• Jerkface@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I’d be interested to know why FPGAs were selected for this application. I’m not especially familiar with their use cases.

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      11 months ago

      This was years ago before GPU processing really took off, and we wanted the performance, but also, wanted to see if we could develop an affordable discrete lab device that could be placed in labs to aid in computationally directed bench work. So effectively, testing the efficacy of the models and designing ASICs to perform lab tests.