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Special Purpose Appliances Fuel Singularity, an FPGA/GPU Application Case Study
Since the early 1980’s each next-generation system architecture has exhibited the characteristic of physically collapsing to the next highest level of integration. Parallel bus structures provided physical support, power and signaling to enable a building block approach to developing solutions – especially for embedded computing platforms. What is next?
In this short article you will learn:
- History of system architecture from 1980’s to now
- Examples of applications suited to GPUs and FPGAs
- Why GPUs and FPGAs are needed for Big Data Analytics and Machine Learning
- When to use GPUs versus FPGAs
- Programmability challenges of GPUs and FPGAs
