MarkJ, I will take a look at your links below. I will try to feed some of your info and other responses into the fpgaathome.org site.
Terry On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 5:36 AM, TarotApprentice <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Terry Stratoudakis > Subject: [boinc_dev] FPGA@Home (FPGA and BOINC) > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: > <CANK8OaD5yJrRn0C=9OKJ5X3EnJuYn2UKH_iku_jUvj4DVS=+7...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > 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 _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
