What type of logic are you going to be changing every other week in the Datacenter?
What chillingeffect is saying (and I agree) is that this logic should be running on the cpu.
What chillingeffect is saying (and I agree) is that this logic should be running on the cpu.
And in the case of Catapult, they'll be refactoring the algorithm to represent changes to their search feature matching, which is the majority of what they offloaded to FPGAs.
In general it seems that hardware vs. software fit is orthogonal to concerns such as frequent reconfiguration. Some algorithms simply match hardware well (high concurrency, low-complexity control flow, able to stream through data without complex state). These are often algorithms that do not fit general-purpose CPUs well (cache hierarchy wasted on streaming; lots of control overhead; low core counts relative to FPGA-level parallelism). Some of these algorithms may be for specialized and/or frequently-changing applications such that they should not be burned into an ASIC that will live in a datacenter for 3-5 years.