FPGA Cluster - High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing

Access to the system

Please contact Tobias Schumacher

System configuration

Reconfigurable Hardware (FPGAs) is integrated in the compute nodes of a cluster system. FPGAs allow to exloit massive parallelism on logic level and the clustering technology allows efficient messaging in large scale systems. Coarse-grained parallism is utilized between the compute nodes and fine-grained parallelism is utilized in the FPGA.

• 4 Compute nodes, each with
• 2 Intel Xeon 64-bit processors
• 4 GByte main memory
• InfiniBand 4x HCA
• AlphaData ADM-XP
• Xilinx Virtex IIpro V2P70-5
• 128 MByte DDR RAM
• 8 MByte DDR2 SRAM
   
• XtremeData XD1000
  • AMD Opteron 2.2 GHz
  • 4 GByte main memory
  • Stratix II EP2S180-3
    • Hypertransport 800
    • 4 GByte DDR-333 RAM
    • 32 MByte SRAM
    
    
• 4 compute nodes, each with
  • 2 Intel Xeon 32-bit processors
  • 2 GByte main memory
  • MyriNet 2000
  • two AlphaData ADM-XP, each with
  • Xilinx Virtex IIpro V2P70-5
  • 128 MByte DDR RAM
  • 8 MByte DDR2 SRAM