Re: Parallel processing

[Darren Cook <darren@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>I'd like to use the new 1 million gate Xilinx gate array to do some
>really fast custom hardware for go.  If we put 4 or 8 of these on a PCI
>card, we can get parallel processing for go in a very small box.

I had a look at http://www.xilinx.com and it looks interesting, but it
looks like a new set of jargon to learn.

What is involved in moving tactical search C code into hardware? The
tactical searches are the bottleneck in most programs, AFAIK. Is this the
kind of project a single programmer can tackle, or is it more a job for a
team of experts?

Darren