I had discussed this with some Deep Learning experts at the local University and they believed that FPGAs won't be as powerful as people seem to think since the

I had discussed this with some Deep Learning experts at the local University and they believed that FPGAs won't be as powerful as people seem to think since the many-many connections between blocks will not be up to the task. In any event, Nerabus is a company (by the same guys as CodeThink) which is interested in running FPGA in the cloud: http://nerabus.com http://nerabus.com I'm not sure if they got off the ground with the idea or if they were too early or what.