The Internet of Things (IoT) concept allows objects to share data through wired or wireless
connections for communication purposes. The industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is an …

Conducting long-timescale simulations of small molecules using Molecular Dynamics (MD)
is crucial in drug design. However, traditional methods to accelerate the process, including …

To improve flexibility and energy efficiency of Convolutional Neural Networks, a number of
cloud computing service providers-including Microsoft, Amazon, and Alibaba-are using …

Background Real-time analysis of patient data during medical procedures can provide vital
diagnostic feedback that significantly improves chances of success. With sensors becoming …

The implementation of Molecular Dynamics (MD) on FPGAs has received substantial
attention. Previous work, however, has consisted of either proof-of-concept implementations …

In the last five years, FPGA presence in the cloud has gone from near zero (except for
deeply embedded devices) to a large fraction of all high-end FPGAs sold. This is because …

MPI collective operations can often be performance killers in HPC applications; we seek to
solve this bottleneck by offloading them to reconfigurable hardware within the switch itself …

High-performance computing (HPC) applications often generate enormous amounts of data
that must be transferred for check-pointing, in situ processing, or post-execution analysis. To …

FPGAs have typically achieved high speedups for 3D Fast Fourier Transforms (FFTs) due to
the presence of hard floating point units, low latency specialized pipelines, and support for …

FPGAs have emerged as a cost-effective accelerator alternative in clouds and clusters.
Programmability remains a challenge, however, with OpenCL being generally recognized …