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Wireless NoC for Inter-FPGA Communication: Theoretical Case for Future Datacenters

El-bay BourennaneQaiser Ijaz

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020203 distributed computingComputer sciencebusiness.industryWireless networkDistributed computingCloud computing02 engineering and technologyVirtualizationcomputer.software_genreBottleneck020202 computer hardware & architectureSoftware deployment0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineeringWireless[INFO]Computer Science [cs]businessField-programmable gate arraycomputerComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUSEfficient energy use

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Integration of FPGAs in datacenters might have different motivations from acceleration to energy efficiency, but the goal of better performance tops all. FPGAs are being utilized in a variety of ways today, tightly coupled with heterogenous computing resources, and as a standalone network of homogenous resources. Open source software stacks, propriety tool chain, and programming languages with advanced methodologies are hitting hard on the programmability wall of the FPGAs. The deployment of FPGAs in datacenters will neither be sustainable nor economical, without realizing the multi-tenancy in multiple FPGAs. Inter-FPGA communication among multiple FPGAs remained relatively less addressed problem this area. In this proposed study, we made a theoretical case as a potential solution for this bottleneck problem to realize multi-tenant multi-FPGAs in datacenters. The proposed scheme poses a challenge as well as an opportunity for the scientific community to contribute.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2020-11-052020 IEEE 23rd International Multitopic Conference (INMIC)
https://doi.org/10.1109/inmic50486.2020.9318048