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Re:What It Takes to Build True FPGA as a Service by moflome on Sunday December 11, 2016 @09:24PM (#13155044)
I'm curious what workloads you would want to see run on the FPGAs that would justify a more open platform?

As it is, I think Amazon's approach for AMI Reserved Instance Marketplace [0] sales makes sense for the AFI packages -- I would think it would make sense for a vendor to develop, debug & maintain the accelerators I'm aware of.

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/f1/

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Re:What It Takes to Build True FPGA as a Service by phamilton on Monday December 12, 2016 @12:29AM (#13155798)
I've used FPGAs for image processing. While OpenCL does accelerate this, at the end of the day it's still largely General Purpose Computation on a GPU. I'd love to be able to install a suite of Special Purpose cores for image manipulation, for example. Especially one that works with imagemagick, so that all the various libs compiled against it would just work.
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