[geeks] SGI RASC - an interesting idea?

[Mark]

http://www.sgi.com/products/rasc/

Reconfigurable Application Specific Computing. Basically you stack a  
server with boards with lots of RAM and pairs of FPGAs. You load the  
FPGAs with a specific gate set, use the hardware to process that job,  
then reprogram the FPGAs wit ha different gate set and process a  
different job. It's half way between application-specific hardware,  
and application software really. I thought the idea of software at  
hardware level was pretty neat - it certainly has the potential to be  
very fast.

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