Paper Info
Title
Enabling Flexible Network FPGA Clusters in a Heterogeneous Cloud Data Center.
Abstract
We present a framework for creating network FPGA clusters in a heterogeneous cloud data center. The FPGA clusters are created using a logical kernel description describing how a group of FPGA kernels are to be connected (independent of which FPGA these kernels are on), and an FPGA mapping file. The kernels within a cluster can be replicated with simple directives within this framework. The FPGAs can communicate to any other network device in the data center, including CPUs, GPUs, and IoT devices (such as sensors). This heterogeneous cloud manages these devices with the use of OpenStack. We observe that our infrastructure is limited due to the physical infrastructure such as the 1~Gb Ethernet connection. Our framework however can be ported to other physical infrastructures. We tested our infrastructure with a database acceleration application. This application was replicated six times across three FPGAs within our cluster and we observed a throughput increase of six times as this scaled linearly. Our framework generates the OpenStack calls needed to reserve the compute devices, creates the network connections (and retrieve MAC addresses), generate the bitstreams, programs the devices, and configure the devices with the appropriate MAC addresses, creating a ready-to-use network device that can interact with any other network device in the data center.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1145/3020078.3021742
FPGA
Field
DocType
Citations 
Virtualization,Computer science,Parallel computing,Networking hardware,Field-programmable gate array,Real-time computing,Ethernet,Porting,Throughput,Data center,Cloud computing,Embedded system
Conference
10
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.75
4
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Naif Tarafdar1445.14
Thomas Lin2658.21
Eric Fukuda3100.75
Hadi Bannazadeh425029.96
Alberto Leon-Garcia5346.33
Paul Chow6868119.97