Reconfigurable computing platforms offer the promise of substantially accelerating
computations through the concurrent nature of hardware structures and the ability of these …

Dryad is a general-purpose distributed execution engine for coarse-grain data-parallel
applications. A Dryad application combines computational" vertices" with communication" …

New electronics technologies are emerging which may carry us beyond the limits of
lithographic processing down to molecular-scale feature sizes. Devices and interconnects …

Coarse-grain reconfigurable arrays (CGRAs) can achieve much higher performance and
efficiency than general-purpose cores, approaching the performance of a specialized design …

We propose a new set of OS abstractions to support GPUs and other accelerator devices as
first class computing resources. These new abstractions, collectively called the PTask API …

Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have been integrated into the cloud infrastructure
to enhance its computing performance by supporting on-demand acceleration. However …

Computer systems increasingly rely on heterogeneity to achieve greater performance,
scalability and energy efficiency. Because heterogeneous systems typically comprise …

With the increasing miniaturization of transistors, wire delays are becoming a dominant
factor in microprocessor performance. To address this issue, a number of emerging …

Some embodiments provide a configurable IC that includes several configurable logic
circuits for configurably performing computations. The configurable IC also includes several …

As the number of computing devices embedded into engineered systems continues to rise,
there is a widening gap between the needs of the user to control aggregates of devices and …