The Microsoft white paper, "Accelerating Deep Convolutional Neural Networks Using Specialized Hardware" describes an OpenCL programmed implementation of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) that touts a conservative estimate of 3x the performance-to-power advantage over NVIDIA GPUs when running on new FPGA hardware. Doug Berger posted on the Inside Microsoft Research … [Read more...]
Implications of OS Jitter on Real-Time Applications for FPGAs, GPUs, and Intel
FPGAs, GPUs, and Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors can all offer superb performance at low watt/flop and high flop/dollar ratios for real-time computing. To promote real-time FPGA development, several Altera Engineers (Chee Nouk Phoon,Chei Siang Ng, Steve Jahnke, plus Findlay Shearer, Linux Marketing Manager) examined the impact of operating system jitter on real-time performance in … [Read more...]
Free Online OpenCL FPGA Development Courses By Altera
Altera has released a new training course to teach OpenCL programmers how to develop code for FPGAs, "Building Custom Platforms for Altera SDK for OpenCL". This online training will go over all of the necessary steps to create a custom platform compatible with the Altera SDK for OpenCL. Altera recommends completing the following courses: Introduction to Parallel … [Read more...]