> On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 04:46:42PM -0400, Douglas Eadline wrote: > > > Intel has just announced the ability to place a Xilinx Virtex-5 > > FPGA's into to socket 771, 603,4 (Xeon) motherboard. > > It sits on the FSB and requires some digital glue (10% of the > > FPGA). Makes for some interesting toys. > > This isn't new in the sense that you've been able to buy similar > gizmos for Opteron for years, either plugging into a socket or on an > HTX board. But, if the Inquirer article is correct, it sounds like a > pretty good implementation, with a small interface core that can run > at nearly full speed on the FSB. > > -- greg >
It's not clear to me how open Intel FSB has become but Nallatech announced recently an agreement with Intel to develop FSB FPGA modules and tools http://www.nallatech.com/?node_id=1.5.11.1.1&id=146 _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
