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From: Dennis Yurichev on 21 Jan 2010 23:57 Hi. Are there such thing as FPGA farm (for cryptographical purposes), containing a lot of expensive FPGAs, and accessed remotely for some payment?
From: StoneThrower on 22 Jan 2010 22:30 > Are there such thing as FPGA farm (for cryptographical purposes), Sure it is there. That farm is called NSA and employs farmers called MiBs (men in black). The farm is even remotely accessable via satelite called Echelon. That Echelon contains AI chip called Clipper. The legend goes that MiBs are using Clipper to feed the FPGA to read all our emails. -- StoneThrower www.dgmicrosys.com
From: Thomas Womack on 23 Jan 2010 05:45 In article <b48f5c25-73e0-4b57-8e71-d562a6b427cf(a)r19g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>, Dennis Yurichev <dennis.yurichev(a)gmail.com> wrote: >Hi. > >Are there such thing as FPGA farm (for cryptographical purposes), >containing a lot of expensive FPGAs, and accessed remotely for some >payment? There's www.copacobana.org which is 120 x Virtex4 SX35 in a 2U box; you can rent time on them by contacting cpaar(a)crypto.rub.de though I'm not sure how big the farm actually is. There's http://www.enterpoint.co.uk/merrick/supercomputers.html which seems to be trying to set up a business model based on renting time on their Merrick-1 boards, each of which contains a 10x10 array of XC3SD3400A. But I get the impression that this tends to be an area that small businesses see as a gap in the market, and then turn as they try to exploit the gap into single-purpose consultancies providing FPGA boards to the oil-services or government markets rather than trying to sell LUT*Hz as a commodity. About the only shrink-wrap FPGA-array application is breaking DES, and that's not terribly easy to monetize because you tend to have a degree of official suspicion of your customers. I get the impression that big grids of FPGAs are normally sold at enormous mark-up and in association with enormously expensive properitary software as ASIC emulators Tom
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