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An Extensible Framework for Application Portability Between Reconfigurable Supercomputer Architectures
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Moore, Nicholas Conti, Albert Leeser, Miriam Cordes, Benjamin |
| Copyright Year | 2006 |
| Abstract | This paper presents Vforce, an extensible framework for developing portable reconfigurable supercomputer applications. Reconfigurable supercomputer architectures are based on classic multi-node parallel computing but also include nodes that can include FPGA hardware in addition to (or instead of) standard microprocessors. The Vforce framework, based on the object-oriented VSIPL++ standard, encapsulates hardware-specific implementations behind a standard API, thus insulating application-level code from hardware-specific details. The same application code can run on different reconfigurable supercomputers with no change. Coarse-grained parallelism can be implemented at the application level; fine-grained parallelism can be implemented within the hardware-specific implementation. Furthermore, Vforce is expandable to permit new reconfigurable supercomputing hardware architectures to be targeted with no change to application code. In this paper, we briefly survey the reconfigurable supercomputing landscape, discuss the Vforce framework and related work, and describe applications and results from using Vforce for application development. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.ece.neu.edu/~aconti/albertcontihome/files/LeeserVSIPL_computer_submit.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
