FPGA Accelerated Computing Using AWS F1 Instances (121671)

The availability of FPGA instances on AWS, combined with improved cloud-based FPGA programming tools, provides researchers, application developers, and startups with a well-tested, standardized, and accessible platform for hardware accelerated computing. This session introduces the F1 FPGA cloud-based instances, walks through a typical development and deployment process, and highlights a number of use cases in domains including genomics, video processing, text search, and financial computing.