COPROCESSORS Coprocessors designed for data-oriented computing can deliver orders-of-magnitude better performance than general-purpose microprocessors on data-pathcentric compute kernels. We evaluated the benefits of two coprocessor architectures: graphics processors and reconfigurable hardware. Data-intensive problems challenge conventional computing architectures with demanding CPU, memory, and I/O requirements. Experiments with three benchmarks suggest that emerging hardware technologies can

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... significantly boost performance of a wide range of applications by increasing compute cycles and bandwidth and reducing latency.