This can be very useful for reconfigurable computing, and may even completely replace present FPGA technology.
The US National Science Foundation has a center for high-performance reconfigurable computing (CHREC).
In reconfigurable computing and in supercomputing these terms refer to the data path width.
But Intel, for one, finds the concept sufficiently promising that last month the company held a conference on reconfigurable computing.
Mr. Singer was an early pioneer in reconfigurable computing.
Tredennick holds nine U.S. patents on subjects ranging from microprocessors to reconfigurable computing.
SRC Computers carried on development and now specializes in reconfigurable computing.
AMD's decision to open its HyperTransport technology to third-party vendors has become the enabling technology for high-performance reconfigurable computing.
It sounds like you're looking for "reconfigurable computing", where FPGAs are dynamically reconfigured to act as co-processors for domain-specific tasks.
Hardware designer (when using reconfigurable computing)