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This chapter presents the technology developed in the context of European project ECOSCALE. It aims at contributing to the effort for a state-of-the-art platform that can satisfactorily serve applications in the context of High Performance Computing (HPC). ECOSCALE is a platform that comprises of both a novel software framework that allows users to introduce their applications described in OpenCL as well as an architecture that utilises reconfigurable hardware in order to execute at high speeds computationally-intensive tasks. The ECOSCALE platform proposes a framework with a number of functional and technological layers. ECOSCALE introduces the Worker that is the processing unit of its technology. It is effectively a single ECOSCALE FPGA featuring all elements required for a single computational node, i.e. a processing system, memory and reconfigurable logic. The computationally-intensive tasks are …