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Hardware acceleration in the Age of Functions (vol II)

In our previous post we spoke about the potential solutions for deploying serverless offerings with hardware acceleration support. With the increasing adoption of the serverless and FaaS paradigms, providers will need to offer some form of hardware acceleration semantics.

Dec 4, 2020
Hardware acceleration in the Age of Functions

The debate on how to deploy applications, monoliths or micro services, is in full swing. Part of this discussion relates to how the new paradigm incorporates support for accessing accelerators, e.g. GPUs, FPGAs. That kind of support has been made available to traditional programming models the last couple of decades and its tooling has evolved to be stable and standardized.
Jun 1, 2020