Industry Expert Blogs

I’m always grateful to Michael Feldman (no, not that one) at HPCWire for being perhaps the only editor keeping track of the use of FPGAs in high-performance computing. There was a brief period of time in the mid- to late-90s when supercomputer specialists were waxing poetic on board-level upgrades utilizing FPGAs, but that seemed to wane as some of the turn-of-the-century “reconfigurability” specialists went out of business. Granted, there are some newcomers like Convey Computer (spun from the bones of Convex) who are using FPGAs, but it’s still a relatively sparse field.