Reconfigurable functional units for scientific superscalar processors

Jonathon Evans; Kyle Rupnow; Katherine Compton

doi:10.1109/FPT.2007.4439234

Reconfigurable functional units for scientific superscalar processors

Jonathon Evans^*, Kyle Rupnow, Katherine Compton

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Computer Science

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Abstract

As it becomes more difficult to increase single-threaded performance, focus on multi-core processor designs increases. However, individual core performance is still important, especially for long-executing applications such as in scientific computing. Based on scientific application needs as modeled by SPEC-FP and a set of applications from Sandia National Labs, we have created several diferent reconfigurable functional unit (RFU) designs for superscalar multi-processor supercomputers. This paper discusses the design process and evaluates the RFUs' ability to implement instruction dataflow graphs from scientific workloads. Our best-performing RFU design is able to implement 89% of the dataflow graphs in the benchmarks.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	ICFPT 2007 - International Conference on Field Programmable Technology
Pages	73-80
Number of pages	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/FPT.2007.4439234
State	Published - 2007
Event	International Conference on Field Programmable Technology, ICFPT 2007 - Kitakyushu, Japan Duration: Dec 12 2007 → Dec 14 2007

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Other	International Conference on Field Programmable Technology, ICFPT 2007
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Kitakyushu
Period	12/12/07 → 12/14/07

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Hardware and Architecture
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Evans, J, Rupnow, K & Compton, K 2007, Reconfigurable functional units for scientific superscalar processors. in ICFPT 2007 - International Conference on Field Programmable Technology., 4439234, ICFPT 2007 - International Conference on Field Programmable Technology, pp. 73-80, International Conference on Field Programmable Technology, ICFPT 2007, Kitakyushu, Japan, 12/12/07. https://doi.org/10.1109/FPT.2007.4439234

Reconfigurable functional units for scientific superscalar processors. / Evans, Jonathon; Rupnow, Kyle; Compton, Katherine.
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