Posts by Beercandyman

Intel reveals its FrankenChip ARM killer: one FPGA and one Xeon IN ONE SOCKET

Re: What We Really Need

They can also be configured directly over PCIe or ethernet. We call it CvP configuration via protocol.

Re: Intel catches up with 2006

In 06 we just brought up the system. The first part could talk to the Opterons sockets attached memory (128 bit wide). I also go the FPGA to reconfigure without having to reboot the machine (look for patent 8,145,894). The second generation we used the whole keepout of the Opteron fan and had 6 attached memories. I work with the Altera OpenCL group and we configure over PCIe directly into the FPGA. If you knew about FPGA and reconfigurable computing history you'd know what's going on now. Altera has OpenCL which works great. I use it everyday. The New part is the gen 10 stuff from Altera now supports hardened floating point. The parts are huge too. Compared to the time frame you are talking about the devices are 50 to 100 times better (area * frequency improvement). FPGAs clearly beat CPUs on most tasks and with hardened float point I don't think GPUs have a chance. I personally designed the DRC module and I brought it up too so I know what I'm talking about.