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taylorphebuson Simulating RISC-V Clusters with FPGAs on AWS

https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/xilinx-inc/XCVU9P-...

The list price of a Vu9P is like $50,000. I'm sure that's not the real price, but still.

taylorphebuson Simulating RISC-V Clusters with FPGAs on AWS

https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/ $1.65/hour in N. Virginia

Way less with spot prices, but for something like this, you probably want on-demand.

taylorphebuson Programmer Competency Matrix (2016)

One big thing I was working on when I was studying FP was a processor simulator, which was basically 100% state with a bunch of things operating on different parts of the state at once. It wasn't clear to me that FP would get me any benefit even if my language would handle all the issues passing state around in that case.