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

[Shirley Entzminger]

  	NOTE:	Friday, May 6th -- CRIBB SEMINAR CANCELLED...


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SEMINAR CANCELLED...


  		    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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