A Heterogeneous Cluster with FPGAs and GPUs

Speaker:	Professor Wayne LUK
		Department of Computing
		Imperial College London

Title:		"A Heterogeneous Cluster with FPGAs and GPUs"

Date:		Monday, 8 March 2010

Time:		10:00am - 11:00am

Venue:		Room 2404 (via lift 17/18), HKUST

Abstract:

This talk describes a heterogeneous computer cluster called Axel. Axel
contains a collection of nodes; each node can include multiple types of
accelerators such as FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) and GPUs
(Graphics Processing Units). A Map-Reduce framework for the Axel cluster
is presented which exploits spatial and temporal locality through
different types of processing elements and communication channels. The
Axel system enables experiments involving FPGAs, GPUs and CPUs running
collaboratively for applications in high-performance computing, such as
N-body simulation.


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Biography:

Wayne Luk is Professor of Computer Engineering at Imperial College London.
He was a Visiting Professor at Stanford University. His research interests
include theory and practice of customizing hardware and software for
specific application domains, such as multimedia, financial simulation,
and biomedical computing. He is a fellow of the IEEE and the BCS.