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re: On the other hand, I'll take the fact that absolutely no one does this as evidence that it is not a good idea.

Have a look at Altera Investor Meeting 2013 Presentation, the first pdf at

http://investor.altera.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=83265&p=irol-IRHome

slide 39 onwards at how they view servers as an opportunity and are used by a number of large data centers. They now have big FPGAs with multi core albeit rather low level 64 bit processors.