A new parallel processing paradigm using a reconfigurable computing system

This work proposes a new parallel processing paradigm using a reconfigurable computing system. In proposed system, an application program is parallelized statically into threads. They are translated to hardware threads, and then, they are executed by a reconfigurable computing system directly. The hardware threads cooperate with a high-speed synchronization using tags on the reconfigurable device. To evaluate the effect of a parallel processing and the performance impact of synchronization, we have performed the preliminary experiments using some application programs on a real machine. The result shows that extracting parallelisms improves the performance of 1.37 times at average. The low-overhead communication and synchronization on the reconfigurable device can achieve good performance improvement on a parallel processing.