Modularization three-dimensional construction method for reconfigurable clusters and reconfigurable cluster construction structure

Abstract

The invention provides a modularization three-dimensional construction method for reconfigurable clusters and a reconfigurable cluster construction structure. Modularization partition is carried out on three main components including communication processor nodes, reconfigurable accelerators and cluster interconnection networks of the reconfigurable clusters to form a communication processor node module, a reconfigurable accelerator base plate and an interconnection network support base plate; a functional interface is used for defining the communication processor node module, the reconfigurable accelerator base plate and the interconnection network support base plate; horizontal overlapping between the communication processor node module and the reconfigurable accelerator base plate is achieved through an inserting piece to form a reconfigurable calculation node; and the reconfigurable calculation node is inserted in the interconnection network support base plate with network exchange capability in a vertical inserting mode to form the reconfigurable cluster construction structure based on three-dimensional construction.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to the field of computer technology, and more specifically, the invention relates to a modular three-dimensional construction method of a reconfigurable cluster and a corresponding reconfigurable cluster construction structure. Background technique [0002] A reconfigurable cluster is a reconfigurable computing system based on a computer cluster structure, which is realized by installing a reconfigurable acceleration module, such as FPGA (Field-Programmable Gate Array, Field Programmable Gate Array) on a common cluster system accelerator card, etc. [0003] For example, the Maxwell reconfigurable computing system manufactured by EPCC in Europe is based on IBM's BladeCenter cluster, and each server in it is installed with Nallatech's H101FPGA accelerator card and Alpha Data's ADM-XRC through the PCI-X interface. -4FM FPGA accelerator card. The advantage of this traditional cluster construction method is that it is simple to imple...

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Therefore, in such systems, the density of reconfigurable accelerators is very low, and thus the corresponding computing power is also greatly limited

In addition, the power consumption of FPGA is much smaller than that of other parts of the cluster. A large part of the system power consumption is consumed in the cluster nodes. As a reconfigurable computing system, it is difficult to take advantage of its high energy efficiency.

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