Title :
Combining data and computation transformations for fine-grain reconfigurable architectures
Author :
Oliveira, Cristiano B. ; Marques, Eduardo
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Math. & Comput. Sci., Univ. of Sao Paulo, Sao Carlos, Brazil
Abstract :
This paper presents a project that aims to develop techniques for optimal code generation for High Performance Computing using reconfigurable hardware. Some problems faced are related to memory access, since the latency for data reading and writing became a bottleneck for HPC applications. The project is a branch of a system for hardware acceleration in HPC applications currently being developed at University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. This system intends to facilitate the development of HPC architectures for efficiently exploit of parallelism.
Keywords :
memory architecture; parallel architectures; program compilers; reconfigurable architectures; Brazil; HPC applications; HPC architectures; University of Sao Paulo; computation transformations; data reading; data writing; fine-grain reconfigurable architectures; hardware acceleration; high performance computing; memory access; optimal code generation; Computers; Educational institutions; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Memory management; Optimization;
Conference_Titel :
Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL), 2012 22nd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Oslo
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2257-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2255-3
DOI :
10.1109/FPL.2012.6339180