Speaker
Mr
Marius Knaust
(Zuse Institute Berlin)
Description
Last year we gave a survey like presentation on our search for a way to realize OpenMP to FPGA offloading and asked for ideas of the community. This is where we got the decisive input we needed to reach our goal.
In this lighting talk we will present the results of it, a first OpenMP to FPGA offloading prototype. It makes use of the LLVM front-end clang for the outlining task and the Intel FPGA SDK for OpenCL as a HLS backend. We will describe how we combined these tools, the needed adjustments, and how we misused the OpenCL SDK as a back-end. Further we discuss the limitations of this approach and a small evaluation we conducted, comparing the offloading to a simple CPU version as a reference.
