Title :
The FPGA High-Performance Computing Alliance Parallel Toolkit
Author :
Baxter, Rob ; Booth, Stephen ; Bull, Mark ; Cawood, Geoff ; Perry, James ; Parsons, Mark ; Simpson, Alan ; Trew, Arthur ; McCormick, Andrew ; Smart, Graham ; Smart, Ronnie ; Cantle, Allan ; Chamberlain, Richard ; Genest, Gildas
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Edinburgh, Edinburgh
Abstract :
We describe the FPGA HPC Alliance´s parallel toolkit (PTK), an initial step towards the standardization of high-level configuration and APIs for high-performance reconfigurable computing (HPRC). We discuss the motivation and challenges of reaping the performance benefits of FPGAs for memory-bound HPC codes and describe the approach we have taken on the FHPCA supercomputer Maxwell.
Keywords :
application program interfaces; field programmable gate arrays; API; FPGA high-performance computing Alliance parallel toolkit; high-level configuration; memory-bound HPC codes; Acceleration; Code standards; Concurrent computing; Content management; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; High performance computing; Resource management; Standardization; Supercomputers;
Conference_Titel :
Adaptive Hardware and Systems, 2007. AHS 2007. Second NASA/ESA Conference on
Conference_Location :
Edinburgh
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-2866-3
DOI :
10.1109/AHS.2007.104
