Mitrion-C Application Development on SGI Altix 350/RC100

Authors:
Volodymyr V. Kindratenko;Robert J. Brunner;Adam D. Myers
Affiliations:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA;University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA;University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Venue:
FCCM '07 Proceedings of the 15th Annual IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines
Year:
2007

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Abstract

This paper provides an evaluation of SGI® RASC^TM RC100 technology from a computational science software developer's perspective. A brute force implementation of a two-point angular correlation function is used as a test case application. The computational kernel of this test case algorithm is ported to the Mitrion-C programming language and compiled, targeting the RC100 hardware. We explore several code optimization techniques and report performance results for different designs. We conclude the paper with an analysis of this system based on our observations while implementing the test case. Overall, the hardware platform and software development tools were found to be satisfactory for accelerating computationally intensive applications, however, several system improvements are desirable.