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Amazon EC2 F1 Instances: Run Custom FPGAs in the AWS Cloud
- sciurus 10y agoDiscussion when they were announced: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13072432 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13072432
- vvanders 10y agoOne thing that's really missing from that landing page is any sort of meaningful FPGA specs(LUTs, DSP slices, block RAM, etc). Still pretty cool to see FPGAs now showing up in cloud managed hardware.
- someguy12 10y agoThey mention that the F1 instance is using Xilinx's UltraScale+ FPGAs and that they have approx. 6800 DSP slices. You can see that they must be targeting the VU9P from the product selection guide (pdf) here: http://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/selection-guides/ultrascale-plus-fpga-product-selection-guide.pdf#VUSP http://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/selection-guides... From the guide: VU9P: 6840 DSP slices, 2.3M flip-flops, 1.1M LUTs 36Mb distributed RAM 76Mb block RAM 270Mb ultra RAM Additional documentation is linked on the last page of the selector guide. Note that these specs are per FPGA. An F1 instance comes with up to 8 of these devices.
- mathnode 10y agoIf I knew anything about VHDL, I would create a cloud Amiga!