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What are the advantages and disadvantages of COPACOBANA compared to commercial super computers such as Cray or SG machines?

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What are the advantages and disadvantages of COPACOBANA compared to commercial super computers such as Cray or SG machines?

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The optimum cost-performance ratio is the greatest advantage of COPACOBANA. However, it is not suited for all computationally hard problems since it has a comparably low communication bandwidth between individual FPGAs and between FPGAs and host, low local memory, and global memory only on the host PC.