FPGAs for Supercomputing? Progress and Challenges
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Event Type
Workshop
TimeFriday, November 17th12pm -
12:30pm
Location402-403-404
DescriptionField-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) have become
keystones of our modern electronics ecosystem. Despite
higher-end components possessing immense processing
power, however, FPGAs are rarely employed as
general-purpose computational accelerators. In this
talk, I'll discuss why FPGAs seem attractive as HPC
accelerators and our experience experimenting with
different kinds of algorithms on FPGAs. Finally, I'll
share some thoughts on how common HPC programming models
and environments can be adapted to support FPGAs, and
moreover, how partial reconfigurability and combined
CPU/FPGA packages can be leveraged to make this
easier.
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