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A web-based multiuser operating system for reconfigurable computing

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Parallel and Distributed Processing (IPPS 1999)

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Traditional reconfigurable computing platforms are designed to be used by a single user at a time, and are acknowleged to be difficult to design applications for. These factors limit the usefulness of such machines in education, where one might want to share such a machine and initially hide some of the technical difficulties so as to explore issues of greater value. We have developed a multitasking operating system to share our SPACE.2 coprocessing board among up to 8 simultaneous users. A suite of pre-configured tasks and a web based client allows novices to run reconfigurable computing applications. As users develop a knowledge of the FPGA design process they are able to make use of a more advanced PC client to build and upload their own designs. The development aims to increase access to the machine and generate interest in the further study of reconfigurable computing. We report on the design, our experience to date, and directions for further development.

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  1. School of Computer and Information Science, University of South Australia, 5095, Mawson Lakes, SA

    Oliver Diessel, David Kearney & Grant Wigley

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José Rolim Frank Mueller Albert Y. Zomaya Fikret Ercal Stephan Olariu Binoy Ravindran Jan Gustafsson Hiroaki Takada Ron Olsson Laxmikant V. Kale Pete Beckman Matthew Haines Hossam ElGindy Denis Caromel Serge Chaumette Geoffrey Fox Yi Pan Keqin Li Tao Yang G. Chiola G. Conte L. V. Mancini Domenique Méry Beverly Sanders Devesh Bhatt Viktor Prasanna

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Diessel, O., Kearney, D., Wigley, G. (1999). A web-based multiuser operating system for reconfigurable computing. In: Rolim, J., et al. Parallel and Distributed Processing. IPPS 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1586. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg . https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0097942

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