9–13 Jul 2018
Sofia, Bulgaria
Europe/Sofia timezone

A Simplified Computing Framework for FPGA-Accelerated Workloads

10 Jul 2018, 16:00
1h
Sofia, Bulgaria

Sofia, Bulgaria

National Culture Palace, Boulevard "Bulgaria", 1463 NDK, Sofia, Bulgaria
Poster Track 5 – Software development Posters

Speaker

David Nonso Ojika (University of Florida (US))

Description

We introduce SWiF - Simplified Workload-intuitive Framework - a workload-centric, application programming framework designed to simplify the large-scale deployment of FPGAs in end-to-end applications. SWiF intelligently mediates access to shared resources by orchestrating the distribution and scheduling of tasks across a heterogeneous mix of FPGA and CPU resources in order to improve utilization and maintain system requirements. We implemented SWiF atop Intel Accelerator Abstraction Layer (AAL) and deployed the resulting software stack in a datacenter with an Intel-based Xeon+FPGA server running Apache Spark. We demonstrate that by using SWiF's API, developers can flexibly and easily deploy FPGA-enabled applications and frameworks with the addition of only 3 lines of code to existing code base. In particular, we demonstrate that by offloading through SWiF the compression workload of Spark to FPGA, we realize a 3.2X speedup in total job execution, and up to 5X when Spark's Resilient Distributed Datasets (RDDs) are persisted.

Primary author

David Nonso Ojika (University of Florida (US))

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