Applications and Programming Models for Large-Scale Heterogeneous Computing with FPGAs

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As we enter into the era of the Cloud and the Internet of Things (IoT), issues around the power and performance of computing are becoming ever more important. Computing using microprocessors is still the mainstay of all forms of computing but microprocessors are no longer enough because they are not always the most efficient in terms of power or performance. As a result, non-traditional computing approaches are being explored with more urgency. The acquisition of Altera by Intel in 2015 for USD$16.7B has woken up the world to the benefits of using Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), but also made the computing world more heterogeneous. For many applications, FPGAs can provide both a performance benefit and do it with lower power requirements. The problem is that they are difficult to use. The motivation and challenge of our work is to make FPGAs accessible by all application developers. This proposal focuses on the exploration of programming models and driving applications for using distributed FPGAs in high-performance computing, but many of the techniques can also be applied at the other end of the computing spectrum in the IOT world.