Intel Shows Xeon Scalable Gold 6138P with Integrated FPGA, Shipping to Vendors

Re:Intel Shows Xeon Scalable Gold 6138P with Integrated FPGA... by vegetablepotpie on Friday May 18, 2018 @02:14AM (#17099093)

I can think of two possibilities: 1. Hardware accelerated custom crypto algorithms. 2. Specialized co-processor. You could implement an exotic processing architecture on the FPGA to off-load computations to, like a complex number processor with 52-bit words in a custom floating point format for a specific application.

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Re:Intel Shows Xeon Scalable Gold 6138P with Integrated FPGA... by agumonkey on Friday May 18, 2018 @03:11AM (#17099295)

I don't know how fast the FPGA can reconfigure itself or part of it, but you could also have per process bare metal JIT

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Re:Intel Shows Xeon Scalable Gold 6138P with Integrated FPGA... by slivym on Friday May 18, 2018 @06:29AM (#17100267)

It takes in the order of seconds to reconfigure. JIT is not really viable.

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Re:Intel Shows Xeon Scalable Gold 6138P with Integrated FPGA... by tfmkevin on Friday May 25, 2018 @02:20PM (#17156496)

Nope. Reconfiguration takes milliseconds. Also, Arria 10 supports partial reconfiguration which means that the FPGA can keep operating while some of the logic is reconfigured via bitstream.

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Re:Intel Shows Xeon Scalable Gold 6138P with Integrated FPGA... by agumonkey on Friday May 18, 2018 @07:44AM (#17100613)

we need to jit the fpga jit jit then

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Re:Intel Shows Xeon Scalable Gold 6138P with Integrated FPGA... by GuB-42 on Friday May 18, 2018 @06:42AM (#17100332)

Another use case is if you have a large amount of asynchronous I/O and real time constraints.

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