Posts Tagged ‘FPGA’
Further thoughts on TornadoVM
TornadoVM was definitely the coolest thing I learned about at QCon London last week, which is why I wrote up the presentation on InfoQ. It seems that people on the Orange web site are also interested in the intersection of Java, GPUs and FPGA, as the piece was #1 there last night as I went […]
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Tags: compiler, FPGA, Go, golang, GPU, java, JIT, TornadoVM, VM
Dr Juan Fumero presented at QCon London on TornadoVM, a plug-in to OpenJDK and GraalVM that runs Java on heterogeneous hardware including Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) and Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). Demos during the presentation showed code being speeded up by hundreds of times when running on a GPU vs a CPU. Continue reading the full […]
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Tags: FPGA, GPU, java
Andrew “bunnie” Huang recently presented at the 36th Chaos Communication Congress (36C3) on ‘Open Source is Insufficient to Solve Trust Problems in Hardware‘ with an accompanying blog post ‘Can We Build Trustable Hardware?‘. His central point is that Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) is very different for hardware versus software, and so open source is less helpful in mitigating […]
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Tags: FPGA, hardware, open source, trust
Amongst the flurry of announcements at re:invent 2016 was the launch of a developer preview for a new F1 instance type. The F1 comes with one to eight high end Xilinx Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) to provide programmable hardware to complement the Intel E5 2686 v4 processors that come with up to 976 GiB […]
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Tags: aws, cloud, FPGA
Rising from the ashes of GigaOm the tribal gathering of cloud elders that is Structure has returned, and got off to a strong start with Battery Venture’s Adrian Cockcroft presenting on the State of the Cloud and Container Ecosystems. Cockcroft paid particular attention to the impact of containers, which wasn’t even a major discussion topic at […]
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Tags: cancer, cloud, Cockcroft, conference, FPGA, healtcare, iaas, Intel, saas, Structure
FPGA
TL;DR Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have been around for decades, but they’ve become a hot topic again. Intel recently announced Xeon chips with FPGAs added on, Microsoft are using FPGAs to speed up search on Bing, and there are Kickstarter projects such as miniSpartan6+ trying to bring FPGA the ease of use and mass […]
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Tags: FPGA, HDL, Nand2tetris, programming, skills, speed, Verilog, VHDL
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