[davidcox143]

We are! Integrated Reasoning is working on a series of FPGA cores to accelerate NP-complete problems.

We're shipping a knapsack solver and a subset sum solver to the AWS Marketplace at the end of this month!

https://integrated-reasoning.com https://ir.design/kpu

[tonmoy → davidcox143]

Wow that sounds awesome. Do you use FPGA to get the work done quicker or is it because it is more efficient in terms of computation/cost?

[davidcox143 → tonmoy]

Thanks! We're working on both -- faster computation at lower cost than what's possible on x86 or GPUs.

If you're interested in access to our beta projects, send us an email at beta@integrated-reasoning.com and we'll set you up :)

[ecesena]

We're working on multi scalar multiplication (MSM) as part of this prize, that will be evaluated on AWS F1. See link to "prize specification" for details (pdf). https://www.zprize.io/prizes/accelerating-msm-operations-on-...

[tonmoy → ecesena]

That seems pretty cool! In the past doing arithmetic seemed less efficient in custom RTL compared to GPU, but maybe I was wrong.

[ecesena → tonmoy]

No idea tbh. I haven’t seen any reliable numbers in literature and N=2^26 is pretty big/unheard of. I guess we’ll see results in a few months.

[daniel-cussen]

Dude nothing has real world value until you breathe all your breath of life into it, making it alive. Gotta be smart though, gotta make what people want.

Hey I need an HDMI controller, I want to use it to...break bandwidth barriers, I'll elaborate more when I deem proper. It's just video has the highest commonly-used bandwidth, it's the common language of high-bandwidth.

And hey I'm looking for FPGA/ASIC engineers! Starting this new thing, fgemm.com (not yet launched, demo on https://skylinesort.com). Email in profile. I mean, if you actually wanted to do an HDMI controller. Real-world value, I'll tell you more. 93% margins on hardware. If I can get HDMI to work.

It's a hack. You'll see. But you really will see it, it really will be visible through HDMI.

[aranchelk]

In the past Swarm64 was using FPGAs to accelerate Postgres queries, per a post on their blog they made FPGA hardware optional due to requests from users:

https://swarm64.com/post/announcing-swarm64-v4/

[tonmoy → aranchelk]

I had heard of accelerating DB using FPGA, before but never looked into it. Swarm64 looks impressive. Thanks!