A Reconfigurable MapReduce accelerator for multi-core all-programmable SoCs

Phoenix MapReduce is a programming framework for multi-core systems that is used to automatically parallelize and schedule the programs based on the MapReduce framework. This paper presents a novel reconfigurable MapReduce accelerator that can be augmented to multi-core SoCs and it can speedup the indexing and the processing of the MapReduce key-value pairs. The proposed architecture is implemented, mapped and evaluated to an all-programmable SoC with two embedded ARM cores (Zynq FPGA). Depending on the MapReduce application requirements, the user can dynamically reconfigure the FPGA with the appropriate version of the MapReduce accelerator. The performance evaluation shows that the proposed scheme can achieve up to 2.3x overall performance improvement in MapReduce applications.