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AcceleratorForPOWEREric Deng,VP

Semptian,China

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Who is Semptian

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was founded in 2003, a leading solution and serviceprovider in big data acquisition and analyzing in China.

HQ in Shenzhen, China.

Go to public in 2014 (NEEQ: 831196)

SemptianOverview

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Our Vision

Data creates value, changes work, lifestyle, study and entertainment. Data makes life easier, quicker and happier.

60+

260

$40M

80%

260+ employees50% engineers30% salesR&D expense 15%+

2015 Growth

Revenue in 2015

60+ patents10+ growth per year

Our Goal

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To provide board accelerator for POWER with FPGA-basedheterogeneous computing

Memory

PowerProcessor UltraScaleFPGA

PCIe/CAPI

Massivelyparallelacceleratorü ComparedwithCPU,Performanceper

Wattincreasedby22to25timesü ComparedwithCPU，Latencyreduce

to 1/50ü HighIOintegration(PCIe,DDR4,etc.)

* FromtheHotCloud 2013document“Achieving10Gbpsline-ratekey-valuestoreswithFPGAs”

SemptianNSAAccelerator

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Technical Stack

POWER Server

OS

APPs

Service

FPGA

NSA

IPXilinx, 3rd party

IPSemptian

We’re here

MakePOWERmorePowerful-CAPIFPGA

6

IBMSuppliedPOWERServiceLayer

CustomerAccelerator

Function(AFU)

FPGACAPI

NSA

CAPIadvantages

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lEasier,MoreNaturalProgrammingModel–Traditionalthreadlevelprogramming–LonglatencyofI/Otypicallyrequiresrestructuringofapplication

lEnablesApplicationsNotPossibleonI/O–Pointerchasing,etc…

lVirtualAddressing &DataCaching–SharedMemory–Lowerlatencyforhighlyreferenceddata

NSAAcceleratorFeatures

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HighPerformanceLowPower

SDA

HardwareLooseCoupling

UpgradeOnline

3rd PartyIPProtection

HighPerformance&LowPower

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20

40

60

80

100

FPGA CPU

30

95

Power

Power(W)

0

2

4

6

8

10

HadoopEC GZIP ImageResizing

Performance

CPU FPGA

CPU FPGA Speedup

HadoopEC 400MB/s 3GB/s 7.5x

GZIP 300MB/s 3GB/s 10x

ImageResizing 7sec/1kpcs 0.69sec/1kpcs 10x

HardwareLooseCoupling

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01Additional rackspace: NO

02PCIe 3.0in normal serverchassis

03Additional cooling: NO

04Externalpowersupply: NO

SoftwareDefinedAccelerator

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LibrariesCompiler Debugger Profiler

OpenCL,C,C++Code

CAPI/PCIe

SoftwareengineercandevelopFPGA

AccelerationsUpgradeOnline

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SAFEimage

AFUimage

Update online

Power8 Processor NSA FPGA Accelerator Flash

Configuration

Updatefrom theHostCPU,noneedtheJTAGCableYoucanchangetheAFUsasyouneedEventheupdatefailed,FPGAcanloadSafeimage

3rd Party IP Protection

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UniqueID

Initial Verification

FPGA Security Chip

• The dedicated security chip contains an unique ID for every board.• Verification can be executed on initialization to enableworkingonly on

the licensed board.

ID-bindedImage

End-to-End delivery for you

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Cards

Chassis

Boxes

Over 12 years experience in COTS and customized products

End-to-End delivery for you

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• High efficiency and resilience supply• 10K+ cards and appliances per year

ErasureCodeforHadoopHDFS

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ReplicationStrategy:300%StoragecapacityrequiredPower,cooling, costchallenge

RSCode(10,4)

Hadoop3.0

ErasureCodeRS(10,4):• 140%Storagecapacityrequired: 50% cost

reduction• Power,cooling improved• DatareliabilityimprovedCodingperformancechallenges• Java:~8MB/s/core• optimizedassemblecode~100MB/s/core

ErasureCodeforHDFS

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IBM Power 822L withSemptian NSA

Performance– 7X~10Xperformanceimprove: speedupto3GB/s– CPU offloading: equivalentto20~30CPUcores

capability– CAPIinterfaceenableeasyprogramandlowlatency

Scalability– Using1ormorePCIe/CAPIslots

Testedonplatform:– IBMPower8server822L– RedPower serverfromZoomTech

RedPower withSemptian NSA

ImageResizing

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Rawimage

resizing1

resizing2

resizing3

Commonapplicationto adapt to various terminals

ImageResizing

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§ Advantage:• Noextramaintainingcost.• 3~10.7Xprocessingspeed(1000

imagesprocesstimeis0.65Svs.7.0SbydualE5-2630）

• Sameworkflowprocess• ReleaseCPUpower

§ Cost:• OneNSA-120 card• Immigrationcost(~0)——from

currentImageMagick solutiontoCIPsolution (100%compatibletoImageMagick)

• HW: NSA-120• SW: CIP (Compatible to ImageMagick

and GraphicsMagick)

device Watt Speed Qty USD/year

DualXEON E5-2630Server 500 1 10.7 5000

Server +NSA 500+15 10.7 1 482

Severalcyclestodecodeonepixel

CPU Onecycledecodes64pixels

NSASaveEnergy

>10x

Notes:u Assume electricity cost: $0.1068/kwh, 24x7 operation

10.7xSpeedup：1000 imagesprocesstimeis0.65Svs.7.0SbydualE5-2630

u Data based on Energy Information Administration US, accesstime June 18, 2014.

Contact

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Our booth:#1013

SemptianTechnologies Co.,Ltd

Website：http://www.semptian.com

E-mail： marketing@semptian.com

Tel： 0086-0755-86656060Fax： 0086-0755-86656090

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www.semptian.com

Thank You!