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For the last three decades a core use of FPGAs has been for processing communication: FPGA-based SmartNICs are in widespread use from the datacenter to IoT. Augmenting switches with FPGAs, however, has been less studied, but has numerous…
Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have recently been increasingly used for highly-parallel processing of compute intensive tasks. This paper introduces an FPGA hardware platform architecture that is PC-based, allows for fast…
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The emerging microservice/serverless-based cloud programming paradigm and the rising networking speeds leave the RPC stack as the predominant data center tax. Domain-specific hardware acceleration holds the potential to disentangle the…
Performance of distributed data center applications can be improved through use of FPGA-based SmartNICs, which provide additional functionality and enable higher bandwidth communication. Until lately, however, the lack of a simple approach…
The LHCb Upgrade I introduced a triggerless data acquisition system, crucial for readout across sub-detectors. Upgrade II aims for fivefold throughput enhancement and requires precise clock distribution. The PCIe400 development…
The Apollo Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture (ATCA) platform is an open-source design consisting of a generic "Service Module" (SM) and a customizable "Command Module" (CM), allowing for cost-effective use in applications…
The performance of discrete general purpose graphics processing units (GPGPUs) has been improving at a rapid pace. The PCIe interconnect that controls the communication of data between the system host memory and the GPU has not improved as…
With the emerging big data applications of Machine Learning, Speech Recognition, Artificial Intelligence, and DNA Sequencing in recent years, computer architecture research communities are facing the explosive scale of various data…
The PCIe400 is a generic readout board designed for high-throughput data acquisition in future high-energy physics experiments. It interfaces up to 48 bidirectional links supporting custom protocols from 1 to 26 Gbps to modern back-end…
While FPGA accelerator boards and their respective high-level design tools are maturing, there is still a lack of multi-FPGA applications, libraries, and not least, benchmarks and reference implementations towards sustained HPC usage of…
3D integration offers key advantages in improving system performance and efficiency for the End-of-Scaling era. It enables the incorporation of heterogeneous system components and disparate technologies, eliminates off-chip communication…
Interconnecting power converters (IPC) are the main elements enabling the interconnection of multiple high-voltage alternating current (HVAC) and high-voltage direct current (HVDC) subgrids. These converters can be classified either as…
A reliable and cost-effective interconnect technology is required for the development of hybrid pixel detectors. The interconnect technology needs to be adapted for the pitch and die sizes of the respective applications. For small-scale…
Trends in hardware, the prevalence of the cloud, and the rise of highly demanding applications have ushered an era of specialization that quickly changes how data is processed at scale. These changes are likely to continue and accelerate in…
We have developed a novel and generic open-source platform - Apollo - which simplifies the design of custom Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture (ATCA) blades by factoring the design into generic infrastructure and…
The paper presents numerical results on an innovative concept of an efficient, site-specific cooling technology for microprocessor hot spots using Alternating Current Electrothermal Flow (ACET). ACET deploys an electrokinetic transport…