We describe the FPGA HPC Alliance?s Parallel Toolkit (PTK), an initial step towards the standardization of high-level configuration and APIs for high-performance reconfigurable computing (HPRC). We discuss the motivation and challenges of reaping the performance benefits of FPGAs for memory-bound HPC codes and describe the approach we have taken on the FHPCA supercomputer Maxwell.
Citation:
Rob Baxter, Stephen Booth, Mark Bull, Geoff Cawood, James Perry, Mark Parsons, Alan Simpson, Arthur Trew, Andrew McCormick, Graham Smart, Ronnie Smart, Allan Cantle, Richard Chamberlain, Gildas Genest, "The FPGA High-Performance Computing Alliance Parallel Toolkit," ahs, pp.301-310, Second NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems (AHS 2007), 2007