Scalable Heterogeneous Programmable Reconfigurable
Computing
Contributor
Event Type
Emerging Technologies
TimeThursday, November 16th10am -
6pm
Location401
DescriptionMulti-FPGA acceleration has already shown several
orders of magnitude speedups in today's analytics,
scientific, financial, image processing and machine
learning applications. However, the scalability of
FPGA-based HPC demanded by the future avalanche of data
and network traffic is still in its infancy. OpenCL
memory model holds the promise of straightforward and
pragmatic scalability of FPGA computing beyond single
FPGA within the framework of today's OpenCL FPGA
compilers. Scientific Concepts International develops
novel Smart Cell Interconnect (SCI(tm)) optimized for
OpenCL global memory, streaming data accesses and
network packets encapsulated into switched cells. Recent
advances in Open Source tools based on polyhedral model
and IR enable development of source-to-source coarse
grain code and data partitioning of the HPC workloads
written initially in OpenCL and followed by C/C++, SYCL.
Evolution of the multi-FPGA partitioning tools and SCI
interconnect IP will enable true scalability of the
computing fabric of arrays and clusters of FPGAs. Cloud
FPGA computing, fog computing at the source of the
generated data as well as fusion of networking,
security, and computing are addressed by our
Heterogeneous Programmable Reconfigurable Computing
(HPRC(tm)) architecture, SCI(tm) interconnect and
partitioner tools.
