Customizable Register Files for Multidimensional SIMD Architectures

Processor clock frequencies and the related performance improvements recently stagnated due to severe power and thermal dissipation barriers. As a result, the additional transistors provided by new technology generations are turned into more processing elements on a chip and used for their specialization towards power efficiency. For data...

Multicore Architectures for Bioinformatics Applications

In this dissertation, we address the challenges of performance scaling for bioinformatics applications on multicore architectures. In particular, we focus on sequence alignment, one of the fundamental tasks in bioinformatics. Due to the exponential growth of biological databases and the computational complexity of the algorithms used, high...

Realistic Online Resource Management for Partially Reconfigurable Systems

In this dissertation, we focus our research on the problems related to efficient configurable resource management for partially reconfigurable systems. FPGA devices are used to build such systems for various application domains with telecommunication and energy efficient high performance computing being two prominent examples. Dynamic management...

Efficient Runtime Management of Reconfigurable Hardware Resources

Runtime reconfigurable systems built upon devices with partial reconfiguration can provide reduction in overall hardware area, power efficiency, and economic cost in addition to the performance improvements due to better customization. However, the users of such systems have to be able to afford some additional costs compared to hardwired...