Honored ContributorI'm looking to see how many Altera FPGA's at most can be packed into a rackmount chassis. The application is short read DNA sequence alignment. I have code running on a single FPGA on a DE2-70 board.
FPGA interconnection topology is not too important as my design is highly adaptable. Can anyone recommend a product? Ideally we would like something off the shelf rather than custom made.
Honored ContributorHi,
there are a few ways to skin that particular cat. Although I suspect none is very good for your purposes. :) There are a few standards for which FGPA cards are available. A couple of examples. ATCA/µTCA: http://www.mc.com/products/boards/ensemble_mxi205_xilinx.aspx VME: http://www.acttechnico.com/fpga_computeplatforms.html VME: http://www.bittware.com/products/hardware/prod_desc.cfm?prodshrtname=gtv6 (Stratix) There are also a number of PCIe development boards that you could fit into rackmount servers. SGI was offering RASC modules for their computers. If you have to go custom, VME is problably the cheapest option if you can live with the low bandwidth.Honored ContributorHonored ContributorLook at:
http://www.copacobana.org/gallery.html KestHonored ContributorHello AdamHall, You can also look at http://www.nallatech.com/ which offers variety of COTS FPGA boards.
