[rescue] Re: [geeks] THIS. MAKES. ME. SICK.

[geeks at sunhelp.org]

david at cantrell.org.uk writes:

>It's not strictly true that FPGAs can reconfigure *really fast* either.
>Sure, they can re-configure quickly (well, quickly when you bear in mind
>how complex the job is), but to me, really fast means that it takes maybe
>an order of magnitude or two more time - at the most - than a context
>switch on a traditional processor.

My vision of a FPGA-based supercomputer would be a general purpose
mainframe with [n] (16, 32, more, how much money do you have?) FPGAs
that could be allocated to a single process by ther operating system,
in a batch-mode scenario. The FPGA gets written by that process, and
runs untill it's done, or interupted by quota limits. No context
switches.

-- david fischer -- dave at cca.org -- www.cca.org -- Cthulhu told me to. --