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FPGAs have finally become used in some compute clouds. Specifically, Microsoft published some work in this space called Catapult: ftp://ftp.cs.utexas.edu/pub/db
by sargun 12y ago
FPGAs have finally become used in some compute clouds. Specifically, Microsoft published some work in this space called Catapult: ftp://ftp.cs.utexas.edu/pub/dburger/papers/ISCA14-Catapult.pdf
I predict that we'll see FPGAs become in use more often, but there are certain hurdles in both the operational, and programmability model that need to first be solved.
Disclaimer: I used to work for MSFT.
- agumonkey 12y agoI second that, the parallella board comes with a Zinq 6000 IIRC, it's amazing to me that you can get a nice FPGA at such low price.
- zvrba 12y agoRelated: eMIPS from Microsoft; a CPU supporting dynamic (run-time) definition of instructions. Runs on a FPGA. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/emips/default.aspx http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/emips/default.a...