Product category: Programmable Logic Devices
News Release from: Altera Europe
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 28 August 2006
University programme promotes FPGA
coprocessing
Altera has set up a new university programme to support academic research into high-performance computing.
Altera has set up a new university programme to support academic research into high-performance computing AMD, Sun Microsystems and XtremeData are participating in the programme that will donate US $1 million in workstations and development software to universities
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 27 Jun 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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Using the workstations, participating universities will be able to research and drive the adoption of FPGA coprocessing for high-performance computing applications such as medical imaging, data analytics, text searches, network security, bioinformatics and energy.
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