[Crib-list] SPEAKER: Martin Herbordt (Boston University) -- CRIBB Seminar - Friday, May 6, 2016 at 12:00 Noon in STATA - Building 32, Room 124

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 		    COMPUTATIONAL RESEARCH in BOSTON and BEYOND SEMINAR


DATE:		Friday, May 6, 2016

TIME:		12:00 Noon to 1:00 PM

LOCATION:	Building 32, Room 124

 	Pizza provided at 11:45 AM outside Room 32-124


TITLE:		Scalable High Performance Computing with FPGA-based
 		clusters:   Is it (finally) time for FPGAs in HPC?


SPEAKER:	Martin Herbordt  (Boston University)


ABSTRACT:

The acquisition of Altera by Intel and the deployment by Microsoft of 
FPGAs in the Cloud indicate that widespread use of FPGAs for High 
Performance Computing may (finally) have arrived.  This talk has two 
parts.  In the first part we describe our work with FPGA-centric clusters 
with direct and programmable interconnects.  These systems address 
fundamental limits on HPC performance by maximizing computational density, 
minimizing power, removing the bottleneck between processing and 
communication, and facilitating intelligent and application-aware 
processing in the network itself.  For example, knowing the routing 
pattern a priori often enables congestion-free communication.  We describe 
our 128-node publicly available cluster, Novo-G#, its software and IP 
infrastructure, and strong scaling of communication-bound applications 
such as long time-scale Molecular Dynamics.  In the second part we discuss 
general issues such as prospects for FPGA-based HPC in the Cloud, 
programmability, integration with standard middleware, and potential 
applications.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA


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