ARENA: Asynchronous Reconfigurable Accelerator Ring to Enable Data-Centric Parallel Computing

@article{Tan2020ARENAAR,
  title={ARENA: Asynchronous Reconfigurable Accelerator Ring to Enable Data-Centric Parallel Computing},
  author={Cheng Tan and Chenhao Xie and Tong Geng and Andr{\'e}s M{\'a}rquez and Antonino Tumeo and Kevin J. Barker and Ang Li},
  journal={IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems},
  year={2020},
  volume={32},
  pages={2880-2892}
}
  • Cheng TanChenhao Xie Ang Li
  • Published 10 November 2020
  • Computer Science
  • IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
The next generation HPC and data centers are likely to be reconfigurable and data-centric due to the trend of hardware specialization and the emergence of data-driven applications. In this article, we propose ARENA – an asynchronous reconfigurable accelerator ring architecture as a potential scenario on how the future HPC and data centers will be like. Despite using the coarse-grained reconfigurable arrays (CGRAs) as the substrate platform, our key contribution is not only the CGRA-cluster… 
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