[Beowulf] FPGA storage accelerator

[Joe Landman]

Ha! "Then maybe, just maybe, perhaps 640 PB ought to be enough. Maybe."

Back in 2005 or so, we had these little USB connected FPGA that we were 
using for various annotation tools.  I remember one for BLAST, and doing 
HMMer on GPUs.  I seem to remember shocking the person from NVidia at 
SC2006 on the performance of the whole GPU HMMer app.  They were busy 
talking about kernels getting 10-30x performance gain, and we had a 
whole app that did that.

That was the tail end of my time trying to raise money to build 
accelerators.  Good times.


On 06/06/2018 09:31 PM, James Cuff wrote:
>
> Hi team,
>
> Stumbled across this tech the other day and wrote a little piece about 
> it.  Feels a bit like the old days to me. What do we think? It’s kinda 
> fascinating, hope to catch up with a few ‘wulfers at ISC later this 
> month.
>
> https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/06/06/thanks-for-the-memories/
>
> Best,
>
> J.
>
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