1 (December 6), TECHNOLOGY: FPGAs for a Dynamic Data Centric World: Advances in cloud infrastructure, networking, and computing at the edge are accelerating. Flexibility is key to keeping pace with this transforming world. Learn about innovations developed and launched in 2021 along with new Intel FPGA technologies that address key market transitions. Day 2 (December 7), CLOUD AND ENTERPRISE: Data Center Acceleration: The cloud is changing. Disaggregation improves data center performance and scalability but requires new tools to keep things optimized. Intel FPGA smart infrastructure enables smarter applications to make the internet go fast! Day 3 (December 8): EMBEDDED: Transformation at the Edge: As performance and latency continue to dictate compute’s migration to the edge, Intel FPGAs provide the workload consolidation and optimization required with software defined solutions enabled by a vast and growing partner ecosystem. Day 4 (December 9): NETWORKING: 5G – The Need for End-to-End Programmability: The evolution of 5G continues to push the performance-to-power envelop, requiring market leaders to adapt or be replaced. Solutions for 5G and beyond will require scalable and programmable portfolios to meet evolving standards and use cases. To explore the detailed program, see the featured speakers, and register for the North America event, Click Here. Register in other regions below: EMEA China Japan Asia Pacific
Infrastructure Processing Units (IPUs) intelligently manage and accelerate data center infrastructure
Today during the virtual Six Five Summit, Intel unveiled its vision for infrastructure processing units (IPUs), programmable networking devices designed to enable cloud and communication service providers (CSPs and CoSPs) to reduce overhead and free up CPU cycles by taking over and intelligently managing system-level infrastructure in data centers. IPUs help data centers better utilize resources by providing a secure, programmable, stable solution that helps to balance processing and storage resource demands. Guido Appenzeller, Chief Technology Officer of the Intel Data Platforms Group, said: “The IPU is a new category of technologies and is one of the strategic pillars of our cloud strategy. It expands upon our SmartNIC capabilities and is designed to address the complexity and inefficiencies in the modern data center. At Intel, we are dedicated to creating solutions and innovating alongside our customer and partners — the IPU exemplifies this collaboration.” IPUs can: Accelerate infrastructure functions – including storage virtualization, network virtualization and security – using dedicated protocol accelerators. Free up CPU cores by offloading storage and network virtualization functions previously performed by software running on CPUs. Improve data center utilization by allowing more flexible workload placement. Enable CSPs to customize infrastructure function deployments quickly, using software alone. “As a result of Intel’s collaboration with a majority of hyperscalers, Intel is already the volume leader in the IPU market with our Xeon-D, FPGA and Ethernet components,” said Patty Kummrow, vice president in the Data Platforms Group and general manager of Ethernet Products Group at Intel. Intel and Intel Partners will continue to roll out FPGA-based IPU platforms and dedicated ASICs that leverage the powerful software foundation that Intel has already developed. For more information, see “Intel Unveils Infrastructure Processing Unit.” For more information about FPGA-based IPUs from Intel and Intel Partners, click here. Notices & Disclaimers Intel technologies may require enabled hardware, software or service activation. No product or component can be absolutely secure. Your costs and results may vary. © Intel Corporation. Intel, the Intel logo, and other Intel marks are trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries. Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.Intel® Agilex™ FPGAs with high-performance Crypto Blocks target Infrastructure Processing Units (IPUs), SmartNICs, and 5G Networks
From the edge to the cloud, security challenges in the form of cyberattacks and data breaches loom ever larger as attacks on high-speed networks multiply. Massive amounts of data are at risk but so are physical resources including critical physical infrastructure. Cryptography and authentication represent potent countermeasures to these attacks. The latest members of the Intel® Agilex™ FPGA and SoC FPGA families (AGF023/AGF019 and AGI023/AGI019) now feature high-performance crypto blocks paired with MACsec soft IP to help mitigate the risks and limit the effects of these cyberattacks. Here’s a diagram showing the major features of these new Intel Agilex FPGAs with high-performance crypto blocks: A new White Paper titled “Intel® Agilex™ FPGAs target IPUs, SmartNICs, and 5G Networks” describes these Intel Agilex FPGAs with high-performance crypto blocks in more detail. For more information about Infrastructure Processing Units (IPUs), see: "Infrastructure Processing Units (IPUs) intelligently manage and accelerate data center infrastructure" "Want to know more about how Infrastructure Processing Units (IPUs) are revolutionizing data center architecture? A 4-minute video provides clarity" For more information about the broad and growing line of Intel Agilex FPGA and SoC devices, click here. Notices & Disclaimers Intel technologies may require enabled hardware, software or service activation. No product or component can be absolutely secure. Your costs and results may vary. © Intel Corporation. Intel, the Intel logo, and other Intel marks are trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries. Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.Interested in IPUs for datacenters? Attend these three sessions at Intel Vision – May 10, 11
Three informative sessions at the Intel Vision conference–taking place at the Marriott Gaylord Texan and Convention Center outside of Dallas, Texas–will provide more insight into the advantages of IPUs and a look at the future of Intel IPUs.Want to know more about how Infrastructure Processing Units (IPUs) are revolutionizing data center architecture? A 4-minute video provides clarity
Yesterday, Intel unveiled its vision for infrastructure processing units (IPUs), programmable networking devices that free up CPU cycles by taking over and intelligently managing system-level infrastructure in data centers. (See “Infrastructure Processing Units (IPUs) intelligently manage and accelerate data center infrastructure.”) The company also announced that IPUs based on Intel® CPUs and Intel® FPGAs are already shipping from Intel and Intel Partners. You can find out more about IPUs from Intel and Intel Partners by clicking here. If you’d like a deeper dive into IPUs and their application, Guido Appenzeller, chief technology officer with Intel's Data Platforms Group, has made a 4-minute video giving a concise and easily understood explanation of the IPU concept. You can watch the video here. Notices & Disclaimers Intel technologies may require enabled hardware, software or service activation. No product or component can be absolutely secure. Your costs and results may vary. © Intel Corporation. Intel, the Intel logo, and other Intel marks are trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries. Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.Principal Industry Analyst Patrick Moorhead Explores Infrastructure Processing Units (IPUs) on Forbes.com
Navin Shenoy, Executive VP and GM for the Data Platforms Group at Intel, presented a vision for Infrastructure Processing Units (IPUs) earlier this week in a keynote speech titled "Why You Have Been Thinking About the Future of the Data Center All Wrong" at The Six Five Summit, a strategy event presented by Patrick Moorhead’s company, Moor Insights & Strategy, and Futurum Research. That same day, Moorhead published a detailed article about Shenoy’s keynote and IPUs titled “Intel Announces The 'Infrastructure Processing Unit' At The Six Five Summit 2021” on Forbes.com. In the article, Moorhead wrote: “So, what is an IPU? An IPU is designed to offload the main CPU in the datacenter and edge, which gives more predictable and efficient application performance and enables improved virtualization capabilities that CSPs and carriers are seeking.” A bit later in the article, he wrote: “Micro-services are a way to have your cake and eat it too, as you can run them at the most efficient place but keep a sense of management through orchestration. That orchestration, as I will dig into later, creates challenges that an IPU can help solve.” He discusses some alternatives and then asks: “But what makes Intel’s IPU different?” And he immediately answers his own question: “Intel knows the data center and says it’s the only IPU built in collaboration with hyperscale cloud partners. This would mean that Intel would be able to actively innovate and deliver a product that is already addressing real-world problems. Technically, if you equate its SmartNIC as IPU, Intel is already the IPU volume leader in the IPU market with Xeon-D, FPGA and Ethernet components.” There’s more detail in the Forbes.com article. Click on the link above to read it in full. For more information about Infrastructure Processing Units (IPUs), see “Infrastructure Processing Units (IPUs) intelligently manage and accelerate data center infrastructure” and “Want to know more about how Infrastructure Processing Units (IPUs) are revolutionizing data center architecture? A 4-minute video provides clarity.” Notices & Disclaimers Intel technologies may require enabled hardware, software or service activation. No product or component can be absolutely secure. Your costs and results may vary. © Intel Corporation. Intel, the Intel logo, and other Intel marks are trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries. Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.
