CI-ADDO-NEW: FPGA Accelerator Research Infrastructure Cloud (FAbRIC)

CI-ADDO-NEW：FPGA 加速器研究基础设施云 (FAbRIC)

• 批准号: 1205721
• 负责人: Derek Chiou
• 金额: $ 80万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-06-01 至 2018-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1205721&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CI; ADDO; NEW; FPGA; Accelerator

Reconfigurable hardware has tremendous potential in terms of performance and power efficiency. However, the high cost of tools needed to program such systems, and need to program at a very low level together put such systems out of reach of most researchers. The FAbRIC (FPGA Research Infrastructure Cloud) project will acquire and maintain such systems and their tools in the Texas Advanced Computing Center for open use by all researchers. In addition, the PIs will port our own reconfigurable hardware "operating systems" to the platforms to dramatically improve their usability and our own applications to serve as starting points for future work. Having an open, shared resource of this kind makes some of the highest performance computational power available to all researchers, regardless of their location or their ability to purchase and maintain such systems. The project team will run distributed classes for students and researchers to learn how to use such platforms. In addition, the default usage model of "open source to play" enables anyone who agrees to let the team open their source codes to use the facility free of charge. Such a shared platform with free industrial-strength tools and open sourced code finally enables true reproducibility of research results and the ability to leverage other work.

可重构硬件在性能和功率效率方面具有巨大的潜力。 然而，编程这种系统所需的工具的高成本，以及需要在非常低的水平上一起编程，使得大多数研究人员无法实现这种系统。 FAbRIC（FPGA研究基础设施云）项目将在德克萨斯州高级计算中心获取和维护此类系统及其工具，供所有研究人员开放使用。 此外，PI将把我们自己的可重新配置的硬件“操作系统”移植到平台上，以大大提高它们的可用性，并把我们自己的应用程序作为未来工作的起点。 拥有这种开放的共享资源，所有研究人员都可以获得最高性能的计算能力，无论他们的位置或购买和维护此类系统的能力如何。 项目团队将为学生和研究人员提供分布式课程，以学习如何使用这些平台。 此外，默认的使用模式“开源玩”使任何同意让团队开放其源代码的人都可以免费使用该设施。 这样一个具有免费工业强度工具和开源代码的共享平台最终实现了研究结果的真正可重复性和利用其他工作的能力。