Hello!
I am Patrick. Here's an #introduction.
My interests are in software, physics and mathematics.
My current hobbies is on hardware acceleration of computation, the mathematics of electronic circuits, and other random things I find interesting at the moment.
Never really used Twitter, but Mastodon has a better feel to it, so might as well give it a try.
@pfpoitras Hey, nice to meet you and welcome!
For what fields/applications do you accelerate computation?
Thanks for the warm welcome!
My first idea came when I worked as a mathematician for a large gambling firm. Job sucked but the math was interesting. The problem was calculating the odds for video lottery. A quick and simple solution would be to test all possible positions with all possible lines, then average out the result. 1/
@abde
The problem is that you quickly run out of computing power. You're looking for 50 patterns of elements on screen, and there's 200^5 screens
Patterns are constant though, so with a combination of logic gates, you could have a result computed in 1 step/screen. I thought maybe I could force an FPGA to do this at speed.
I've since moved on to a job in quantum acceleration hardware, and the original idea has expanded into an broader interest that I'm messing with during weekends.
@pfpoitras Wow nice! My main interest is GPU computing and I have seen many papers that suggest that the next thing is FPGA for parallel computing. However, I never really looked into it because of lack of time.
I will keep reading more about what you post here :)
@abde
Cheers! And thanks once more for the warm welcome!