Marketing description

The ThinkSystem Xilinx Alveo U25 25GbE SFP28 2-Port PCIe FPGA Adapter is an advanced programmable network adapter enabling adjusted hardware acceleration and offload. The U25 programming model supports both high-level network programming abstractions such as HLS and P4, as well compute acceleration frameworks such as Vitis to enable both Xilinx and third-party accelerated applications.

Key selling points

• A powerful SmartNIC
• A programmable fabric
• A platform for hardware accelerated clouds

Product features

• A powerful SmartNIC
  The U25 delivers ultra-high throughput, small packet performance and low-latency. The host interface supports standard NIC drivers as well as Onload kernel bypass to provide both TCP and packet-based APIs for network application acceleration. IEEE1588v2 precision timing protocol (PTP) is provided for applications that require synchronized time stamping of packets with single-digit nanosecond accuracy.
• A programmable fabric
  The U25 SmartNIC contains a programmable FPGA handling all network flows. Each flow can be individually delivered to the host and/or streamed in hardware through bump-in-the-wire network acceleration functions and/or compute acceleration kernels for application processing within the FPGA.
• A platform for hardware accelerated clouds
  Cloud service providers are deploying SmartNIC fabrics to achieve virtual switching and micro-segmentation of services that scale linearly with CPU cores and network links.