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You can spin up an FPGA-accelerated EC2 instance right now. There are a few highly specialised applications where every scrap of performance matters, but for th
by jdietrich 8y ago
You can spin up an FPGA-accelerated EC2 instance right now. There are a few highly specialised applications where every scrap of performance matters, but for the most part the software development costs are prohibitive compared to just spinning up more CPU or GPU instances.
https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/f1/ https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/f1/
- snaky 8y agoThere are some interesting ideas about programmability, like automagically offloading some computation parts to FPGA. http://conal.net/blog/posts/haskell-to-hardware-via-cccs http://conal.net/blog/posts/haskell-to-hardware-via-cccs http://conal.net/blog/posts/circuits-as-a-bicartesian-closed-category http://conal.net/blog/posts/circuits-as-a-bicartesian-closed... https://github.com/conal/lambda-ccc/blob/master/doc/notes.md https://github.com/conal/lambda-ccc/blob/master/doc/notes.md
- Filligree 8y agoThe software needed to drive them needs to become much better (documented, ergonomics, everything) before that will be a realistic option.