The “Chimera” An OffTheShelf CPUGPGPUFPGA Hybrid“嵌合体”现成的cpugpgpufpga混合.pptxVIP

The “Chimera”: An Off-The-Shelf CPU/GPGPU/FPGA HybridComputing Platform Publication: Ra Inta, David J. Bowman, and Susan M. Scott. Int. J. Reconfig. Comput. 2012, Article 2 (January 2012), 1 pages. DOI=10.1155/2012/241439? Naveen R. Iyer Kowshick Boddu 1 Paper’s focus Viable alternative solution to many common computationally bound problems (Astronomical) Analyse the bottleneck of the CPU which limits the performance (interconnects). Speculate the merits of HCS (Chimera) 2 Heterogeneous Computing System Need for Hardware accelerators - Astronomical problem exhibit a substantial computational bound. What is HCS? - CPU/GPGPU/FPGA desktop computing system built from COT elements 3 Need for HCS in Astronomical Data Analysis Universe is expanding homogeneity of the microwave background strong evidence for the existence of dark matter and dark energy - significant computational bound and would not have been possible without a breakthrough in data analysis techniques 4 Problems with existing HPC the most powerful HPC systems (the “Top 500”) were purely CPU based power consumption, and hence heat generation, is proportional to clock speed, processors have begun to hit the so-called “speed wall” traditional HPC systems: over half the lifetime cost of a modern supercomputer is spent on electrical power 5 CPU Vs Hardware accelerators Many embarrassingly parallel computations rely on linear algebraic operations that are a perfect match for a GPU. This, in addition to the amount of high level support, such as C for CUDA, means they have become adopted as the hardware accelerator of choice by many data analysts. FPGAs were found to be faster by a factor of 15 and 60 over a contemporaneous GPU and CPU resp.), video processing FPGA implementation of Quasi-Random Monte Carlo outperforms a CPU version by two orders of magnitude and beats a contemporaneous GPU by a factor of three), 6 Need f