Role of FPGA in Cloud Computing
FPGAs are becoming increasingly common in cloud computing, and new usage paradigms, such as FPGA-as-a-service, have emerged. Due to their versatility and capacity to support numerous cloud computing models, FPGAs are a great introduction to high-performance computing in the cloud. Moreover, FPGAs have also been integrated into cloud infrastructure to improve computing performance by enabling on-demand acceleration. Integrating FPGAs with commercial cloud computing platforms, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Huawei Cloud, and Alibaba Cloud, is also a rapidly emerging trend. Cloud FPGAs enable cloud users to create hardware accelerators to boost cloud computation. Hardware acceleration is a process in which applications offload specific tasks to hardware in the system, significantly accelerating those tasks. The cloud FPGA system is built on three main pillars:The use of standalone network-attached FPGAs
- A hyper-scale infrastructure for deploying the FPGAs mentioned above at a large scale
- An accelerator service that integrates as well as manages the standalone network-attached FPGAs in the cloud at a low cost.
Now let us dive into the myriad benefits of FPGA-related cloud computing innovations.
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