Alibaba’s datacenter uses Xilinx FPGAs with OpenCL

November 30, 2018 opencl, fpga Xilinx, Inc.

Alibaba’s datacenter uses Xilinx FPGAs to accelerate billions of transactions for shoppers and Microsoft, in a recent announcement, said it would deploy Xilinx in its datacenter as well. This is good news for OpenCL, as Xilinx FPGA acceleration includes support for high-level programming languages and tools, including C, C++, and OpenCL.