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FPL
2008
Springer
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FPGA acceleration of quasi-Monte Carlo in finance
Today, quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) methods are widely used in finance to price derivative securities. The QMC approach is popular because for many types of derivatives it yields an es...
Nathan A. Woods, Tom VanCourt
FPL
2008
Springer
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Loop unrolling and shifting for reconfigurable architectures
Loops are an important source of optimization. In this paper, we propose an extension to our work on loop unrolling and loop shifting for reconfigurable architectures. By applying...
Ozana Silvia Dragomir, Todor Stefanov, Koen Bertel...
FPL
2008
Springer
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Compiler generated systolic arrays for wavefront algorithm acceleration on FPGAs
Wavefront algorithms, such as the Smith-Waterman algorithm, are commonly used in bioinformatics for exact local and global sequence alignment. These algorithms are highly computat...
Betul Buyukkurt, Walid A. Najjar
FPL
2008
Springer
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Mapping and scheduling with task clustering for heterogeneous computing systems
This paper presents a new approach for mapping task graphs to heterogeneous hardware/software computing systems using heuristic search techniques. Two techniques: (1) integration ...
Yuet Ming Lam, José Gabriel F. Coutinho, Wa...
FPL
2008
Springer
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Compiled hardware acceleration of Molecular Dynamics code
The objective of Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations is to determine the shape of a molecule in a given biomolecular environment. These simulations are very demanding computationa...
Jason R. Villarreal, Walid A. Najjar
FPL
2008
Springer
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Sampling from the exponential distribution using independent Bernoulli variates
The exponential distribution is a key distribution in many event-driven Monte-Carlo simulations, where it is used to model the time between random events in the system. This paper...
David B. Thomas, Wayne Luk
FPL
2008
Springer
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No-break dynamic defragmentation of reconfigurable devices
We propose a new method for defragmenting the module layout of a reconfigurable device, enabled by a novel approach for dealing with communication needs between relocated modules ...
Sándor P. Fekete, Tom Kamphans, Nils Schwee...
FPL
2008
Springer
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Enhancing COPACOBANA for advanced applications in cryptography and cryptanalysis
Cryptanalysis of symmetric and asymmetric ciphers is a challenging task due to the enormous amount of involved computations. To tackle this computational complexity, usually the e...
Tim Güneysu, Christof Paar, Gerd Pfeiffer, Ma...
FPL
2008
Springer
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A portable abstraction layer for hardware threads
Enno Lübbers, Marco Platzner