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What practical applications does this have? Could we see something like Python's Theano? The latter is a library which is capable of turning symbolic representa
by bayesianhorse 13y ago
What practical applications does this have? Could we see something like Python's Theano? The latter is a library which is capable of turning symbolic representations of linear algebra into parallelized and optimized code for the CPU or GPU.
I think that these FPGAs, when put into consumer computers, will be more like "data centers on a chip" rather than processing cores. In a simple example they could run map/reduce type operations, colocating storage and computing silicon.
- zhemao 13y agoThat's not really what FPGAs are good for. Unless you are using a really high-end FPGA (read: >$10,000/unit), the raw compute power is not going to beat a decent gaming GPU. The benefit of FPGAs is that you get very precise timing control, which makes then very good for software-defined IO and other latency-sensitive hard real-time applications.