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Re:Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Com... by jdietrich on Thursday August 23, 2018 @05:34AM (#17825844)
You can spin up an FPGA-accelerated EC2 instance right now. There are a few highly specialised applications where every scrap of performance matters, but for the most part the software development costs are prohibitive compared to just spinning up more CPU or GPU instances.

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

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Re:Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Com... by snaky on Thursday August 23, 2018 @06:26AM (#17826044)
There are some interesting ideas about programmability, like automagically offloading some computation parts to FPGA.

http://conal.net/blog/posts/haskell-to-hardware-via-cccs http://conal.net/blog/posts/circuits-as-a-bicartesian-closed... https://github.com/conal/lambda-ccc/blob/master/doc/notes.md

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Re:Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Com... by Filligree on Thursday August 23, 2018 @12:34PM (#17828615)
The software needed to drive them needs to become much better (documented, ergonomics, everything) before that will be a realistic option.
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