Archive of posts tagged: Accelerators
Graphics Rendering: What’s New and What’s in it for Architects? (Part I)
Introduction Computer graphics exemplifies hardware-software co-design. Since its inception, rendering algorithms have been developed hand in hand with hardware architecture. Graphics is only becoming more important with the rise of new visual applications such as...
From Hardware Description Languages to Accelerator Design Languages
We need to make it easier to design custom, application-specific hardware accelerators. The potential efficiency gains are enormous, and the cost of deploying accelerators is falling rapidly with the widespread availability of FPGA cards and the increasing...
Catalyzing Computing Podcast – Computer Architecture with Mark D. Hill
[Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on the CCC blog (part 1 and part 2) and is re-posted here with permission.] A new episode of the Computing Community Consortium‘s (CCC) official podcast, Catalyzing Computing, is now available. In this episode, Khari...
Cryptography for Secure Computing: A New Hardware Acceleration Opportunity
Big Data and artificial intelligence have empowered the data-driven computing paradigm, in which data become the most precious resources. Specifically, if one could make use of data not only of herself, but also from other sources to constitute larger datasets, it...Subscribe
