by Rachit Nigam on Feb 17, 2021 | Tags: Accelerators, FPGA, Programmability, Programming Languages, Workshop
FPGA-based accelerators have opened up a new frontier for accelerator design; instead of spending months building and fabricating silicon chips, programmers can buy a cloud instance to run custom hardware accelerators within hours. With the remarkable new hardware, there is a need for remarkable new software.
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by Emery Berger on Oct 12, 2020 | Tags: Accelerators, Architecture, Benchmarks, Programmability
The focus of most published research in architecture is on applications implemented in high-performance, “close-to-the-metal” languages essentially developed before computers got fast. These, let’s call them metal languages, include FORTRAN...
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by Steve Swanson on Aug 8, 2019 | Tags: Emerging Technology, Memory, non-volatile, Persistent, Programmability, Storage
On July 22-23rd, UC San Diego’s Non-Volatile Systems Laboratory and the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) hosted the first Persistent Programming In Real Life (PIRL). PIRL is a new meeting devoted to gathering and sharing real-world, practical expertise...
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by Noa Zilberman on Apr 25, 2019 | Tags: Accelerators, Data center, Emerging Technology, Hardware, Networking, Performance, Programmability, Systems
Introduction In-network computing is a new research area that has emerged over the last few years. In-network computing, also known as In-network computation or NetCompute, refers to the execution of programs typically running on end-hosts within network devices....
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by David Brooks on Oct 18, 2018 | Tags: Emerging Technology, Industry, Programmability, Specialization
It isn’t every day that a major company throws in the towel on Moore’s Law, so it is worth noting the announcement by GLOBALFOUNDRIES (GF) to halt development of the 7nm process node. With this announcement, there are now only three major vendors —...
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