
doi: 10.1109/fccm.2015.40
Modern FPGAs can be configured to exploit the large amount of on chip parallelism possible from the distributed SRAM memory blocks for algorithms operating on large sparse graphs. To simplify the programming and configuration of such memory-centric organizations, we can customize an array of soft processors for these graph algorithms. In particular, we can deliver significant performance improvements for bulk synchronous graph algorithms with a custom processor that implements a graph-specific ISA. We develop a C++ API using Vivado High-Level Synthesis to describe graph computations and generate custom soft processors from these high-level descriptions. Our preliminary experiments suggest that our soft processor outperform Micro blaze and NIOS-II/f soft processors by a#x222B;6×. While not the focus of this work, this design can scale out to a cluster of 16 -- 32 low-power, energy-efficient Zed boards and Microzed boards to compete with server-class x86 nodes.
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