I recall reading about the local transit department which had gotten some fancy accelerator card to help with route searches, ie when a customer wanted to go from A to B, which busses, trams etc to take.
Can't recall if it was "just" a bunch of FPGAs but it was a big-ass PCI card.
Some years later I tried to find this story again, and to check if they still used it. Turned out they had ditched it after just a couple of years. As memory sizes had increased, they could just precompute all possible routes for the next day and keep them all in memory...
Can't recall if it was "just" a bunch of FPGAs but it was a big-ass PCI card.
Some years later I tried to find this story again, and to check if they still used it. Turned out they had ditched it after just a couple of years. As memory sizes had increased, they could just precompute all possible routes for the next day and keep them all in memory...