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I'm curious what workloads you would want to see run on the FPGAs that would justify a more open platform? As it is, I think Amazon's approach for AMI Reserved

by moflome 10y ago

I'm curious what workloads you would want to see run on the FPGAs that would justify a more open platform? As it is, I think Amazon's approach for AMI Reserved Instance Marketplace [0] sales makes sense for the AFI packages -- I would think it would make sense for a vendor to develop, debug & maintain the accelerators I'm aware of. [0] https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/f1/ https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/f1/

phamilton 10y ago
I've used FPGAs for image processing. While OpenCL does accelerate this, at the end of the day it's still largely General Purpose Computation on a GPU. I'd love to be able to install a suite of Special Purpose cores for image manipulation, for example. Especially one that works with imagemagick, so that all the various libs compiled against it would just work.