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FPGA accelerated systems in High Performance Computing are typically limited to single digit numbers of FPGAs in a Single System Image (SSI). However, SGI has built an SSI system with 70 FPGAs to study the feasibility of running real-world customer test cases on such a large scale system. This paper will detail the system architecture, the implementation, and the results of performing both a real-world bioinformatics benchmark and a synthetic global bandwidth test where all 70 FPGAs were driven by a single process.
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Cofer, H. et al. (2008). Creating the World’s Largest Reconfigurable Supercomputing System Based on the Scalable SGI® Altix® 4700 System Infrastructure and Benchmarking Life-Science Applications. In: Woods, R., Compton, K., Bouganis, C., Diniz, P.C. (eds) Reconfigurable Computing: Architectures, Tools and Applications. ARC 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4943. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78610-8_27
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