Evaluation of HPC Acceleration and Interconnect Technologies for High-Throughput Data Acquisition

Efficient data movement in multi-node systems is a crucial issue at the crossroads of scientific computing, big data, and high-performance computing, impacting demanding data acquisition applications from high-energy physics to astronomy, where dedicated accelerators such as FPGA devices play a key...

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Autor principal: Alessandro Cilardo
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Publicado: MDPI AG 2021
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HPC
Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/93c466de70e34fc1ac61ad7962df2bd1
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Sumario:Efficient data movement in multi-node systems is a crucial issue at the crossroads of scientific computing, big data, and high-performance computing, impacting demanding data acquisition applications from high-energy physics to astronomy, where dedicated accelerators such as FPGA devices play a key role coupled with high-performance interconnect technologies. Building on the outcome of the RECIPE Horizon 2020 research project, this work evaluates the use of high-bandwidth interconnect standards, namely InfiniBand EDR and HDR, along with remote direct memory access functions for direct exposure of FPGA accelerator memory across a multi-node system. The prototype we present aims at avoiding dedicated network interfaces built in the FPGA accelerator itself, leaving most of the resources for user acceleration and supporting state-of-the-art interconnect technologies. We present the detail of the proposed system and a quantitative evaluation in terms of end-to-end bandwidth as concretely measured with a real-world FPGA-based multi-node HPC workload.