University of Rhode Island DigitalCommons@URI Open Access Dissertations 2016 Research Into Computer Hardware Acceleration of Data Reduction and SVMS Jason Kane University of Rhode Island,
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[email protected]. RESEARCH INTO COMPUTER HARDWARE ACCELERATION OF DATA REDUCTION AND SVMS BY JASON KANE A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN COMPUTER ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND 2016 DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DISSERTATION OF JASON KANE APPROVED: Dissertation Committee: Major Professor Qing Yang Haibo He Joan Peckham Nasser H. Zawia DEAN OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND 2016 ABSTRACT Yearly increases in computer performance have diminished as of late, mostly due to the inability of transistors, the building blocks of computers, to deliver the same rate of performance seen in the 1980’s and 90’s. Shifting away from traditional CPU design, accelerator architectures have been shown to offer a potentially untapped solution. These architectures implement unique, custom hardware to increase the speed of certain tasking, such as graphics processing. The studies undertaken for this dissertation examine the ability of unique accelerator hardware to provide improved power and speed performance over traditional means, with an emphasis on classification tasking.