Multi-FPGA Designs and Scaling of HPC Challenge Benchmarks via MPI and Circuit-Switched Inter-FPGA Networks

M. Meyer, T. Kenter, C. Plessl, ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems (2023).

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<jats:p>While FPGA accelerator boards and their respective high-level design tools are maturing, there is still a lack of multi-FPGA applications, libraries, and not least, benchmarks and reference implementations towards sustained HPC usage of these devices. As in the early days of GPUs in HPC, for workloads that can reasonably be decoupled into loosely coupled working sets, multi-accelerator support can be achieved by using standard communication interfaces like MPI on the host side. However, for performance and productivity, some applications can profit from a tighter coupling of the accelerators. FPGAs offer unique opportunities here when extending the dataflow characteristics to their communication interfaces.</jats:p> <jats:p>In this work, we extend the HPCC FPGA benchmark suite by multi-FPGA support and three missing benchmarks that particularly characterize or stress inter-device communication: b_eff, PTRANS, and LINPACK. With all benchmarks implemented for current boards with Intel and Xilinx FPGAs, we established a baseline for multi-FPGA performance. Additionally, for the communication-centric benchmarks, we explored the potential of direct FPGA-to-FPGA communication with a circuit-switched inter-FPGA network that is currently only available for one of the boards. The evaluation with parallel execution on up to 26 FPGA boards makes use of one of the largest academic FPGA installations.</jats:p>
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Meyer M, Kenter T, Plessl C. Multi-FPGA Designs and Scaling of HPC Challenge Benchmarks via MPI and Circuit-Switched Inter-FPGA Networks. ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems. Published online 2023. doi:10.1145/3576200
Meyer, M., Kenter, T., & Plessl, C. (2023). Multi-FPGA Designs and Scaling of HPC Challenge Benchmarks via MPI and Circuit-Switched Inter-FPGA Networks. ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems. https://doi.org/10.1145/3576200
@article{Meyer_Kenter_Plessl_2023, title={Multi-FPGA Designs and Scaling of HPC Challenge Benchmarks via MPI and Circuit-Switched Inter-FPGA Networks}, DOI={10.1145/3576200}, journal={ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems}, publisher={Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)}, author={Meyer, Marius and Kenter, Tobias and Plessl, Christian}, year={2023} }
Meyer, Marius, Tobias Kenter, and Christian Plessl. “Multi-FPGA Designs and Scaling of HPC Challenge Benchmarks via MPI and Circuit-Switched Inter-FPGA Networks.” ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1145/3576200.
M. Meyer, T. Kenter, and C. Plessl, “Multi-FPGA Designs and Scaling of HPC Challenge Benchmarks via MPI and Circuit-Switched Inter-FPGA Networks,” ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems, 2023, doi: 10.1145/3576200.
Meyer, Marius, et al. “Multi-FPGA Designs and Scaling of HPC Challenge Benchmarks via MPI and Circuit-Switched Inter-FPGA Networks.” ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2023, doi:10.1145/3576200.
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