Network-attached FPGAs for data center applications

J Weerasinghe, R Polig, F Abel… - … Conference on Field …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) are making their way into data centers (DC). They
are used as accelerators to boost the compute power of individual server nodes and to …

An FPGA platform for hyperscalers

F Abel, J Weerasinghe, C Hagleitner… - 2017 IEEE 25th …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) are making their way into data centers (DC). They
are used as accelerators to boost the compute power of individual server nodes and to …

Analyzing the energy-efficiency of sparse matrix multiplication on heterogeneous systems: A comparative study of GPU, Xeon Phi and FPGA

H Giefers, P Staar, C Bekas… - 2016 IEEE International …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Hardware accelerators have evolved as the most prominent vehicle to meet the demanding
performance and energy-efficiency constraints of modern computer systems. The prevalent …

Disaggregated FPGAs: Network performance comparison against bare-metal servers, virtual machines and linux containers

J Weerasinghe, F Abel, C Hagleitner… - … Conference on Cloud …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) are making their way into data centers (DC). They
are used as accelerators to boost the compute power of individual server nodes and to …

Sparse matrix multiplication using a single field programmable gate array module

C Bekas, A Curioni, H Giefers, C Hagleitner… - US Patent …, 2017 - Google Patents
According to some embodiments, a computer-implemented method for performing sparse
matrix dense matrix (SpMM) multiplication on a single field programmable gate array (FPGA) …

Accelerating arithmetic kernels with coherent attached FPGA coprocessors

H Giefers, R Polig, C Hagleitner - 2015 Design, Automation & …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The energy efficiency of computer systems can be increased by migrating computational
kernels that are known to under-utilize the CPU to an FPGA based coprocessor. In contrast …

[HTML][HTML] Optimizing the Performance of the Sparse Matrix–Vector Multiplication Kernel in FPGA Guided by the Roofline Model

F Favaro, E Dufrechou, JP Oliver, P Ezzatti - Micromachines, 2023 - mdpi.com
The widespread adoption of massively parallel processors over the past decade has
fundamentally transformed the landscape of high-performance computing hardware. This …

Sparse matrix multiplication using a single field programmable gate array module

C Bekas, A Curioni, H Giefers, C Hagleitner… - US Patent …, 2020 - Google Patents
According to some embodiments, a computer-implemented method for performing sparse
matrix dense matrix (SpMM) multiplication on a single field programmable gate array (FPGA) …

Exploring functional acceleration of OpenCL on FPGAs and GPUs through platform-independent optimizations

UI Minhas, R Woods, G Karakonstantis - International symposium on …, 2018 - Springer
OpenCL has been proposed as a means of accelerating functional computation using FPGA
and GPU accelerators. Although it provides ease of programmability and code portability …

Freac cache: Folded-logic reconfigurable computing in the last level cache

A Dhar, X Wang, H Franke, J Xiong… - 2020 53rd Annual …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The need for higher energy efficiency has resulted in the proliferation of accelerators across
platforms, with custom and reconfigurable accelerators adopted in both edge devices and …