manili
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Hi every one,
I don't know if this is a good place to ask such question or not, but it's my last hope to find the answer.
These days we see a lot of cloud service companies (like Amazon) are providing their customers with a new service called FPGA-based cloud. I want to know what's happening behind the seen and how do they manage such service?
I watched a lot of Xilinx and Amazon videos about this service (AWS EC2 F1), but none of them helped me to understand what's actually going on. My questions are as follow:
1. Does Amazon allocate a real FPGA chip for the service customer, or it's a kind of virtual one like a VPS?
2. If Amazon allocates a real FPGA for me, is it also dedicated at time I'm using it?
3. If we have a GIANT size RTL code (which could not be place on a single FPGA chip), is it going to take a part our RTL and feed it to different chips?
Did I misunderstand/forget anything at all?
Thanks a lot.
I don't know if this is a good place to ask such question or not, but it's my last hope to find the answer.
These days we see a lot of cloud service companies (like Amazon) are providing their customers with a new service called FPGA-based cloud. I want to know what's happening behind the seen and how do they manage such service?
I watched a lot of Xilinx and Amazon videos about this service (AWS EC2 F1), but none of them helped me to understand what's actually going on. My questions are as follow:
1. Does Amazon allocate a real FPGA chip for the service customer, or it's a kind of virtual one like a VPS?
2. If Amazon allocates a real FPGA for me, is it also dedicated at time I'm using it?
3. If we have a GIANT size RTL code (which could not be place on a single FPGA chip), is it going to take a part our RTL and feed it to different chips?
Did I misunderstand/forget anything at all?
Thanks a lot.
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