Automatic Creation of High-bandwidth Memory Architectures from Domain-specific Languages: The Case of Computational Fluid Dynamics

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Numerical simulations can help solve complex problems. Most of these algorithms are massively parallel and thus good candidates for FPGA acceleration thanks to spatial parallelism. Modern FPGA devices can leverage high-bandwidth memory technologies, but when applications are memory-bound designers must craft advanced communication and memory architectures for efficient data movement and on-chip storage. This development process requires hardware design skills that are uncommon in domain-specific experts. In this paper, we propose an automated tool flow from a domain-specific language (DSL) for tensor expressions to generate massively-parallel accelerators on HBM-equipped FPGAs. Designers can use this flow to integrate and evaluate various compiler or hardware optimizations. We use computational fluid dynamics (CFD) as a paradigmatic example. Our flow starts from the high-level specification of tensor operations and combines an MLIR-based compiler with an in-house hardware generation flow to generate systems with parallel accelerators and a specialized memory architecture that moves data efficiently, aiming at fully exploiting the available CPU-FPGA bandwidth. We simulated applications with millions of elements, achieving up to 103 GFLOPS with one compute unit and custom precision when targeting a Xilinx Alveo U280. Our FPGA implementation is up to 25 × more energy efficient than expert-crafted Intel CPU implementations.

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OriginalspracheEnglisch
Aufsatznummer3563553
FachzeitschriftACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems
Jahrgang16
Ausgabenummer2
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 30 Juni 2023
Peer-Review-StatusJa

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Mendeley a6b88871-c491-37fd-b197-bcfee88f8974
unpaywall 10.1145/3563553
Scopus 85164246626
ORCID /0000-0002-5007-445X/work/141545621

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