From a FPGA Prototyping Platform to a Computing Platform: The MANGO Experience
J. Flicha, R. Tornero, D. Rodriguez, D. Russo, J.M. Martínez and C. Hernández
Universitat Polit`ecnica de Val`encia Valencia, Spain
ajflich@disca.upv.es
ABSTRACT
In this paper we describe the evolution of the FPGA based prototype deployed in the MANGO project, from a hardware prototyping platform of HPC architectures to a computing platform targeting HPC and AI applications. Our main goal is to reinvest on the MANGO cluster by providing a duality in its use for both large-scale hardware prototyping and high performance computation. From our experience we can reach several interesting conclusions about the complexities and hurdles that lay below FPGA technologies, and therefore, shedding some light onto the real complexities that difficult the adoption of FPGAs on either large-scale pure HPC systems or on hybrid systems (HPC + BigData/AI).
Keywords: FPGA, Prototype, MANGO project.
