TY - GEN
T1 - Accelerating scientific applications with the SRC-6 reconfigurable computer
T2 - 19th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2005
AU - Smith, Melissa C.
AU - Vetter, Jeffery S.
AU - Liang, Xuejun
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - Reconfigurable computing offers the promise of performing computations in hardware to increase performance and efficiency while retaining much of the flexibility of a software solution. Recently, the capacities of reconfigurable computing devices, like field programmable gate arrays, have risen to levels that make it possible to execute 64b floating-point operations, SRC Computers has designed the SRC-6 MAP station to blend the benefits of commodity processors with the benefits of reconfigurable computing. In this paper, we describe our effort to accelerate the performance of several scientific applications on the SRC-6. We describe our methodology, analysis, and results. Our early evaluation demonstrates that the SRC-6 provides a unique software stack that is applicable to many scientific solutions and our experiments reveal the performance benefits of the system.
AB - Reconfigurable computing offers the promise of performing computations in hardware to increase performance and efficiency while retaining much of the flexibility of a software solution. Recently, the capacities of reconfigurable computing devices, like field programmable gate arrays, have risen to levels that make it possible to execute 64b floating-point operations, SRC Computers has designed the SRC-6 MAP station to blend the benefits of commodity processors with the benefits of reconfigurable computing. In this paper, we describe our effort to accelerate the performance of several scientific applications on the SRC-6. We describe our methodology, analysis, and results. Our early evaluation demonstrates that the SRC-6 provides a unique software stack that is applicable to many scientific solutions and our experiments reveal the performance benefits of the system.
KW - Performance Analysis
KW - Reconfigurable Computing
KW - Scientific Applications
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=33746273833&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/IPDPS.2005.75
DO - 10.1109/IPDPS.2005.75
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:33746273833
SN - 0769523129
SN - 0769523129
SN - 9780769523125
T3 - Proceedings - 19th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2005
SP - 157b
BT - Proceedings - 19th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2005
Y2 - 4 April 2005 through 8 April 2005
ER -