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9 years ago

FPGA/CPU acceleration: Are companies using it?

Hi all, There has been a lot of buzz about FPGAs to be used as accelerators for data centers (among others on Intel's acquisition of Altera). Which made me wonder: Are there any companies out t...
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9 years ago

There are a lot of choices available. FPGA is only one of them. It totally depends on what calculations are being done. Some are fastest with FPGAs, others with GPUs and some with DSP, or large numbers of traditional processors connected together.