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It is certainly a big deal for HFT. Pulling the Solarflare networking technology into a Xilinx FPGA should cut a significant amount of latency for FPGA-based tr
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It is certainly a big deal for HFT. Pulling the Solarflare networking technology into a Xilinx FPGA should cut a significant amount of latency for FPGA-based trading systems. Having a Solarflare IP core option should benefit other high-performance networking applications outside of HFT as well. Seems like a smart acquisition for Xilinx.
- willglynn 7y agoIf you want an FPGA tied to a SolarFlare NIC, that's been available for years as a finished product under the name "Application Onload Engine". News article: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02/08/solarflare_application_onload_engine/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02/08/solarflare_applicat... Whitepapers: * https://solarflare.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/SF-114649-CD-LATEST_Solarflare_AOE_SFA7942Q_Product_Brief.pdf https://solarflare.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/SF-114649-... * https://solarflare.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/SF-114903-CD-LATEST-Solarflare_Application_Nanosecond_TCP_Send_Paper.pdf https://solarflare.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/SF-114903-...
- 1e-9 7y agoYes, but the Solarflare ApplicationOnload Engine has several issues (e.g. limited Altera FPGA, inflexible architecture, logic on a separate ASIC that must communicate with the FPGA, and still uses a host CPU for the networking stack), which should be resolved by fully integrating with the Xilinx Ultrascale+ technology and putting all networking and decision logic on one chip. The result should be a much faster, much more flexible, and much more powerful solution.