High-Performance Reconfigurable Computer Systems Based on Virtex FPGAs

摘要

The paper covers architectures and comparison characteristics of reconfigurable computer systems (RCS) based on field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) of the Xilinx Virtex-7 family and technologies of task solving by means of software development tools. In the paper we also consider architecture and assembly of next-generation RCS with a liquid cooling system and give results of calculations and prototyping of principal technical solutions which provide the performance of 1 PFlops for a standard computational 47U rack with the power of 150 kWatt. This is promising approach because of RCS with a liquid cooling system have a considerable advantage for lot of engineering and economical parameters such as real and specific performance, power efficiency, mass and dimension characteristics, etc., in comparison with similar systems.