High-performance heterogeneous computing platform based on x86 architecture processor and FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array)

Abstract

The invention discloses a high-performance heterogeneous computing platform based on an x86 architecture processor and an FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array). The high-performance heterogeneous computing platform belongs to the technical field of computer construction, and comprises a universal processor module with the x86 architecture processor, a PCIe SWITCH module and an FPGA computing module on the basis of a current platform, wherein the universal processor module is responsible for high-performance task distributing and dispatching, flow control and computing result collecting summarizing; an FPGA chip is built in the PCIe SWITCH module; the PCIe SWITCH module is responsible for interconnection and a data transmission task between the universal processor module and the FPGA computing module; the FPGA computing module is used for converting data to be operated into a computing result through internal logic, and processing and storing. According to the high-performance heterogeneous computing platform based on the x86 architecture processor and the FPGA, the expandability of a computing system is strong; appropriate FPGA computing module quantity is designed according to the application of different scales, so that higher computing parallelism is achieved, and the aim of improving the whole computing performance is achieved.

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technical field [0001] The invention discloses a high-performance heterogeneous computing platform, which belongs to the technical field of computer memory construction, and specifically relates to a high-performance heterogeneous computing platform based on an x86 architecture processor and FPGA. Background technique [0002] High Performance Computing HPC (High Performance Computing) refers to the use of high-performance computers with super computing power to solve today's super-large, super-high and super-complex computing tasks. At present, the mainstream solution for realizing high-performance computing at home and abroad is a computer cluster system. The core computing unit generally adopts a heterogeneous computing architecture based on a general-purpose processor, that is, a CPU architecture or a CPU combined with a GPU. Although the use of GPUs to form a heterogeneous computing platform has improved the performance of high-performance computing systems for certain ...

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[0004] Aiming at the problem that the cost performance and power consumption of the existing computing system are still too high, and the computing speed cannot reach the computing speed of the ASIC chip, the present invention provides a high-performance heterogeneous computing platform based on x86 architecture processor and FPGA, which realizes computing The system has strong scalability. According to different scale applications, the appropriate number of FPGA computing modules can be designed to achieve higher computing parallelism and improve the overall computing performance.

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