Theme 1: Heterogeneous Computing Platforms

We envision a planet-scale distributed computing infrastructure with a myriad of heterogeneous accelerators. Accelerators will rapidly evolve with applications and, in addition, at any point in time, co-exist with earlier or later generations. Hence, we propose a new methodology to easily generate, deploy, and reconfigure Evolvable accelerators. Groups of accelerators will be organized into Ensembles distributed across one or multiple datacenters.  Applications will dynamically pick (and reconfigure) the desired set of accelerators from the ensemble with minor overhead. Advanced runtime and compilation methods will reconfigure multi tenant accelerator ensembles, and map  and schedule applications to them. Finally, revamped general-purpose cores will differentiate to increase performance and energy efficiency.

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