Cluster of FPGA

[Matthew Knepley]

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Rodrigo Araujo <rodrigowpa at gmail.com>wrote:

> Good Morning All,
>
> I need to implement a Cluster which in each PC there will be a FPGA
> connected to the PCIe slot. All of this to make possible to multiply dense
> matrices. Is that possible using PETSc?
>

1) I have never seen great performance from FPGAs (with the possible
exception of GRAPE). I would strongly
    encourage you to rethink this plan, and instead go with something like a
CUDA solution.

2) Software already exists to do dense linear algebra on GPUs, and would be
easy to integrate with our
    existing dense matrix implementation.

  Matt


> Best Regards.
>
> --
> Rodrigo W. Pimentel Araujo
> Engenharia da Computação
> UFPE
>
-- 
What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments
is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments
lead.
-- Norbert Wiener
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