Possibly in the summer, I'm going to invest in some really big FPGA to help with this GPU work. Give or take, I'm looking to spend about USD 10000 to 15000 for the FPGA board and an "adequate" Linux PC to plug it into as a host (assuming the FPGA board has PCIe). I might need to also splurge for a Windows PC to run the FPGA synthesis tools.
Note: I'd benefit from a reasonably fast Windows PC for synthesis, but otherwise, I don't need to spend a lot on fast CPUs, which is why the Linux host can be fairly low-end. I have access to more than enough fast compute power from existing facilities. Any suggestions? BTW, if we're comparing Virtex to Spartan, I need lots of SRAMs and multipliers, but I don't yet know the relative proportion of random logic. IIRC, Virtex has more random logic, while Spartan has more RAMs and DSP blocks. So if we can narrow down the choices a bit, then I can pick the right one after I have enough logic to synthesize something. Right now, I have tentatively 5 masters students wanting to work on OpenShader over the summer. -- Timothy Normand Miller, PhD Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Binghamton University http://www.cs.binghamton.edu/~millerti/ Open Graphics Project
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