Intel Xeon processor with FPGA now shipping
This is great! I think that some time in the future, FPGA will be a vital part for data processing.In theory, an application with a computation-heavy task could program the FPGA to provide part of that task in hardware (think the hot innermost loop body).What I am worried about is the infrastructure that is needed to make this happen: Is there even support for this in our compilers? What would support look like?