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This may be huge. People will use the FPGA as they use the GPU now, but FPGA has the potential to greatly reduce the programming complexity associated with GPUs
by ddalex 12y ago
This may be huge. People will use the FPGA as they use the GPU now, but FPGA has the potential to greatly reduce the programming complexity associated with GPUs.
In the end, the success will boil down to how easy the development is, and how well designed the libraries will be - if the framwork will be capable to automatically reconfigure the hardware to offload CPU-intensive tasks, this has high tech potential for widespread adoption, not just datacenter-wise.
- nomnombunty 12y agoCan you elaborate on how FPGA has the potential to reduce programming complexity associated with GPUs? I personally think it is harder to program with Verilog than to program using CUDA.
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- hderms 12y agoWell it's probably easier to program CUDA for embarassingly parallel tasks, or other tasks well-suited to CUDA, but FPGAs might make certain tasks easier because of their flexibility.