Introduction to Reconfigurable Supercomputing (Synthesis Lectures on Computer Architecture, 9) - Softcover

Lanzagorta, Marco; Bique, Stephen; Rosenberg, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1608453367 ISBN 13: 9781608453368

Publisher: Morgan and Claypool Publishers, 2010

Synopsis

This book covers technologies, applications, tools, languages, procedures, advantages, and disadvantages of reconfigurable supercomputing using Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). The target audience is the community of users of High Performance Computers (HPC) who may benefit from porting their applications into a reconfigurable environment. As such, this book is intended to guide the HPC user through the many algorithmic considerations, hardware alternatives, usability issues, programming languages, and design tools that need to be understood before embarking on the creation of reconfigurable parallel codes. We hope to show that FPGA acceleration, based on the exploitation of the data parallelism, pipelining and concurrency remains promising in view of the diminishing improvements in traditional processor and system design. Table of Contents: FPGA Technology / Reconfigurable Supercomputing / Algorithmic Considerations / FPGA Programming Languages / Case Study: Sorting / Alternative Technologies and Concluding Remarks

Edition details

• Publisher: Morgan and Claypool Publishers
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1608453367
• ISBN 13: 9781608453368
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 104