Accelerating real-world applications on novel multi-FPGA platforms

OPTIMA’s main goal is to prove that there are several HPC applications that can take advantage of the emerging highly heterogeneous FPGA-populated HPC systems while, by using state-of-the-art tools and runtimes, the application development and optimization on such systems can be almost as simple as developing software for conventional HPC systems that incorporate GPUs. Special emphasis has been given to the efficient processing of both conventional HPC applications (e.g. Fluid Dynamics, Underground Simulations, etc.) as well as to more recently introduced machine/deep learning ones.

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Contributors:

• Andreas Herten (Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH)
• Iakovos Mavroidis (Telecommunication Systems Institute)
• Manuel Arenaz (Appentra Solutions)
• Valeria Bartsch (Fraunhofer ITWM)
• Tobias Becker (Maxeler)
• Fani Garcia (Appentra Solutions)
• Konstantinos Georgopoulos (Telecommunication Systems Institute)
• Yannick Goumaz (Cyberbotics)
• Kostas Harteros (EXAPSYS)
• Aggelos Ioannou (EXAPSYS)
• Giovanni Isotton (M3E)
• Albert Kahira (Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH)
• Pavlos Malakonakis (Telecommunication Systems Institute)
• Olivier Michel, (Cyberbotics)
• Ioannis Papaefstathiou (EXAPSYS)
• Gino Perna (EnginSoft)
• Dionisios Pnevmatikatos (ICCS)
• Dimitris Theodoropoulos (ICCS)
• Elisa Thiel (Fraunhofer ITWM)
• Marisa Zanotti (EnginSoft)