MPI: a message passing interface
Proceedings of the 1993 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms for Fortran Usage
ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software (TOMS)
BEE2: A High-End Reconfigurable Computing System
IEEE Design & Test
A Scalable FPGA-based Multiprocessor
FCCM '06 Proceedings of the 14th Annual IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines
RECONFIG '08 Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Reconfigurable Computing and FPGAs
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High-performance reconfigurable computers (HPRCs) provide a mix of standard processors and FPGAs to collectively accelerate applications. This introduces new design challenges, such as the need for portable programming models across HPRCs and system-level verification tools. To address the need for cosimulating a complete heterogeneous application using both software and hardware in an HPRC, we have created a tool called the Message-passing Simulation Framework (MSF). We have used it to simulate and develop an interface enabling an MPI-based approach to exchange data between X86 processors and hardware engines inside FPGAs. The MSF can also be used as an application development tool that enables multiple FPGAs in simulation to exchange messages amongst themselves and with X86 processors. As an example, we simulate a LINPACK benchmark hardware core using an Intel-FSB-Xilinx-FPGA platform to quickly prototype the hardware, to test the communications and to verify the benchmark results.