I had some initial discussions with Adapteva and ClearSpeed.
 
The Clearspeed device is a maths co-processor on a PCIe board (e710) or a HP 
blade server board (e720). They offered to provide a loan pre-production board 
for software development. Unfortunately they had a pretty hefty price tag and 
didn't seem too keen on supplying a board at a discount so I never got one. I 
pointed out we'd need one to support the software and update it so a loan one 
wasn't the best option. See http://www.clearspeed.com/ for details.
 
Adapteva have a 16 CPU on a chip available. It attaches to an Altera Stratix 
board and can be connected via USB (and possibly LAN not too sure though). Its 
known as the  Epiphany Multi-core Evaluation Kit. They were working on a lower 
cost version with their newer 64 CPU on a chip. It was due Q1 2012, which they 
have well and truely missed but may get something out by the end of this year. 
They wanted a 5 digit amout for their  evaluation kit which includes a software 
development kit (based on GCC 4.7.0 I believe). See http://www.adapteva.com/ 
for details.
 
There is also a DRC Accelium Coprocessor available. I haven't investigated 
pricing on it but suspect it will also come with a 5 digit price tag. It also 
comes with a SDK which I believe is based upon GCC similar to the Altera. Its 
available as a PCIe card or as a chip that can be plugged into an AMD Opteron 
socket. See http://www.drccomputer.com/ for details.

There are other around but they don't appear to be as well developed at this 
stage.

I expect for BOINC to be able to schedule tasks for these/use them as a 
co-processor then it will need to have some API hooks to detect if its got one 
or more and the co-processor logic will need a lot more work. Not too sure 
which of these are going to support OpenCL though, maybe all of them in the 
long run. All seem to support C/C++ as a initial language offering.

Hope this is some use to the community. I will make some inquiries into the DRC 
Accelium and see how much they want for their PCIe boards and what they come 
with (software wise).

Cheers,
MarkJ
 
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Hi all,
I saw some old threads on this topic.  I took it upon myself to create
this blog to help start up this effort.  Feedback, collaborators,
comments, etc. are all welcome!

http://www.fpgaathome.org/

Terry 
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