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Electronics => Microcontrollers => Topic started by: sleemanj on December 01, 2016, 04:03:38 am
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https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/developer-preview-ec2-instances-f1-with-programmable-hardware/
Interesting.
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OVH offers altera:
https://www.runabove.com/FPGAaaS.xml (https://www.runabove.com/FPGAaaS.xml)
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And they are big ones too... the FPGAs have 6,000+ DSP blocks, and they offer option to have multiple FPGAs in the same instance.
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They seem to fall out of the range of their free tools :(
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Wow, 1150k LE is a lot!
One of this FPGAs costs about 10000€!
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Neat!
I would be interested in any feedback about this kind of services.
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Wow, I could imagine this having some huge potential for research companies and big number crunchers.
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Errr, what would you use that for? - clearly not for driving some local bus at high speed...
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Errr, what would you use that for?
Problem-specific compute acceleration.
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Errr, what would you use that for? - clearly not for driving some local bus at high speed...
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I was thinking that. You need to do very 'deep' processing of the limited data set.
Assuming you have 1GB/s of network bandwidth to get data in or out of the system. The large instances you have around 50,000 DSP blocks (able to run at 250MHz+?) - that gives tens of thousands of DSP operations per byte of data...
What you would use that ratio of bandwidth to compute for? No idea! (but then I lack vision :D )
I'm sure the Square Kilometer Array could give me a few hints...