Vforce: An Extensible Framework for Reconfigurable Supercomputing

Author

Moore, Nicholas ; Conti, Albert ; Leeser, Miriam ; King, Laurie Smith

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Northeastern Univ., Boston, MA

Volume

40

Issue

3

fYear

2007

fDate

3/1/2007 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

39

Lastpage

49

Abstract

Reconfigurable supercomputer architectures require new programming tools that support application portability. The Vforce framework, based on the object-oriented VSIPL++ standard, encapsulates hardware-specific implementations behind a standard API, thus insulating application-level code from hardware-specific details

Keywords

application program interfaces; hardware-software codesign; object-oriented programming; reconfigurable architectures; software libraries; API standard; Vforce framework; application portability; application-level code; hardware-specific implementation; object-oriented VSIPL++ standard; programming tool; reconfigurable supercomputer architecture; Bandwidth; Blades; Computer architecture; Concurrent computing; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware design languages; Parallel architectures; Programming profession; Random access memory; Supercomputers; Supercomputing; Vforce framework; reconfigurable computing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computer

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9162

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MC.2007.110

Filename

4133995