Craven, StephenAthanas, Peter M.2012-08-242012-08-242007-01-10EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems. 2007 Jan 10;2007(1):093652http://hdl.handle.net/10919/18934For certain applications, custom computational hardware created using field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) can produce significant performance improvements over processors, leading some in academia and industry to call for the inclusion of FPGAs in supercomputing clusters. This paper presents a comparative analysis of FPGAs and traditional processors, focusing on floating-point performance and procurement costs, revealing economic hurdles in the adoption of FPGAs for general high-performance computing (HPC).application/pdfenCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 InternationalArticle - Refereed2012-08-24Stephen Craven et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.https://doi.org/10.1155/2007/93652