Standards for global interoperability in accelerated computing: hardware, software and organizational

摘要

Computing accelerators are increasingly being called upon to provide improved application performance, as microprocessor clock rates have leveled off. Ranging from low-level devices (FPGAs or FPOAs) to more specialized accelerators, like ClearSpeed, they can be found in desktops or in large supercomputers. Presented paper outlines efforts of OpenFPGA to foster interoperability and open interchange of information among organizations. To do that, several activities and emerging services are introduced to enable an increasingly technically and economically sustainable mainstream of reconfigurable computing ecosystem.