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See my other posts on this page. You want FPGA's with cheap SERDES links that support PCIe Gen 2 at 5 Ghz. The best fit is Lattice ECP5-5G but that's $5 per lin
by morphle 7y ago
See my other posts on this page.
You want FPGA's with cheap SERDES links that support PCIe Gen 2 at 5 Ghz. The best fit is Lattice ECP5-5G but that's $5 per link. The MPF300 is $10 per 12,5 Gbps link on the discounted developmentboard (with desoldering). A retail priced Cyclone 10CX105 also $10 per link with a smaller 10CX105 at $14.6. But very potent FPGAs that can be a small GPU in itself.
I now plan a crowdfunding for our own FPGA in an ASIC, that would bring $0.25 with a hundred links. This HN pages shows me there will be enough buyers for a $300 364 core RPI4 compatible cluster (100 BCM2711 chips connected to 1 FPGA plus 100GB DDR4) but without the RPi4 boards.
Instead of attaching RPi4 or BCM2711, you could have 100 SATA, SSD, 30 HDMI, 10G or a rack full of PCIe servers connected to this interconnect FPGA.
You are welcome to help realise the project or the crowdfunding.
- anderspitman 7y agoI have no idea what I'd use this for but it sounds awesome.
- morphle 7y agoParticle systems [1]. AR. VR [2][3][4][5]. Image processing, neural nets. But not in programming languages like C, Java or Linux. Only in massively parallel message passing languages[4]. I suggest a Smalltalk message passing scalable cluster VM like the RoarVM [6][7][]8]. [1] Shadama 3D. Yoshiki Oshima. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rka3w90Odo8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rka3w90Odo8 [2] OpenCobalt Alpha. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s9ldlqhVkM&t=13s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s9ldlqhVkM&t=13s [4] OpenCroquet Alan Kay Turing lecture. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXC19T5sJ1U?t=3581 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXC19T5sJ1U?t=3581 [5] OpenCroquet Alan Kay et al. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZO7av2ZFB8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZO7av2ZFB8 [6] RoarVM paper. David Ungar et al. https://stefan-marr.de/renaissance/ungar-adams-2009-hosting-an-object-heap-on-manycore-hardware-an-exploration.pdf https://stefan-marr.de/renaissance/ungar-adams-2009-hosting-... [7] RoarVM Demo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pmVAtk612M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pmVAtk612M [8] RoarVM Demo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeDFcC6ps88 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeDFcC6ps88
- anderspitman 7y agoI said what I'd use it for ;)