you might want to look at the work on FPGA resources; again it should just be a resource available by a scheduler. Key thing is probably just to keep the docs generic
https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r3.1.0/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-site/UsingFPGA.html I don't know where you get those FPGAs to play with; the Azure ML stuff looks like the kind of thing to think about though: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/machine-learning/service/concept-accelerate-with-fpgas >