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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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18 years ago

Yes, I did look into Xtremedata products for# 1 and# 2. And for# 3 found GiDEL's solutions suitable www.gidel.com. They have have a tool that can map DSP Builder model based designs to Altera FPGA via PCI express interface(Hardware In the Loop Methodology).

BTW: I am interested in seeing data throughput MB/s for two of Xtremedata's products

1. 2S180 FPGA connected via Intel FSB to a Xeon processor(Xtremedata)

FSB interface supports 1066MHz and 64 bits. FPGA I/O connected via FSB might have some speed limitations. What I am looking for the real data throughput that was achieved b/w a 2S180 and a Xeon processor(MB/s)?

2. 2S180 FPGA connected via AMD HyperTransport to an Opteron Processor

HyperTransport standard supports 3.2GB/sec(1.6 each way). Again the data I am looking for is the actual throughput between a 2S180 and an Opteron processor.

Any thoughts on this?

Thanks!