Method and System for Accelerated Stream Processing

A method for making a compute resource network-connectable for configuring the compute resource to apply parallelism when processing streaming data, the streaming data comprising data arranged in a plurality of fields, the method comprising:

• providing a compute resource within a network, wherein the compute resource comprises a reconfigurable logic device or a graphics processor unit (GPU);
• and
• providing a communication path in the network for commanding the reconfigurable logic device or GPU to load a processing pipeline onto the reconfigurable logic device or GPU to configure the reconfigurable logic device or GPU for receiving and processing streaming data, the processing pipeline including a plurality of parallel paths, each of a plurality of the parallel paths including pipelined logic for performing different processing operations on the streaming data, and wherein each of a plurality of the parallel paths includes field selection logic that filters which fields of the streaming data that downstream pipelined logic in that parallel path will process, wherein a plurality of the parallel paths include field selection logic that filter for different fields of the streaming data so that the reconfigurable logic device or GPU is thereby configurable via the processing pipeline to parallel process different fields of the streaming data in different parallel paths with different processing operations