[BenoitP]

An Intel VP mentioned it at JavaOne. He said they would provide FPGA support for OpenJDK. One central use case he mentioned would be big data & machine learning on Spark.

It was very pleasant surprise! The JVM world usually does not a have a great interface to the heterogenous world. I think it would yield tremendous benefits. FPGA-accelerated matrix multiplication, sorting, graph operations sound very appealing.

And then, as you mentioned, is the possibility of JITting things. http headers parsing ends up on the FPGA, and routes things to a message queue an actor can read. Or FPGA based actors; Does that make sense?

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I have been unable to follow this development at all, however. Do you have any news about this project? I've been looking for a blog, a github or a mailing list, but can't find any.