Re: DRC has announced its newest FPGA that drops into AMD's Socket 940

Jan Panteltje wrote:
> http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=1920
>
> So... I do see a possibility here.

Definitely cool.

But only where an FPGA is truly handy. E.g. grid work.

I think servers [e.g. SSL work] is best served with two processors than
one and the FPGA.

8x200Mhz only provides 400MB/sec traffic to the CPU so really this is
useful for tasks which either totally reside on the FPGA side of the
board or have really high latency (e.g. PK work).

The FPGA would have to beat ~3500 RSA-1024/sec before it would be worth
more than an Opteron 275 (even more for the 285s) in the same socket.
I'd see use for this in animation work though where an FPGA can
raytrace a scene much faster than a CPU can and the work is high
latency.

Still cool though. Good to see people using the 940 socket for more
than just Opterons :-)

Tom
Received on Mon May 1 02:05:48 2006