This document presents part of the deliverable on system architecture which aims at describing the overall architecture of VINEYARD and specifically the hardware and the software components that are developed in VINEYARD. VINEYARD's goal is to both develop energy efficient hardware-accelerated servers and to develop the required framework for the seamless utilization of these servers in the programming frameworks that are widely used by the applications developers. To this end, this document

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... cribes the VINEYARD platform and the VINEYARD framework. The VINEYARD platform consists of the hardware devices that are used and developed during the project while the VINEYARD framework consists of all the software, middleware, APIs, libraries and GUIs that are developed for the efficient integration of the hardware platforms.