Intel Xeon processor with FPGA now shipping

Re:Intel Xeon processor with FPGA now shipping by meuk on Friday May 25, 2018 @02:44AM (#17151189)

That is called high-level synthesis and there are some tools for this available (and I know at least one company who produces a proprietary toolchain - including hardware - for this).

In my experience, high-level synthesis makes things a lot easier for the programmer, but you still have to be aware of very low-level details (and you still can get bitten by abstractions that you don't fully understand).

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Re:Intel Xeon processor with FPGA now shipping by exikyut on Friday May 25, 2018 @04:35AM (#17151683)

That company might fruitfully make their system available within a datacenter / "VPS"-type context, eg the way Cloud9 does it. (https://c9.io/, you make a free account, you instantly get a Web based editor connected to a Debian VM)

If their system accepts "mostly ordinary" code in eg C, a fair amount of stuff would probably work with it, so it could scale beyond educational exploration/tinkering, too.

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Re:Intel Xeon processor with FPGA now shipping by alde on Friday May 25, 2018 @06:12AM (#17152036)

Here is a service I know of: https://reconfigure.io/

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Re:Intel Xeon processor with FPGA now shipping by meuk on Saturday May 26, 2018 @03:36AM (#17160705)

I think they did exactly that with Amazon AWS instances (although I have to admit that I don't know the specifics).

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