Supercomputing with reconfigurable architectures

Abstract

Recently, several research and commercial systems based on reconfigurable logic have been implemented. These machines have demonstrated supercomputer levels of performance for a number of algorithms. While these demonstrations have been impressive, it is not clear that architectures based on reconfigurable logic will necessarily be suitable for algorithms commonly executed on supercomputers. This paper discusses the implementation of Livermore Fortran Kernels for a supercomputer class machine based on reconfigurable logic.