Re:Baidu Takes FPGA Approach to Accelerating SQL at Scale
by adwn on Thursday August 25, 2016 @06:37AM
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What are you talking about?
> HFT firms have been banging on the drum of making FPGA's infinity programmable for a decade
That's strange, because FPGAs have been infinitely reprogrammable for longer than that.
> lots of commercial FPGA's can be re-flashed now
That's even stranger, because the vast majority of commercial FPGAs are not flash-based, but SRAM-based and can be reprogrammed as often as the registers in your CPU. Besides, HFT firms would be using SRAM-based FPGAs because they are faster and larger than flash-based ones, the advantages of flash-based ones are useless to them.
> HFT firms have been banging on the drum of making FPGA's infinity programmable for a decade
That's strange, because FPGAs have been infinitely reprogrammable for longer than that.
> lots of commercial FPGA's can be re-flashed now
That's even stranger, because the vast majority of commercial FPGAs are not flash-based, but SRAM-based and can be reprogrammed as often as the registers in your CPU. Besides, HFT firms would be using SRAM-based FPGAs because they are faster and larger than flash-based ones, the advantages of flash-based ones are useless to them.
> "what has HFT actually done for the world"
Well, not this, that's for sure.