High-Performance Computing
The high-performance computing (HPC) market is rapidly expanding, and Altera® FPGA coprocessing is enabling the growth. HPC markets such as financial, medical imaging, bioscience, military, and many others are benefiting from the logic and memory resources in Altera's FPGAs to develop application-specific coprocessors. All HPC markets require coprocessors to provide a performance, productivity, and power advantage. In some cases, Altera FPGA coprocessors accelerate algorithms in excess of 100x. Solutions are now shipping in the following categories:
- Appliances: database acceleration, financial market data acceleration
- Functions: random number generators for financial, 1M point fast Fourier transform (FFT) for military/test, etc.
- Algorithms: SRC’s CARTE, Impulse, AutoESL
For high-bandwidth and low-latency CPU interfaces, partners have Stratix®-based Opteron HT1.0 solutions, Intel FSB solutions, and memory DIMM interface solutions. Stratix IV GX FPGAs provide Opteron HT3.0 support.
Floating-Point
In HPC, floating-point is a numerical representation system where a string of digits (or bits) represents a real number. Applications are increasingly using floating-point data types for more accurate results. The commonly used floating-point applications include:
- FFT
- Radar
- Bioscience
- Finite impulse response (FIR)
- Financial options trading
- Matrix math
- Molecular dynamics
- Seismic imaging
- Medical imaging
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