Successful FPGA Programming Methods and Tools for HPC

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Wednesday, June 30, 2021 3:00 PM to 3:35 PM · 35 min. (Africa/Abidjan)
Extreme Heterogeneity

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In the past four years, FPGAs have gone from niche components to a central part of many data centers worldwide. But while use cases often match those of traditional accelerators (e.g., AWS), most of the millions of newly deployed FPGAs are in other configurations such as smart NICs, bump-in-the-wire, and storage architectures. While it is generally agreed that what has prevented more widespread use of FPGAs as traditional HPC accelerators is programmability, vendors and the wider community have recently made tremendous progress, and FPGAs for general HPC is apparently within reach. This BOF has two parts. The first is a series of lightning talks presenting new tools and methods for programmer productivity, including languages, models, optimizers, and environments. The second part of the BOF will be a general discussion driven by the interests of the attendees, potentially including additional topics. The goal is to identify best practices that could become the basis for standards. All session leaders have strong experience in HPC and reconfigurable/FPGA computing. We will select speakers from session leaders and leading experts in academia, government, and industry. Audience participation is a key success metric of this BOF, and more than half the time has been allocated for discussion.

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