On Fri, 23 Dec 2011 02:42:35 AM Prentice Bisbal wrote: > At SC11, it was clear that everyone was looking for ways around the > power wall. I saw 5 or 6 different booths touting the use of FPGAs > for improved performance/efficiency. I don't remember there being > a single FPGA booth in the past.
I couldn't be at SC'11 due to family health issues, but I'm sure I remember a number of FPGA booths at previous SC's. I remember one at SC'07 or so that had FPGA's that would go into an AMD Opteron CPU socket for instance. Ah yes, I even took a photo of it (the FPGA in the socket, not the booth I'm afraid) at SC'07: http://www.flickr.com/photos/chrissamuel/2267611323/in/set-72157603919719911 Looks like an Altera FPGA. cheers! Chris -- Christopher Samuel - Senior Systems Administrator VLSCI - Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative Email: [email protected] Phone: +61 (0)3 903 55545 http://www.vlsci.unimelb.edu.au/ _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
