This use of FPGAs is not particularly groundbreaking. I know that a major aeroengine manufacturer in the UK ran full gas turbine simulations on FPGA computers: that's high-order differential equations being run through some continuous-time solver and with parameter sweeps to perform sensitivity analysis. Now that's the kind of application that should get engineers excited. It is good to see a company like Maxeler making a business out of this kind of technology though.

I think that a movie about dead code must be awesome! This must be the movie about how the execution of titled "dead code" in the country's defense network causes it to fail, thus resulting in the unimpeded invasion by Soviet troops, only for them to be repulsed by a team of teen hackers who manage to optimize-out the errant routines, recompile the software using nothing other than a ZX81 and to reinstall it by delivering it on tape to a wounded air force pilot. Or am I mixing that up with another movie?