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Another example of a company or product web page that fails to explain what they are offering. You make stuff go faster, got that. But how do you do it or even

by danbruc 11y ago

Another example of a company or product web page that fails to explain what they are offering. You make stuff go faster, got that. But how do you do it or even more what do I have to do? Hand you a binary? Hand you source code in this or that language? Rewrite my source code using a library you give to me? Something entirely different? Put this in the first one or two sentences - we make stuff go faster by, for example, recompiling your C++ source code to a net list for an FPGA - then you can go on with this marketing stuff telling me how important all this is and what opportunities it offers and so on. I will of course skip reading that.

mtweak 11y ago
Hello, a cofounder of Bitfusion here. Thanks for your question, you can take a look at our TCD presentation for an overview: http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/05/bitfusion-helps-developers-get-more-power-out-of-their-existing-hardware/ http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/05/bitfusion-helps-developers-... Bitfusion is a software layer that discovers available hardware accelerators and then automatically applies accelerator libraries, smart load scheduling, and dozens of software optimization techniques to make acceleration “plug and play”. Specifically, our software is built on top of OpenCL which allows our software to take advantage of any device that supports OCL. It’s a solid basis for hardware compatibility, and it allows us to take advantage of FPGAs that just recently started supporting OCL robustly. Second, we’ve build a bunch of functionality to make simultaneous use of multiple accelerators — even from different vendors and types. This is an important step because a fundamental problem for widespread adoption of heterogeneous hardware is being vendor and device neutral to keep software development sane and tractable. Thirdly, we’ve been developing, curating, and partnering to combine the most promising automatic software optimization tech to deliver to our customers to address app performance more generally. Hardware acceleration to the masses is *primarily about friction: apis, code optimization, vendor-specific code. Bitfusion is all about bringing this friction down to zero. We love talking about this stuff all day, so send us a note if you'd like to talk more. Mazhar

by danbruc 11y ago

mtweak 11y ago

Hello, a cofounder of Bitfusion here. Thanks for your question, you can take a look at our TCD presentation for an overview: http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/05/bitfusion-helps-developers-get-more-power-out-of-their-existing-hardware/ http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/05/bitfusion-helps-developers-... Bitfusion is a software layer that discovers available hardware accelerators and then automatically applies accelerator libraries, smart load scheduling, and dozens of software optimization techniques to make acceleration “plug and play”. Specifically, our software is built on top of OpenCL which allows our software to take advantage of any device that supports OCL. It’s a solid basis for hardware compatibility, and it allows us to take advantage of FPGAs that just recently started supporting OCL robustly. Second, we’ve build a bunch of functionality to make simultaneous use of multiple accelerators — even from different vendors and types. This is an important step because a fundamental problem for widespread adoption of heterogeneous hardware is being vendor and device neutral to keep software development sane and tractable. Thirdly, we’ve been developing, curating, and partnering to combine the most promising automatic software optimization tech to deliver to our customers to address app performance more generally. Hardware acceleration to the masses is *primarily about friction: apis, code optimization, vendor-specific code. Bitfusion is all about bringing this friction down to zero. We love talking about this stuff all day, so send us a note if you'd like to talk more. Mazhar