I'm wondering how a $4T company got away with shipping the absolute state of the toolchain to begin with. They have total and complete sovereignty on everything on the outside of the OS and PCIe boundaries with a bottomless pool of top class labor. There's no reason it has to be cruftier or more fragile than any other low latency networked computation... and yet here we are. AMD isn't any better. I'm almost interested to see if Intel has done any better with L0, but I highly suspect it suffers from the exact same ecosystem hell problems that plague the other two.
The idea that getting a PCIe FPGA board to crunch numbers is less headache prone than a GPU is laughable, but that's the absurd reality we live in.
The idea that getting a PCIe FPGA board to crunch numbers is less headache prone than a GPU is laughable, but that's the absurd reality we live in.