University of Florida preps Novo-G FPGA cluster

The CHREC team at the University of Florida has announced a new reconfigurable computing cluster.
The Novo-G system is being built using FPGA accelerator cards provided by GiDEL and Altera. The system will have 96 Altera Stratix-III FPGA devices, installed into 24 networked servers with 576GB of memory and 20Gb/s InfiniBand for interconnection.
According to Professor [...]

Medical imaging gets an FPGA boost

FPGAs are finding increased use in medical electronics. Frost and Sullivan reported in 2007 that FPGAs in medical imaging, including X-Ray, CT, PET, MRI, and ultrasound, already represented as much as $138M in revenue to FPGA companies, with CT alone representing $10M or more of that amount. Steady growth in these applications was forecast through [...]