Gianluca Roascio
Analysis and extension of an open-source VHDL model of a general-purpose GPU.
Rel. Matteo Sonza Reorda, Luca Sterpone, Boyang Du. Politecnico di Torino, Corso di laurea magistrale in Ingegneria Informatica (Computer Engineering), 2018
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Abstract
In the last years, high-performance computing requirements leaded to unite the advantages brought by parallel computing typical of graphic processors with the flexibility of the general-purpose programming. This is how the so-called GPGPUs (General-Purpose Graphic Processing Units) have started to be developed and diffused on the market. However, due to their rigid microarchitectural features, GPGPUs are not available as support unit for most of the computing systems. On the contrary, FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Array) are can be seen as soft (reconfigurable) hardware accelerators to be placed next to CPUs, because they are perfectly adaptable to the designer requirements. Although, when using FPGAs a certain degree of expertise in HDL (Hardware Description Language) coding is expected, and besides, reconfiguration of the logic may take unaffordable times.
In order to put together the pros of the two platforms alleviating their drawbacks, University of Massachusetts has studied a model for a soft integer GPGPU optimized for FPGA implementation which is called FlexGrip (FLEXible GRaphIc Processor)
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