Paper Info
Title
Computing Framework for Dynamic Integration of Reconfigurable Resources in a Cloud
Abstract
Integrating FPGAs into clouds or data centers allows easy access to such reconfigurable resources and provides a promising opportunity to improve both performance and energy efficiency of such systems. Although currently the use of FPGAs as hardware accelerators and especially in clouds is mainly a topic of research, the integration of reconfigurable virtualized resources will become a task of growing importance in the future. We developed a cloud management and hypervisor system called RC3E providing FPGA resources as a service. This paper introduces a computing framework which extends our hypervisor and allows multiple (virtual) user designs on a single physical FPGA. The communication between host and FPGA is implemented by a communication API on the host and the integration of high-level synthesis (HLS) to accelerate applications. We demonstrate the usability of our framework by implementing a sample user design on an FPGA and measuring the performance with up to four simultaneous virtual user designs.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/DSD.2015.37
Euromicro Symposium on Digital Systems Design
Keywords
Field
DocType
Cloud Computing, Field Programmable Gate Arrays, High-Level Synthesis, Virtualization
Virtualization,Cloud management,Storage hypervisor,Computer science,High-level synthesis,Parallel computing,Hypervisor,Real-time computing,Utility computing,Reconfigurable computing,Cloud computing,Embedded system
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.37
20
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Oliver Knodel1122.69
Rainer G. Spallek213725.30