Accelerator innovation—increasing power efficiency and performance. Growing demand for performance has led to the development of high-bandwidth and low-latency accelerators.
Intel® QuickAssist Technology supports these industry solutions, including:
- Accelerated performance for demanding applications with Front Side Bus attached Field Programmable Gate Array (FSB-FPGA) hardware modules.
- Agility to migrate from one technology to another with minimum impact to applications with Intel QuickAssist Technology Accelerator Abstraction Layer (AAL).
- Support for small form factor accelerators with emerging technology codenamed "Tolapai" that combines numerous powerful enabling technology on a single chip.
- Broad sweeping accelerator improvements with protocol and speed improvements to PCI Express* 2.0 initially proposed by Intel and IBM (called Geneseo*). PCI Express* 3.0 is expected to be the PCI-SIG's response to this proposal and will improve accelerator efficiency and double delivered bandwidth to 8GT/s.
Intel® QuickAssist Technology Community
The Intel® QuickAssist Technology Community is a virtual organization of ISVs, IHVs, embedded OEMs, and developers who are committed to simplifying accelerator use on Intel® architecture platforms. Members have access to collateral, technical workgroup collaboration, a vendor directory and product roadmap information, Intel's programming guide, reference code, compilers, libraries, tools, co-marketing collaboration and other resources that can help facilitate faster implementation of acceleration solutions on Intel architecture platforms.
The Intel® QuickAssist Technology Community promotes an environment for collaboration and match-making to encourage the development of innovative accelerator solutions. It is a one-stop learning and resource center encompassing the collection of technologies that make up the Intel® QuickAssist Technology initiative.
Intel® QuickAssist Technology Solutions
Intel QuickAssist Technology is a comprehensive initiative that consists of a family of interrelated Intel and industry standard technologies that enable optimized use and deployment of accelerators on Intel® platforms.
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Developing innovation standards
We're always looking for ways to make the development process easier for developers while also enabling better end-products. Intel QuickAssist Technology AAL achieves both by promoting innovation in Front Side Bus (FSB) accelerators equating to:
- Decreased development time. Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) no longer need to develop proprietary acceleration layers for each new device.
- Increased business flexibility. End-users can choose devices and solutions that fit their changing business requirements without being tied to a particular accelerator.
- Future ready. AAL is multi-core safe and built to last through future generations of multi-core processor designs.
Whitepaper
- Learn more about Intel QuickAssist Technology AAL (PDF 1.10MB)
Expanding solutions for small form factor accelerators
Tolapai combined with Intel® QuickAssist Technology combines an Intel® architecture core, memory controller, and I/O controller into a single chip optimized for small form factor accelerators. This solution will support a broad range of applications including communications and security processing while remaining cost-effective and power-efficient.
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Putting accelerators to work (5:20)
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Packet Processing with Intel® Multi-Core Processors (PDF 623KB)
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