Hyper-fast coprocessor plugs into Opteron socket

This is not a hoax. A Silicon Valley company has started shipping an FPGA-based coprocessor designed to plug right into an open "socket 940" location on a standard multiprocessor AMD Opteron motherboard running Linux.
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The unit connects an FPGA (field-programmable gate array) directly to the main system HyperTransport processor bus, for claimed processor bandwidth of 3.2Gbps -- a big jump compared to PCI, Ethernet, and other common co-processor system interfaces, not to mention a big drop in latency.
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Depending on the application, FPGAs can execute routines 10-20 times faster than software running on a general-purpose processor.
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The RPU110 is shipping in quantity now, priced at $19,000 in quantities of 1-4, according to the company. It is supplied with Linux drivers.

Two-way development systems based on qualified Tyan motherboards start at $20,500, and are optionally available with tools such as Impulse's CoDeveloper FPGA compiler for Xilinx.
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7630000844.html

( NagyZ v | 2007. 07. 15., v – 11:30 )

az az igazsag, hogy az FPGA -k erdekes allatok, jomagam is programozok ilyet :)