An escalator is a beautiful thing

I was traveling this month, and had the unlucky situation of needed to take six different planes (three each way) for a trip to and from Illinois. My fault for booking late, but it was an opportunity to think about latency, throughput, optimization and reconfigurable computing.
Actually I didn’t think about any of those things while strolling though the [...]

Threads, pipelines and the demise of Moore’s Law

I came across an interview with Donald Knuth from June of this year, in which he throws some cold water on the current trend toward multicore computers. An excerpt:
…I might as well flame a bit about my personal unhappiness with the current trend toward multicore architecture. To me, it looks more or less like the hardware [...]

Impulse and UW win medical imaging grant

Impulse and the University of Washington have won a grant from the Washington Technology Center for investigations into reconfigurable, FPGA-based computing in the domain of positron emission tomography (PET) scanning. This project, which will be directed by Scott Hauck at the University of Washington, will initially apply the Impulse C tools and multiple hardware platforms to the [...]