Developer Preview – EC2 Instances with Programmable Hardware
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#2If 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)
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#3So 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.
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#4> Today we are launching a developer preview of the new F1 instance. In addition to building applications and services for your own use, you will be able to package them up for sale and reuse in AWS Marketplace.
Wow. An app store for FPGA IPs and the infrastructure to enable anyone to use it. That's really cool.
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#6So 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.
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#7Would love to know what that gets priced at per hour, as well as if they plan to have smaller FPGAs available while developing.
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#8For my institute this is going to be _really_ useful for Genomics data processing because we can't justify buying expensive hardware for undergrad research. Using a FPGA hardware over cloud sounds almost magical!
Re: Developer Preview – EC2 Instances with Programmable Hardware
#9> Today we are launching a developer preview of the new F1 instance. In addition to building applications and services for your own use, you will be able to package them up for sale and reuse in AWS Marketplace. Wow. An app store for FPGA IPs and the infrastructure to enable anyone to use it. That's really cool.
I guess this will be a game changer for FPGA-mineable digital currencies. Maybe not for Bitcoin, because people have invested heavily into dedicated mining hardware, but I'm interested to see what it'll do for the smaller altcoins.
Re: Developer Preview – EC2 Instances with Programmable Hardware
#10If 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.