by Jakub Szefer on May 11, 2021 | Tags: Cloud computing, FPGA, Security
FPGAs in Cloud Computing The availability of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) in cloud datacenters has opened up new ways to improve application performance by letting users write their own custom hardware accelerators that they can realize on the FPGAs....
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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 André DeHon on Feb 9, 2021 | Tags: EDVAC, ENIAC, FPGA, Von Neumann Architecture, Women in Computing
On February 15th, 2021, Penn SEAS will celebrate the 75th anniversary of the unveiling of ENIAC — the electronic computer that started our field. You are invited to attend the Zoom Webinar: https://events.seas.upenn.edu/event/eniacday/
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by Mark Silberstein on Apr 16, 2018 | Tags: Accelerators, Data center, FPGA, Networking, SmartNICs, Systems
Programmable network controllers, SmartNICs, are an old concept, yet today they are seeing renewed interest and growing adoption in data centers and HPC systems. This blog post discusses the trends in modern computer networks that drive the dramatic increase of...
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