BittWare FPGA Accelerated Compute Node | Dell EMC C4140 Server | 4x BittWare FPGAs up to Stratix 10 | OpenCL | Dense Form Factor| Energy Efficient

The BittWare Accelerated Compute Node consists of up to four BittWare 520C FPGA Accelerator Cards which are mounted in a Dell EMC PowerEdge C4140 1U Server.

The BittWare 520C FPGA Compute Acceleration Card features ground-breaking single precision floating point performance of up to 10 TFLOPS per device, an Intel Stratix 10 FPGA with OpenCL programming support, and 4 banks of DDR4 external memory.

The Dell EMC PowerEdge C4140 1U rackmount  server is powered by dual Intel Skylake processors. This FPGA-optimised 1U server delivers unrivaled performance density and value for a range of compute-intensive applications, including machine learning, The dense form factor provides datacenter scalability. System, Power and Thermal Management make for an energy-efficient solution.

FPGA Development Environment Options

Intel FPGA OpenCL Software Development Kit (SDK)

• Abstraction enables faster and higher-level software development flow
• Emulate OpenCL application code on x86 platforms in seconds
• Push button flow generates FPGA executable, driver and API
• Add optimized HDL IP cores to OpenCL designs as libraries

Hardware Description Language (HDL)

• Traditional VHDL/Verilog tool flow support
• Aimed at hardware-orientated customers
• Hand-code HDL for ultimate performance
• FPGA card designed to support standard Intel IP cores for Stratix 10

Server Specifications

• Processor: Two Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, up to 20 cores per processor
• Memory: 24 x DDR4 DIMM slots, up to 1.5TB maximum memory
• Storage Controllers: IDSDM or Internal M.2 Boot Module (2 x M.2), 120G or 240G (mirrored configuration)
• Dimensions: height: 4.28 cm, width: 43.4 cm, depth: 92.62 cm, weight: 24 kg