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EPSRC Reference:	EP/C544692/1
Title:	Liquid Circuits: Automated Dynamic Hardware Acceleration of Compute-Intensive Applications
Principal Investigator:	Mencer, Dr OP
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Department:	Computing
Organisation:	Imperial College London
Scheme:	Advanced Fellowship (Pre-FEC)
Starts:	01 October 2005	Ends:	30 September 2010	Value (£):	304,116
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Electronic Devices & Subsys. Software Engineering
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	No relevance to Underpinning Sectors
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Panel History:	Panel Date Panel Name Outcome 22 Mar 2005 EURYI Central Panel Deferred 11 Mar 2005 ICT Fellowships Sift Panel 2005 Deferred
Summary on Grant Application Form
Imagine PCs could morph their hardware to match the programs that are running. After a while, new programs running on a machine would suddenly speed up by up to 10 times because the hardware has adapted to the new task. When running an application for the first time, the microprocessor reads the instructions of the new program and executes them. While executing the program the PC looks for ways to run the program faster. The next time the program is used, the computer uses the experience from the previous runs to do a better job. The process of utilising experience is called dynamic optimisation. In this project, we take a bold step forward and claim that it is possible to build a computer which learns how to execute programs faster by changing it's own hardware to adapt to the problem being solved. The result can be more than 10 times faster computers at the price of a graphics acceleration card such as nVidia or ATI.
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