IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information
Remote Dynamic Reconfiguration of a Multi-FPGA System FiC (Flow-in-Cloud)
Summary :
Multi-FPGA systems have been receiving a lot of attention as a low cost and energy efficient system for Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC). For such purpose, a bare-metal multi-FPGA system called FiC (Flow-in-Cloud) is under development. In this paper, we introduce the FiC multi FPGA cluster which is applied partial reconfiguration (PR) FPGA design flow to support online user defined accelerator replacement while executing FPGA interconnection network and its low-level multiple FPGA management software called remote PR manager. With the remote PR manager, the user can define the FiC FPGA cluster setup by JSON and control the cluster from user application with the cooperation of simple cluster management tool / library called ficmgr on the client host and REST API service provider called ficwww on Raspberry Pi 3 (RPi3) on each node. According to the evaluation results with a prototype FiC FPGA cluster system with 12 nodes, using with online application replacement by PR and on-the-fly FPGA bitstream compression, the time for FPGA bitstream distribution was reduced to 1/17 and the total cluster setup time was reduced by 21∼57% than compared to cluster setup with full configuration FPGA bitstream.
- Publication
- IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information Vol.E104-D No.8 pp.1321-1331
- Publication Date
- 2021/08/01
- Publicized
- 2021/05/12
- Online ISSN
- 1745-1361
- DOI
- 10.1587/transinf.2020EDP7165
- Type of Manuscript
- PAPER
- Category
- Computer System
Authors
Kazuei HIRONAKA
Keio University
Kensuke IIZUKA
Keio University
Miho YAMAKURA
Keio University
Akram BEN AHMED
Keio University
Hideharu AMANO
Keio University
Keyword
Latest Issue
Copyrights notice of machine-translated contents
The copyright of the original papers published on this site belongs to IEICE. Unauthorized use of the original or translated papers is prohibited. See IEICE Provisions on Copyright for details.
Cite this
Copy
Kazuei HIRONAKA, Kensuke IIZUKA, Miho YAMAKURA, Akram BEN AHMED, Hideharu AMANO, "Remote Dynamic Reconfiguration of a Multi-FPGA System FiC (Flow-in-Cloud)" in IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information,
vol. E104-D, no. 8, pp. 1321-1331, August 2021, doi: 10.1587/transinf.2020EDP7165.
Abstract: Multi-FPGA systems have been receiving a lot of attention as a low cost and energy efficient system for Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC). For such purpose, a bare-metal multi-FPGA system called FiC (Flow-in-Cloud) is under development. In this paper, we introduce the FiC multi FPGA cluster which is applied partial reconfiguration (PR) FPGA design flow to support online user defined accelerator replacement while executing FPGA interconnection network and its low-level multiple FPGA management software called remote PR manager. With the remote PR manager, the user can define the FiC FPGA cluster setup by JSON and control the cluster from user application with the cooperation of simple cluster management tool / library called ficmgr on the client host and REST API service provider called ficwww on Raspberry Pi 3 (RPi3) on each node. According to the evaluation results with a prototype FiC FPGA cluster system with 12 nodes, using with online application replacement by PR and on-the-fly FPGA bitstream compression, the time for FPGA bitstream distribution was reduced to 1/17 and the total cluster setup time was reduced by 21∼57% than compared to cluster setup with full configuration FPGA bitstream.
URL: https://global.ieice.org/en_transactions/information/10.1587/transinf.2020EDP7165/_p
Copy
@ARTICLE{e104-d_8_1321,
author={Kazuei HIRONAKA, Kensuke IIZUKA, Miho YAMAKURA, Akram BEN AHMED, Hideharu AMANO, },
journal={IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information},
title={Remote Dynamic Reconfiguration of a Multi-FPGA System FiC (Flow-in-Cloud)},
year={2021},
volume={E104-D},
number={8},
pages={1321-1331},
abstract={Multi-FPGA systems have been receiving a lot of attention as a low cost and energy efficient system for Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC). For such purpose, a bare-metal multi-FPGA system called FiC (Flow-in-Cloud) is under development. In this paper, we introduce the FiC multi FPGA cluster which is applied partial reconfiguration (PR) FPGA design flow to support online user defined accelerator replacement while executing FPGA interconnection network and its low-level multiple FPGA management software called remote PR manager. With the remote PR manager, the user can define the FiC FPGA cluster setup by JSON and control the cluster from user application with the cooperation of simple cluster management tool / library called ficmgr on the client host and REST API service provider called ficwww on Raspberry Pi 3 (RPi3) on each node. According to the evaluation results with a prototype FiC FPGA cluster system with 12 nodes, using with online application replacement by PR and on-the-fly FPGA bitstream compression, the time for FPGA bitstream distribution was reduced to 1/17 and the total cluster setup time was reduced by 21∼57% than compared to cluster setup with full configuration FPGA bitstream.},
keywords={},
doi={10.1587/transinf.2020EDP7165},
ISSN={1745-1361},
month={August},}
Copy
TY - JOUR
TI - Remote Dynamic Reconfiguration of a Multi-FPGA System FiC (Flow-in-Cloud)
T2 - IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information
SP - 1321
EP - 1331
AU - Kazuei HIRONAKA
AU - Kensuke IIZUKA
AU - Miho YAMAKURA
AU - Akram BEN AHMED
AU - Hideharu AMANO
PY - 2021
DO - 10.1587/transinf.2020EDP7165
JO - IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information
SN - 1745-1361
VL - E104-D
IS - 8
JA - IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information
Y1 - August 2021
AB - Multi-FPGA systems have been receiving a lot of attention as a low cost and energy efficient system for Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC). For such purpose, a bare-metal multi-FPGA system called FiC (Flow-in-Cloud) is under development. In this paper, we introduce the FiC multi FPGA cluster which is applied partial reconfiguration (PR) FPGA design flow to support online user defined accelerator replacement while executing FPGA interconnection network and its low-level multiple FPGA management software called remote PR manager. With the remote PR manager, the user can define the FiC FPGA cluster setup by JSON and control the cluster from user application with the cooperation of simple cluster management tool / library called ficmgr on the client host and REST API service provider called ficwww on Raspberry Pi 3 (RPi3) on each node. According to the evaluation results with a prototype FiC FPGA cluster system with 12 nodes, using with online application replacement by PR and on-the-fly FPGA bitstream compression, the time for FPGA bitstream distribution was reduced to 1/17 and the total cluster setup time was reduced by 21∼57% than compared to cluster setup with full configuration FPGA bitstream.
ER -
English
