Amazon EC2 F1 Instances: Run Custom FPGAs in the AWS Cloud (aws.amazon.com) 24 points by taylorbuley 9y ago ↗ HN
[–] sciurus 9y ago ↗ Discussion when they were announced: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13072432
[–] vvanders 9y ago ↗ One thing that's really missing from that landing page is any sort of meaningful FPGA specs(LUTs, DSP slices, block RAM, etc).Still pretty cool to see FPGAs now showing up in cloud managed hardware. [–] someguy12 9y ago ↗ They mention that the F1 instance is using Xilinx's UltraScale+ FPGAs and that they have approx. 6800 DSP slices.You can see that they must be targeting the VU9P from the product selection guide (pdf) here:http://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/selection-guides...From the guide: VU9P: 6840 DSP slices, 2.3M flip-flops, 1.1M LUTs 36Mb distributed RAM 76Mb block RAM 270Mb ultra RAM Additional documentation is linked on the last page of the selector guide.Note that these specs are per FPGA. An F1 instance comes with up to 8 of these devices.
[–] someguy12 9y ago ↗ They mention that the F1 instance is using Xilinx's UltraScale+ FPGAs and that they have approx. 6800 DSP slices.You can see that they must be targeting the VU9P from the product selection guide (pdf) here:http://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/selection-guides...From the guide: VU9P: 6840 DSP slices, 2.3M flip-flops, 1.1M LUTs 36Mb distributed RAM 76Mb block RAM 270Mb ultra RAM Additional documentation is linked on the last page of the selector guide.Note that these specs are per FPGA. An F1 instance comes with up to 8 of these devices.
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[ 4.6 ms ] story [ 19.3 ms ] threadStill pretty cool to see FPGAs now showing up in cloud managed hardware.
You can see that they must be targeting the VU9P from the product selection guide (pdf) here:
http://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/selection-guides...
From the guide:
Additional documentation is linked on the last page of the selector guide.Note that these specs are per FPGA. An F1 instance comes with up to 8 of these devices.