Reconfigure.io
Easily build, test and deploy your code to FPGAs in the cloud with Go.
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Reconfigure.io, founded in 2015 by Rob Taylor, operated as a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) designed to simplify the use of hardware accelerator technologies, specifically FPGAs (Field-Programmable Gate Arrays). The company, which was also known as Nerabus, was headquartered in Manchester, UK. The firm's primary offering was a cloud computing platform that allowed software developers, particularly those using the Go programming language, to deploy and run code on FPGAs as easily as deploying to traditional servers. This service aimed to significantly boost computing performance, with potential increases of 10 to 100 times, for data-intensive applications in sectors like virtual reality, big data, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.
Founder and CEO Rob Taylor, a University of Cambridge computer science alumnus and serial entrepreneur, brought extensive experience from co-founding companies like Collabora Ltd and holding leadership roles at technology firms such as Arm and Codethink. His background in open-source software and high-performance computing directly informed the company's mission to make hardware acceleration more accessible to the broader engineering market. Reconfigure.io targeted application programmers and enterprise clients struggling with the performance limitations of traditional IT systems in handling massive data growth. The business model was centered on providing its platform as a service, enabling developers to accelerate their applications without needing deep hardware expertise.
Throughout its operation, Reconfigure.io established early-stage partnerships with industry leaders including IBM, Xilinx, and Rackspace. The company secured a seed funding round in October 2016 from angel investors across the UK, Switzerland, and the US, raising approximately $238K. This was followed by an early-stage venture capital round in November 2017. Despite its efforts and early traction, the company ceased operations, as indicated by a filing on December 20, 2022.
Keywords: Reconfigure.io, hardware acceleration, FPGA, platform-as-a-service, PaaS, cloud computing, high-performance computing, Go programming language, Rob Taylor, compute acceleration, big data processing, AI acceleration, machine learning infrastructure, enterprise computing, Nerabus, Collabora, Codethink, Xilinx partnership, IBM partnership, venture capital