Five top comments in and you're the first to ask the this question. Given how exotic this piece of silicon is I'd love to know too. This is the Intel webpage I

Five top comments in and you're the first to ask the this question. Given how exotic this piece of silicon is I'd love to know too. This is the Intel webpage I found[0]. From there there's a link to an Altera page[1]. This is the marketing blurb that Anandtech got some of there info from[2]. A number of obvious interesting applications jump out at me: crypto acceleration for mining, machine learning acceleration, JIT acceleration for interpreted languages… How doable is all this? Would you have to roll your own code or are there libraries? Wrt interpreted languages, I use Ruby fairly often and now that there's MRuby[3] I wonder if Ruby could be made run blazingly fast on something like this Xeon+FPGA thing? Oh to have a spare $€£￥ to get me one of these. [0] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/servers/accelerators/accelerators.html https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/servers/accelerators... [1] https://www.altera.com/solutions/acceleration-hub/acceleration-stack.html?_ga=2.21313979.1890327809.1526633423-1729697991.1521483926 https://www.altera.com/solutions/acceleration-hub/accelerati... [2] https://itpeernetwork.intel.com/intel-processors-fpga-better-together/ https://itpeernetwork.intel.com/intel-processors-fpga-better... [3] https://github.com/mruby/mruby https://github.com/mruby/mruby