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Section: Partnerships and Cooperations
Regional Initiatives
HEAVEN Persyval Project
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Title: HEterogenous Architectures: Versatile Exploitation and programmiNg
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HEAVEN leaders: François Broquedis, Olivier Muller [TIMA lab]
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Corse participants: François Broquedis, Frédéric Desprez, Georgios Christodoulis, Manuel Selva
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Abstract: The main objective of this project was to improve the accessibility of heterogeneous architectures comprising FPGA accelerators with portability and real experimentation in mind. The portability criterion allows application programmers to benefit from FPGA devices with only small modifications to their applications. It was achieved by extending a standard parallel programming environment already targeting heterogeneous architectures comprising CPUs and GPUs. During the project, we developed an operational prototype targeting Xilinx FPGAs. Experiments have been conducted using both matrix multiplication and Cholesky decomposition kernels. These experiments have shown the usability of the framework and its very low overhead. This framework opens the path for challenging questions regarding the scheduling of heterogeneous applications targeting FPGAs.