FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) are making their way into data centers (DC). They
are used as accelerators to boost the compute power of individual server nodes and to …

Due to the high levels of competition in a global market, companies have put more emphasis
on building strong customer relationships and increasing customer satisfaction levels. With …

For both passenger and freight transportation, railroad operations must be dependable,
accessible, maintained, and safe (RAMS). In many urban areas, railway stations risk and …

Text search is one of the most important problems in CS, majorly because of its indirect
applications in diverse fields like speech recognition, information retrieval, signal …

The amount of textual data has reached a new scale and continues to grow at an
unprecedented rate. IBM's SystemT software is a powerful text-analytics system that offers a …

Extracting information from unstructured text data is a compute-intensive task. The
performance of general-purpose processors cannot keep up with the rapid growth of textual …

Unstructured text data is being generated at an unprecedented rate in the form of Twitter
feeds, machine logs or medical records. The analysis of this data is an important step to …

This thesis investigates an energy-efficient, high-performance, and high-density
reconfigurable computing system for cloud data centers. By introducing decentralized fabric …

Despite the performance and power efficiency gains achieved by FPGAs for text analytics
queries, analysis shows a low utilization of the custom hardware operator modules …

Extracting information from unstructured text data is an important and compute intensive
task. To cope with the ever growing amount of data, an accelerator architecture and compiler …