A Multicore Architecture for High-Performance Scientific Computing Using FPGAs

Author

Cobos Carrascosa, J.P. ; Aparicio del Moral, B. ; Ramos, J.L. ; Lopez Jimenez, A.C. ; del Toro Iniesta, J.C.

Author_Institution

Inst. de Astrofis. de Andalucia, Consejo Super. de Investig. Cientificas, Granada, Spain

fYear

2014

fDate

23-25 Sept. 2014

Firstpage

223

Lastpage

228

Abstract

A multicomputer architecture is proposed in order to achieve high performance in floating point using FPGA devices. This architecture is used in the system prototype of an instrument that carries out a real-time scientific data analysis aboard the ESA´s Solar Or biter space mission. A novel method for parallelizing the scientific algorithm in multicore systems is developed. A software tool that automatizes the architecture design process and configuration is presented.

Keywords

astronomy computing; field programmable gate arrays; floating point arithmetic; multiprocessing systems; parallel architectures; scientific information systems; ESA Solar Orbiter space mission; FPGA devices; architecture design configuration automatization; architecture design process automatization; floating point; high-performance scientific computing; multicore architecture; real-time scientific data analysis; scientific algorithm parallelization; software tool; Field programmable gate arrays; Multicore processing; Pipeline processing; Ports (Computers); Program processors; Software algorithms; FPGA; MIMD; high-performance; multi-core; software pipelining;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Embedded Multicore/Manycore SoCs (MCSoc), 2014 IEEE 8th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Aizu-Wakamatsu

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MCSoC.2014.39

Filename

6949475