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

可重构硬件在性能和能效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，以及需要在一个非常低的层次上进行编程，使这种系统超出了大多数研究人员的能力。FAbRIC （FPGA研究基础架构云）项目将在德克萨斯高级计算中心获取和维护这些系统及其工具，供所有研究人员开放使用。此外，pi将把我们自己的可重构硬件“操作系统”移植到平台上，以显著提高它们的可用性，并将我们自己的应用程序作为未来工作的起点。拥有这样一个开放、共享的资源，所有研究人员都可以获得一些最高性能的计算能力，而不管他们的位置或购买和维护这些系统的能力如何。项目团队将为学生和研究人员开设分布式课程，学习如何使用这些平台。此外，默认的使用模式“开放源代码游戏”允许任何同意让团队开放源代码的人免费使用该设施。这样一个拥有免费的工业级工具和开放源代码的共享平台最终实现了研究结果的真正再现性，并能够利用其他工作。

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.