Investment to help productize acceleration technology and broaden vertical market offerings Falcon Computing Solutions, a leader in Acceleration technology and solutions for big-data applications, today announced it had closed $8M in financing led by Intel Capital. Joining Intel Capital are all previous investors including Baidu Ventures and Clear Ventures, as well as SV Tech Ventures […]
Falcon Computing Solutions, a leader in acceleration technology and solutions for big-data applications, today announced Tools and Solutions for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) F1 instances. Falcon’s product offerings come in the form of tools and libraries as well as complete solutions designed to improve performance and power efficiency of applications running on F1 […]
PLDI is the premier forum in the field of programming languages and programming systems research, covering the areas of design, implementation, theory, applications, and performance. The co-located conferences take place in Barcelona, June 18-23, 2017. Official Website: http://pldi17.sigplan.org/
Jingsheng Jason Cong, Distinguished Chancellor’s Professor of Computer Science, was recognized by the academy “for pioneering contributions to application-specific programmable logic via innovations in field programmable gate array (FPGA) synthesis.” Cong has led research in electronic design automation, energy-efficient computing, customized computing for big-data applications, and highly scalable algorithms. In particular, FPGAs designed by his […]
This month, Falcon co-founder Dr. Jason Cong and his coauthors received ASP-DAC’s 10-Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper Award at the 2017 Asia and South-Pacific Design Automation Conference held in Tokyo, Japan. Their award-winning paper, “Thermal-Aware 3D IC Placement Via Transformation,” was published in ASP-DAC in 2007. This is Jason’s second 10-Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper […]
Howe brings 14 years of Executive Leadership in the Programmable Logic Industry. Falcon Computing Solutions, a pioneer in customized computing for big-data applications, today announced the hiring of Bradley Howe as CEO. Howe joins Falcon from Intel, where he headed engineering for the Programmable Solutions Group (formerly Altera). Prior to Intel, Howe spent 14 years […]
Dr. Jason Cong, co-founder of Falcon Computing Solutions, UCLA Chancellor’s Professor and Director of the Center for Customizable Domain-Specific Computing chaired the session on Heterogeneous Computing in Data Centers for Energy Efficiency at the recent ISLPED Conference in San Francisco, August 8th-10th, 2016 Dr. Peichen Pan from Falcon Computing Solutions presented an integrated solution that includes […]
On Oct. 7, Di Wu from Falcon Computing Solutions, Inc. presented the paper titled “Programming and Runtime Support to Blaze FPGA Accelerator Deployment at Datacenter Scale” in the 2016 ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC 2016), one of the top conferences in cloud computing. In the talk, Di discussed deploying FPGA at datacenter-scale using the […]
Falcon co-founder and UCLA Chancellor’s Professor Jason Cong (Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science), has been selected to receive the IEEE Computer Society 2016 Technical Achievement Award. The award is given for outstanding contributions in computer and information science and engineering. The society cited Cong […]