
Introduction to Reconfigurable Supercomputing
Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Published on 30. January 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
103 pages
978-1-60845-336-8 (ISBN)
Description
This book covers technologies, applications, tools, languages, procedures, advantages, and disadvantages of reconfigurable supercomputing using Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). The target audience is the community of users of High Performance Computers (HPC) who may benefit from porting their applications into a reconfigurable environment. As such, this book is intended to guide the HPC user through the many algorithmic considerations, hardware alternatives, usability issues, programming languages, and design tools that need to be understood before embarking on the creation of reconfigurable parallel codes. We hope to show that FPGA acceleration, based on the exploitation of the data parallelism, pipelining and concurrency remains promising in view of the diminishing improvements in traditional processor and system design.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
San Rafael
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 187 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-60845-336-8 (9781608453368)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
- FPGA Technology
- Reconfigurable Supercomputing
- Algorithmic Considerations
- FPGA Programming Languages
- Case Study: Sorting
- Alternative Technologies and Concluding Remarks
- Reconfigurable Supercomputing
- Algorithmic Considerations
- FPGA Programming Languages
- Case Study: Sorting
- Alternative Technologies and Concluding Remarks