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Fpga based acceleration of a particle simulation high performance. The designer can also combine them to form a hybrid model to meet the. Highperformance computing using fpga covers the area of high. We focus on very highperformance interfpga communication capabilities. Advancements in silicon, software, and ip have proven xilinx fpgas to be the ideal solution for accelerating applications on highperformance embedded computers and servers.
Revisiting the highperformance reconfigurable computing. Highperformance computing using fpgas springerlink. Th e ready availability and highpower efficiency of highdensity fpgas make th em attractive to the hpc community. Efficient fpga implementation of opencl highperformance. High performance computer systems are very important in the field of computational science. High performance computing with fpgas ugent biblio. Other than for strictly personal use, it is not permitted to download, forward or. Both device families allow one to merge an addition with some compu.
This book provides an overview of architectures, tools and applications for highperformance reconfigurable computing hprc. Gpus by using an fpgaspecific opencl programming style and utilizing a variety. High performance computing with fpgas and opencl arxiv. When the same data is used in adjacent loops, it is useful to merge the loops such that. It would seem that hpc is an unlikely target for fpgas, as the fpga with all of its. This book is concerned with the emerging field of high performance reconfigurable computing hprc, which aims to harness the high performance and relative low power of reconfigurable hardwarein the form field programmable gate arrays fpgas in high performance computing hpc applications. Database acceleration on fpgas tu delft research information. This book provides an overview of architectures, tools and applications for high. Proceedings of the international conference for high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis evaluating and optimizing opencl kernels for high performance computing with fpgas. These highperformance computing clusters are populated with up to 256 xilinx spartan or virtex fpgas per system and can be interconnected to form an even larger system with 2,560 fpga per rack. Highperformance computing using fpga covers the area of high performance reconfigurable computing hprc. Highperformance computing using fpgas, springer, 20.
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