Decision Support System (DSS) workloads are known to be one of the most time-consuming database workloads that processes large data sets. Traditionally, DSS queries have been acce...
Field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), graphics processing units (GPUs) and Sony's PlayStation 2 vector units offer scope for hardware acceleration of applications. We compa...
Lee W. Howes, Paul Price, Oskar Mencer, Olav Beckm...
Compute unified device architecture (CUDA) is a software development platform that allows us to run C-like programs on the nVIDIA graphics processing unit (GPU). This paper prese...
Bioinformatics applications are one of the most relevant and compute-demanding applications today. While normally these applications are executed on clusters or dedicated parallel ...
Maria Charalambous, Pedro Trancoso, Alexandros Sta...
—Accelerators are special purpose processors designed to speed up compute-intensive sections of applications. Two extreme endpoints in the spectrum of possible accelerators are F...
Shuai Che, Jie Li, Jeremy W. Sheaffer, Kevin Skadr...