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14th Annual IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM'06)
Hardware/Software Integration for FPGA-based All-Pairs Shortest-Paths
Napa, California
April 24-April 26
ISBN: 0-7695-2661-6
Uday Bondhugula, Ohio State University
Ananth Devulapalli, Ohio Supercomputer Center, Springfield
James Dinan, Ohio State University
Joseph Fernando, Ohio Supercomputer Center, Springfield
Pete Wyckoff, Ohio Supercomputer Center, Columbus, OH
Eric Stahlberg, Ohio Supercomputer Center, Columbus, OH
P. Sadayappan, Ohio State University
Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are being employed in high performance computing systems owing to their potential to accelerate a wide variety of long-running routines. Parallel FPGA-based designs often yield a very high speedup. Applications using these designs on reconfigurable supercomputers involve software on the system managing computation on the FPGA. To extract maximum performance from an FPGA design at the application level, it becomes necessary to minimize associated data movement costs on the system. We address this hardware/software integration challenge in the context of the All-Pairs Shortest-Paths (APSP) problem in a directed graph. We employ a parallel FPGA-based design using a blocked algorithm to solve large instances of APSP. With appropriate design choices and optimizations, experimental results on the Cray XD1 show that the FPGA-based implementation sustains an application-level speedup of 15 over an optimized CPU-based implementation.
Citation:
Uday Bondhugula , Ananth Devulapalli, James Dinan, Joseph Fernando, Pete Wyckoff, Eric Stahlberg, P. Sadayappan, "Hardware/Software Integration for FPGA-based All-Pairs Shortest-Paths," fccm, pp.152-164, 14th Annual IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM'06), 2006
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