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abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: "Although the benefits of FPGAs for accelerating scientific codes are widely
    acknowledged, the use of FPGA accelerators in scientific computing is not widespread
    because reaping these benefits requires knowledge of hardware design methods and
    tools that is typically not available with domain scientists. A promising but
    hardly investigated approach is to develop tool flows that keep the common languages
    for scientific code (C,C++, and Fortran) and allow the developer to augment the
    source code with OpenMPlike directives for instructing the compiler which parts
    of the application shall be offloaded the FPGA accelerator.\r\nIn this work we
    study whether the promise of effective FPGA acceleration with an OpenMP-like programming
    effort\r\ncan actually be held. Our target system is the Convey HC-1 reconfigurable
    computer for which an OpenMP-like\r\nprogramming environment exists. As case study
    we use an application from computational nanophotonics. Our results\r\nshow that
    a developer without previous FPGA experience could create an FPGA-accelerated
    application that is competitive to an optimized OpenMP-parallelized CPU version
    running on a two socket quad-core server. Finally, we discuss our experiences
    with this tool flow and the Convey HC-1 from a productivity and economic point
    of view."
author:
- first_name: Björn
  full_name: Meyer, Björn
  last_name: Meyer
- first_name: Jörn
  full_name: Schumacher, Jörn
  last_name: Schumacher
- first_name: Christian
  full_name: Plessl, Christian
  id: '16153'
  last_name: Plessl
  orcid: 0000-0001-5728-9982
- first_name: Jens
  full_name: Förstner, Jens
  id: '158'
  last_name: Förstner
  orcid: 0000-0001-7059-9862
citation:
  ama: 'Meyer B, Schumacher J, Plessl C, Förstner J. Convey Vector Personalities –
    FPGA Acceleration with an OpenMP-like Effort? In: <i>Proc. Int. Conf. on Field
    Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL)</i>. IEEE; 2012:189-196. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/FPL.2012.6339370">10.1109/FPL.2012.6339370</a>'
  apa: Meyer, B., Schumacher, J., Plessl, C., &#38; Förstner, J. (2012). Convey Vector
    Personalities – FPGA Acceleration with an OpenMP-like Effort? <i>Proc. Int. Conf.
    on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL)</i>, 189–196. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/FPL.2012.6339370">https://doi.org/10.1109/FPL.2012.6339370</a>
  bibtex: '@inproceedings{Meyer_Schumacher_Plessl_Förstner_2012, title={Convey Vector
    Personalities – FPGA Acceleration with an OpenMP-like Effort?}, DOI={<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/FPL.2012.6339370">10.1109/FPL.2012.6339370</a>},
    booktitle={Proc. Int. Conf. on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL)},
    publisher={IEEE}, author={Meyer, Björn and Schumacher, Jörn and Plessl, Christian
    and Förstner, Jens}, year={2012}, pages={189–196} }'
  chicago: Meyer, Björn, Jörn Schumacher, Christian Plessl, and Jens Förstner. “Convey
    Vector Personalities – FPGA Acceleration with an OpenMP-like Effort?” In <i>Proc.
    Int. Conf. on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL)</i>, 189–96. IEEE,
    2012. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/FPL.2012.6339370">https://doi.org/10.1109/FPL.2012.6339370</a>.
  ieee: 'B. Meyer, J. Schumacher, C. Plessl, and J. Förstner, “Convey Vector Personalities
    – FPGA Acceleration with an OpenMP-like Effort?,” in <i>Proc. Int. Conf. on Field
    Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL)</i>, 2012, pp. 189–196, doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/FPL.2012.6339370">10.1109/FPL.2012.6339370</a>.'
  mla: Meyer, Björn, et al. “Convey Vector Personalities – FPGA Acceleration with
    an OpenMP-like Effort?” <i>Proc. Int. Conf. on Field Programmable Logic and Applications
    (FPL)</i>, IEEE, 2012, pp. 189–96, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/FPL.2012.6339370">10.1109/FPL.2012.6339370</a>.
  short: 'B. Meyer, J. Schumacher, C. Plessl, J. Förstner, in: Proc. Int. Conf. on
    Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL), IEEE, 2012, pp. 189–196.'
conference:
  name: 22nd International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applicaitons
    (FPL)
date_created: 2018-03-29T15:04:25Z
date_updated: 2023-09-26T13:39:13Z
ddc:
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department:
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- _id: '518'
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doi: 10.1109/FPL.2012.6339370
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