Maximizing Hardware Efficiency: How Speedata Solves the Firmware Challenge with a Promise-based Async Framework

The golden rule of high-performance hardware is that the firmware’s #1 job is to keep the hardware accelerators busy. In the world of big data analytics, every single cycle that an engine sits idle is wasted throughput. At Speedata, we developed the C200 Analytics Processing Unit (APU), a custom accelerator card designed from the ground up to accelerate big data analytics workloads by up to 100x.