OVH is testing Altera chips - ALTERA Arria 10 GX 1150 FPGA Chip
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#12_NOW_ things are getting really interesting!
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#13Bitcoin mining. WPA2 brute forcing.
Maybe someone will finally find the triple-des password used at adobe for password hashing.
The possibilities are endless :)
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#14Bitcoin mining. WPA2 brute forcing. Maybe someone will finally find the triple-des password used at adobe for password hashing. The possibilities are endless :)
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#15Very interesting. I'd still like to see the JVM pick up the FPGA as a possible compile target, that way people could run apps that seamlessly used the FPGA where appropriate. I have mentioned this to Intel, who are promoting this technology (and also have a team that contributes to the JVM), but so far no one is stating publicly that they are working on such a thing.
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#16If you don't click through to read about this: you can write an FPGA image in verilog/VHDL and upload it... and then run it. To me that seems like magic. HDK here: https://github.com/aws/aws-fpga (I work for AWS)
Is that repo going to be made public? It looks to be private right now.
Yup, sorry -- working on fixing that now. Check back in a bit.
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#17So know anyone can run their High Frequency Trading business on their side :-P. So much easier than buying hardware. Also deep learning works sometimes similarly. It's easier to play with on AWS with their hourly billing than buying hardware for many use cases.
The latencies from AWS servers to the exchanges probably would make HFT applications unfeasible.
Not when you use Amazon's new regions, us-fin-1, that is within the exchange's datacenter. /s?
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#18So know anyone can run their High Frequency Trading business on their side :-P. So much easier than buying hardware. Also deep learning works sometimes similarly. It's easier to play with on AWS with their hourly billing than buying hardware for many use cases.
The latencies from AWS servers to the exchanges probably would make HFT applications unfeasible.
Yeah you need to be in the colo. Also these aren't on the network card, the cpu introduces too much latency
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#19Quick Question: If anyone wants to learn programming an FPGA is learning C only way to go ? how hard is to learn and program in verilog/VHDL without electrical background ?
If anyone suggests links or books, please do
Thank You
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#20Azure will be next I guess. They're already using FPGA based systems to power Bing and their Cognitive Services.