Harding, in Rapid System Prototyping with FPGAs, 2006 16.6 SummaryįPGA manufacturers continue to advance the performance of FPGA interconnection functionality by supporting more I/O protocols and standards. Likewise, AliCloud provides FPGAs-as-a-Searvice (FaaS) to general users. On AWS's EC2, a user can instantiate F1 instances and use FPGA development tools and services.
Although Microsoft used FPGAs for their infrastructure and internal services including network and storage for the first time, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the first company which offered FPGAs to the public. Another Chinese IT company Alibaba is using FPGAs for their personalized recommendation systems. Chinese search giant Baidu has been deploying Xilinx FPGA boards in their datacenters for image and speech recognition since 2016.
However, since Microsoft proved that FPGAs can perform at cloud scale with improving the system performance and reducing the total cost of operation on the Bing search ranking case in 2014, global IT companies started to use FPGAs as a major hardware acceleration platform. Joo-Young Kim, in Advances in Computers, 2021 6.4 Cloud computingįPGAs used to be a second-class citizen in large-scale computing systems such as cloud computing and high-performance computing, where the main performance-critical computing was done by CPUs, GPUs, and other ASICs.
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