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18 years ago

Altera FPGAs in High Performance Computing(HPC) Applications

I am trying to better understand the different methodologies on using Altera FPGAs as a coprocessor in HPC applications. Believe there there are four known methodologies. Familair with the firs...
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SRC Computers is the company I've heard of for# 4. They were started by Seymour Cray and do a number of different accelerator-type products. Also be sure to investigate the development side, i.e. hardware/software interaction. If you're ready to write HDL, it's usually not a big deal, but a lot of users investigating this area only write C for processors and want to "push a button" to create hardware from their C.

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