Name
Title | ||
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A data-driven approach for executing the CG method on reconfigurable high-performance systems |
Abstract | ||
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Employing reconfigurable computing systems for numerical applications poses an interesting and promising approach toward increased performance. We study the applicability of the Convey HC-1 for numerical applications by decomposing a preconditioned conjugate gradient (CG) method into several independent kernels that can operate concurrently. To allow overlapped execution and to minimize data transfers, we stream the data between the kernel units using a central buffer set. A microprogrammable control unit orchestrates memory accesses, buffer writes/reads and kernel execution, and allows for further algorithms to be executedon the available kernel units. Solving the Poisson problem can thereby be accelerated up to 10 times compared to a single-threaded software version on the HC-1 and up to 1.2 times compared to a 2-socket hex-core Intel Xeon Westmere system with 24 hardware threads for large problem sizes with only a single application engine. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2013 | 10.1007/978-3-642-36424-2_15 | ARCS |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
large problem size,kernel unit,available kernel unit,independent kernel,convey hc-1,poisson problem,kernel execution,numerical application,central buffer set,data-driven approach,cg method,data transfer,reconfigurable high-performance system | Memory bandwidth,Computer science,Task parallelism,Parallel computing,Stencil code,Real-time computing,Thread (computing),Direct memory access,Control unit,Xeon,Reconfigurable computing | Conference |
Volume | ISSN | Citations |
7767 | 0302-9743 | 1 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.36 | 11 | 5 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fabian Nowak | 1 | 39 | 6.52 |
| Ingo Besenfelder | 2 | 1 | 0.36 |
| Wolfgang Karl | 3 | 372 | 34.84 |
| Mareike Schmidtobreick | 4 | 10 | 1.70 |
| Vincent Heuveline | 5 | 179 | 30.51 |