Debian on FPGA
tuomas@open-studios
I'm a Finnish student with a company called Bluescreen that just
recently changed its name into Open Studios. I'm providing tailored Web
pages, solutions on debian and debian platforms for PC's and laptops.
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I'm requesting any old hardware that is in cood condition and that is
being recycled due to updates. The computers will be installed with
skolelinux and they will serve Kenyan, Tanzanian, Ugandan, Rwandan,
Burundian, Zambian, Somalian, Ethiopian, Sudanese, Angolan, Congolese
(Democratic Republic of Congo), Camerounian, Nigerian, Benin, Togolese
and Ghanaian schools in collaboration with
http://www.schoolnetafrica.net and http://www.nepad.org .
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I'm requesting help for setting up Enemy Territory game servers and
writing a booking system with a dynamic player info and performance
system to keep data on the players' success. The environment would be
used to host pay tournaments on open source games like Enemy Territory
or Unreal Tournament, with prizes. My company would sponsor some of the
prices and it would be a stakeholder in the tournament with any people
who help to form the organizer group. Anyway my main idea is the
following...
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I've been working on this HOBBY project for a moment. It's still on an
idea level. I've been thinking about writing the Debian base system
with critical user applications runtime binaries and user libraries on
an FPGA chip or manyof them. The user filesystems would be on Flash or
another mass storage system.
The architecture implemented with an efficient CPU(s) like Transmeta
Efficeon or AMD Opteron would reduce dramatically CPU load and pressure
in mass storage's bus, thus freeing resources for the users. It would
also reduce the heat emissions and need for storage space (several
gigabytes which is a lot on smaller hard disk form factors such as 1
and 1.8 inch and on Flash chips). In general, if Linux base system and
the libraries were on FPGA chips apart from the mass storage, the
capacity of the computer would increase remarkably. Still, the base
system would remain configurable.
Real world applications would include more capacitous data
visualization systems, scientific computing arrays, communication
satellites, Internet routers on Linux, servers, PC's, gaming consoles
and handheld devices. Basically the design would resemble that of
heavymetal Internet routers where most routine operations are
integrated, except that in this architecture also the base system would
be on an FPGA circuit.
I've been developing with an Xilinx SDK in häme Polytechnic lab and
rolling out some basic simulations on my Debian Sarge box at home.
If any of you know how to help me in my project, please email
tuomas.sa...@forssa.hamk.fi or preferrably call me at
+358417062773 My IM is tuomas_sa...@yahoo.com If you speak fluent
Kiswahili, message my colleague Sarah Wafula at sarah...@yahoo.com
Best regards
Tuomas Santakallio - Open Studios