Performance Evaluation of OpenCL-Enabled Inter-FPGA Optical Link Communication Framework CIRCUS and SMI

Abstract

In recent years, Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGAs) have attracted much attention as accelerators in the research area of HighPerformance Computing (HPC). One of the strong features of current FPGA devices is their ability to achieve high-bandwidth communication performance with direct optical links to construct multi-FPGA platforms as well as their adjustability. However, FPGA programming is not easily performed on user applications. By more user-friendly programming environments, FPGAs can be applied to various HPC applications on multi-FPGA platforms.