ADVANCED HIGH-PERFORMANCE RECONFIGURABLE COMPUTERS WITH IMMERSION COOLING

Mapping Floating-Point Kernels onto High Performance Reconfigurable Computers

Contemporary field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) combine the fine-grained design capability of the traditional lookup table with the speed of medium-scale and large-scale logic components such as RAM blocks or DSP blocks to provide for significant computational capability from a single FPGA. High performance reconfigurable computers, which typically use FPGAs as computational elements, have ...

Accelerating Genomic Sequence Alignment using High Performance Reconfigurable Computers

Reconfigurable computing technology has progressed to a stage where it is now possible to achieve orders of magnitude performance and power efficiency gains over conventional computer architectures for a subset of high performance computing applications. In this thesis, we investigate the potential of reconfigurable computers to accelerate genomic sequence alignment specifically for genome sequ...

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High-Level-Language Compilation for Reconfigurable Computers

The compiler COMRADE accepts full ANSI C and compiles it into hybrid hardware/software applications for execution on a reconfigurable adaptive computer system. After defining the model-of-computation underlying the flow, we describe the general compilation process as well as some specific techniques. These include path-based partitioning, module-generator based datapath and controller synthesis...

Evaluating high-performance computers

Comparisons of high-performance computers based on their peak floating point performance are common but seldom useful when comparing performance on real workloads. Factors that influence sustained performance extend beyond a system’s floating-point units, and real applications exercise machines in complex and diverse ways. Even when it is possible to compare systems based on their performance, ...