Reconfiguring Distributed Applications in FPGA Accelerated Cluster with Wireless Networking

Xin Yu Niu, Kuen Hung Tsoi, Wayne Luk
2011 2011 21st International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications  
FPGA accelerators are capable of improving computation and energy efficiency of many applications targeting a cluster of machines. In this work, we focus on an FPGA accelerated cluster system modified with a wireless network. Comparing with conventional Ethernet based approaches, the proposed system with wireless networking enables a lightweight and efficient method for the FPGA devices to exchange information directly. Customisable monitoring facilities are developed to support changing a
more » ... ibuted application dynamically at run time. The N-Body simulation application is used to demonstrate the effectiveness and potential of the proposed system. Experiments show that this approach can achieve up to 4.2 times improvement in latency. By applying the proposed inter-FPGA wireless network to the N-Body application, we achieve enhanced power efficiency while fulfilling thermal constraints in all nodes.
doi:10.1109/fpl.2011.106 dblp:conf/fpl/NiuTL11 fatcat:zqrylfmni5bizfw6jksihpovzm