Hardware acceleration

Computing in the Specialization Era

Prof.Gustavo Alonso, Computer Science, ETH Zurich

Mar 13, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 H2 H2

cloud computing FPGA Hardware acceleration

In this talk I will discuss the shift towards hardware acceleration and show with several examples from industry and from research the large role that FPGAs are playing. I will hypothesize that we are in a new era where most of the established assumptions, rules of thumb, and accumulated wisdom about many aspects of computation in general and of data processing in particular no longer hold and need to be revisited.