Further thoughts on FPGA co-processing and performance

Posted by Larry Neumann on Aug 29, 2008

I’d like to go one layer down on a point that was introduced in the last post and why you can’t lump all non-software approaches into one hardware bucket. Software suffers in terms of performance in two fundamental ways, heavy CPU loading when tasks are complex, and kernel to application space context switching when iteration counts are high (ie. millions of anything per second). Let’s go...
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Tagged with co-processing, context switching, FPGA, Intel, low-latency

Intel promoting on-board FPGAs to address low-latency financial market

Posted by Larry Neumann on Aug 27, 2008

Rik Turner of CBR recently wrote an interesting story about Intel trying to break into the low-latency financial services space by courting FPGA chip manufacturers and solution providers leveraging FPGAs to partner with Intel as they launch their Nehalem technology, faster front-side bus and FPGA co-processing capabilities. Of course the idea of hosting FPGA co-processing is not new, AMD has been...
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Tagged with algorithmic, AMD, co-processing, FPGA, Intel, low-latency