Title :
Partitioning Hardware and Software for Reconfigurable Supercomputing Applications: A Case Study
Author :
Tripp, J.L. ; Hanson, A.A. ; Gokhale, M. ; Mortveit, H.
Author_Institution :
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Abstract :
Often reconfigurable systems are reported to have 10× to 100× speedup over that of a software system. However, the reconfigurable hardware must usually be combined with software to form an entire system. This system integration presents a hardware/software co-design problem with many system engineering issues. Here, we present traffic acceleration on the Cray XD1 supercomputer and describe the costs involved in different hardware/software trade-offs.
Keywords :
HW/SW Co-design; Supercomputing; System Integration; Acceleration; Application software; Computer aided software engineering; Costs; Field programmable gate arrays; Government; Hardware; Microprocessors; Parallel processing; Supercomputers; HW/SW Co-design; Supercomputing; System Integration;
Conference_Titel :
Supercomputing, 2005. Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE SC 2005 Conference
Conference_Location :
Seattle, WA, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-59593-061-2
