From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-02-03T08:11:50+09:00
Subject: Re: neuroimage software - scientific computing and visualization

On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, Joel VanderWerf wrote:

> Phil Tomson wrote:
>> Here's an tantalizing idea that I'll throw out:  C is one thing and, yes, it's
>> fast.... but what if you could actually map some algorithm or math operation to
>> _hardware_ and thus get a large speed  advantage even over C?  I'm working on
>> something like this... details forthcoming.  The idea is very similar to
>> Ruby::Inline.  It will allow seamless communication between your Ruby program
>> and an FPGA board acting as hardware accelerator (these boards are available
>> for less than $200 now).
>
> That would be very cool. Eventually, we're going to be porting a
> wireless network stack to FPGA, and being able to still use Ruby would
> be very nice.
>
> What kind of code goes inside your "inline" blocks?

this sounds insanely cool.  can you ping me offline phil?

-a

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