ExaFlexHH: an exascale-ready, flexible multi-FPGA library for biologically plausible brain simulations

IntroductionIn-silico simulations are a powerful tool in modern neuroscience for enhancing our understanding of complex brain systems at various physiological levels. To model biologically realistic and detailed systems, an ideal simulation platform must possess: (1) high performance and performance scalability, (2) flexibility, and (3) ease of...

Transactions across serverless functions leveraging stateful dataflows

Serverless computing is currently the fastest-growing cloud services segment. The most prominent serverless offering is Function-as-a-Service (FaaS), where users write functions and the cloud automates deployment, maintenance, and scalability. Although FaaS is a good fit for executing stateless functions, it does not adequately support...

Distributed transactions on serverless stateful functions

Serverless computing is currently the fastest-growing cloud services segment. The most prominent serverless offering is Function-as-a-Service (FaaS), where users write functions and the cloud automates deployment, maintenance, and scalability. Although FaaS is a good fit for executing stateless functions, it does not adequately support...

Towards Real Time Radiotherapy Simulation

We propose a novel reconfigurable hardware architecture to implement Monte Carlo based simulation of physical dose accumulation for intensity-modulated adaptive radiotherapy. The long term goal of our effort is to provide accurate dose calculation in real-time during patient treatment. This will allow wider adoption of personalised patient...

Towards real time radiotherapy simulation

We propose a novel reconfigurable hardware architecture to implement Monte Carlo based simulation of physical dose accumulation for intensity-modulated adaptive radiotherapy. The long term goal of our effort is to provide accurate online dose calculation in real-time during patient treatment. This will allow wider adoption of personalised...

The Case for Polymorphic Registers in Dataflow Computing

Heterogeneous systems are becoming increasingly popular, delivering high performance through hardware specialization. However, sequential data accesses may have a negative impact on performance. Data parallel solutions such as Polymorphic Register Files (PRFs) can potentially accelerate applications by facilitating high-speed, parallel access to...

Essential Means for Urban Computing: Specification of Web-Based Computing Platforms for Urban Planning, a Hitchhiker’s Guide

This article provides an overview of the specifications of web-based computing platforms for urban data analytics and computational urban planning practice. There are currently a variety of tools and platforms that can be used in urban computing practices, including scientific computing languages, interactive web languages, data sharing...

Infections

This paper covers two workshops that are instances of a research on the feedbacks between parametric patterning and material behavior. Infection sets the conceptual background of these workshops utilizing pattern deformations as a generative technique. Gridal Infection workshop focus on real-time dynamic patterns while Reflex Patterning workshop...