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RP-Ring: A Heterogeneous Multi-FPGA Accelerator
Joint Authors
Wang, Tianqi
Jin, Xi
Guo, Shuaizhi
Tao, Linfeng
Tian, Teng
Xiang, Zikun
Source
International Journal of Reconfigurable Computing
Issue
Vol. 2018, Issue 2018 (31 Dec. 2018), pp.1-14, 14 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2018-04-04
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
14
Main Subjects
Information Technology and Computer Science
Abstract EN
To reduce the cost of designing new specialized FPGA boards as direct-summation MOND (Modified Newtonian Dynamics) simulator, we propose a new heterogeneous architecture with existing FPGA boards, which is called RP-ring (reconfigurable processor ring).
This design can be expanded conveniently with any available FPGA board and only requires quite low communication bandwidth between FPGA boards.
The communication protocol is simple and can be implemented with limited hardware/software resources.
In order to avoid overall performance loss caused by the slowest board, we build a mathematical model to decompose workload among FPGAs.
The dividing of workload is based on the logic resource, memory access bandwidth, and communication bandwidth of each FPGA chip.
Our accelerator can achieve two orders of magnitude speedup compared with CPU implementation.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Guo, Shuaizhi& Wang, Tianqi& Tao, Linfeng& Tian, Teng& Xiang, Zikun& Jin, Xi. 2018. RP-Ring: A Heterogeneous Multi-FPGA Accelerator. International Journal of Reconfigurable Computing،Vol. 2018, no. 2018, pp.1-14.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
Guo, Shuaizhi…[et al.]. RP-Ring: A Heterogeneous Multi-FPGA Accelerator. International Journal of Reconfigurable Computing No. 2018 (2018), pp.1-14.
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American Medical Association (AMA)
Guo, Shuaizhi& Wang, Tianqi& Tao, Linfeng& Tian, Teng& Xiang, Zikun& Jin, Xi. RP-Ring: A Heterogeneous Multi-FPGA Accelerator. International Journal of Reconfigurable Computing. 2018. Vol. 2018, no. 2018, pp.1-14.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1175527
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1175527