The FPGA High-Performance Computing Alliance Parallel Toolkit

We describe the FPGA HPC Alliance’s Parallel Toolkit (PTK), an initial step towards the standardization of high-level configuration and APIs for high-performance reconfigurable computing (HPRC). We discuss the motivation and challenges of reaping the performance benefits of FPGAs for memory-bound HPC codes and describe the approach we have taken on the FHPCA supercomputer Maxwell.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: AHS
• Authors: Robert Baxter, Stephen Booth, Mark Bull, Geoff Cawood, James Perry, Mark Parsons, Alan Simpson, Arthur Trew, Andrew McCormick, Graham Smart, Ronnie Smart, Allan Cantle, Richard Chamberlain, Gildas Genest
• Keywords: AHS 2007, Fhpca Supercomputer Maxwell, FPGA HPC Alliance, Hardware, Memory-bound Hpc Codes