Integrating FPGAs: A dynamically reconfigurable FPGA-based grid for high performance computing

FPGA-based hybrid systems have shown several characteristics that make them very attractive for high performance computing (HPC). The two domains applications deployment capability, the impressive speed-up factors that they are able to achieve, the reduced power consumption, and the easiness and flexibility of the design process with fast iterations between consecutive versions are examples of benefits obtained with their used Along with these features dynamic reconfiguration is an added value that allows swapping in and out a component in run-time without to stop the FPGA. This talk will show an implementation of a complete grid infrastructure for distributed high performance computing based on dynamically reconfigurable FPGAs. Besides, a set of services designed to facilitate the application deployment will be described. An example application and a comparison with software implementations will be shown.