FPGA as service in public Cloud: Why and how

Abstract

IBM is the leader of Accelerator cloud technology innovation in industry. IBM Supervessel Cloud is the first cloud providing FPGA accelerator service and FPGA DevOps service to developers. In this talk, Yonghua Lin, Supervessel Cloud leader will share her view on why FPGA service in cloud is important, and how FPGA service could accelerate the Cognitive Computing in Cloud. Meanwhile, Yonghua will introduce the key technologies supporting FPGA service in cloud. Supervessel Cloud has launched FPGA as service for more than 18 months. The FPGA service has been used by developers from different countries. In this talk, Yonghua will also share the gap learned from all these users, and her vision for future.