FPGA as a Service: Dynamic Application Offloading Scheme with FPGA Acceleration

• Main Authors: Kun-Chi Liao, 廖堃吉
• Other Authors: 洪士灝
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/12572743571705191685

碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 資訊工程學研究所 === 101 === FPGA technology allows system developers to convert software functions into circuits that provide higher performance and lower energy consumption than executing the functions on the CPU. Furthermore, FPGA chips can be reconfigured for handling different workloads. Thus, FPGA has the performance advantage of hardware circuits and the flexibility of software programming. Recently, FPGA has a growing popularity in specialized areas such as medication, military, telecom, academic research, etc. However, FPGA also has disadvantages such as the degree of difficulty in design, lack of standard application interfaces, hence the FPGA is still not widely used for applications on general-purpose computer system. In the thesis, with a flow-based programming paradigm, we develop a dynamic migration framework for application developers to use FPGA to offload tasks. With this new framework, developers can accelerate applications dynamically with FPGA on the same system or on the Cloud.