System architecture for network-attached FPGAs in the cloud using partial reconfiguration
Ringlein B, Abel F, Ditter A, Weiss B, Hagleitner C, Fey D (2019)
Publication Type: Conference contribution
Publication year: 2019
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages Range: 293-300
Conference Proceedings Title: Proceedings - 29th International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications, FPL 2019
Event location: Barcelona
ISBN: 9781728148847
Abstract
Emerging applications such as deep neural networks, bioinformatics or video encoding impose a high computing pressure on the Cloud. Reconfigurable technologies like Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) can handle such compute-intensive workloads in an efficient and performant way. To seamlessly incorporate FPGAs into existing Cloud environments and leverage their full power efficiency, FPGAs should be directly attached to the data center network and operate independent of power-hungry CPUs. This raises new questions about resource management, application deployment and network integrity. We present a system architecture for managing a large number of network-attached FPGAs in an efficient, flexible and scalable way. To ensure the integrity of the infrastructure, we use partial reconfiguration to separate the non-privileged user logic from the privileged system logic. To create a really scalable and agile cloud service, the management of all resources builds on the Representational State Transfer (REST) concept.
Authors with CRIS profile
Alexander Ditter
Lehrstuhl für Informatik 3 (Rechnerarchitektur)
Dietmar Fey
Lehrstuhl für Informatik 3 (Rechnerarchitektur)
Involved external institutions
Switzerland (CH)How to cite
APA:
Ringlein, B., Abel, F., Ditter, A., Weiss, B., Hagleitner, C., & Fey, D. (2019). System architecture for network-attached FPGAs in the cloud using partial reconfiguration. In Ioannis Sourdis, Christos-Savvas Bouganis, Carlos Alvarez, Leonel Antonio Toledo Diaz, Pedro Valero, Xavier Martorell (Eds.), Proceedings - 29th International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications, FPL 2019 (pp. 293-300). Barcelona, ES: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc..
MLA:
Ringlein, Burkhard, et al. "System architecture for network-attached FPGAs in the cloud using partial reconfiguration." Proceedings of the 29th International Conferenceon Field-Programmable Logic and Applications, FPL 2019, Barcelona Ed. Ioannis Sourdis, Christos-Savvas Bouganis, Carlos Alvarez, Leonel Antonio Toledo Diaz, Pedro Valero, Xavier Martorell, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2019. 293-300.
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