Speaker
Magnus Peterson
(Synective Labs)
Description
Speeding up computational heavy software by replacing traditional CPUs with
other types of programmable devices is becoming a more and more viable
technique. GPUs, FPGAs and Cell processors, which are the most common ones,
offer tremendous computing power, at lower cost and at lower power
consumption
than CPUs. Their supporting eco-systems have also matured considerable over
the
last years, making them increasingly interesting not just for experimental
systems, but for a broad range of real life applications.
This presentation will make a survey of the different technologies, of available
hardware solutions and available programming tools.
