Re:Windows file system compression had to be dumbed down
by mschuster91 on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @04:04PM
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> Now we're living with SSDs that can do 2GB/s and no CPU can decompress that quickly.
I'd totally buy a machine with a state-of-the-art CPU paired with one or two FPGAs that can be programmed as accelerators for crypto, compression, etc.
Re:Windows file system compression had to be dumbed down
by astrodust on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @03:47AM
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Intel's working on bundling FGPA with its Xeon systems, so maybe that will happen, but it's probably better addressed with a hardware decoder like is done for H.264.
I'd totally buy a machine with a state-of-the-art CPU paired with one or two FPGAs that can be programmed as accelerators for crypto, compression, etc.