Using FPGA superpowers to speed up cloud workloads with #inaccel
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There is nothing new under the Sun, the saying goes, and that also holds true for Field Programmable Gate Arrays. FPGAs though are back with a rage, with major cloud vendors offering FPGA-as-a-service and chip manufacturers renewing their interest in the space. Among other facts, Intel acquired Altera for $16B and is now shipping the new Intel Xeon CPUs with an integrated FPGA.At the same time, applications like data analytics, machine learning, and genomics are extremely computationally intensive and require a large amount of processing power -let alone manpower- to manage the clusters. To face this challenge, warehouse data centers and cloud providers have recently started to adopt the use of hardware accelerators.Hardware accelerators (e.g. FPGAs) can speed up the application (...)
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