The VINEYARD project: Versatile integrated accelerator-based heterogeneous data centres

Christoforos Kachris, Georgi Gaydadjiev, Huy-Nam Nguyen, Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos, Angelos Bilas, Neil Morgan, Christos Strydis, Vasilis Spatadakis, Dimitris Gardelis, Ricardo Jimenez-Peris, Alexandre Almeida

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Abstract

Emerging applications like cloud computing and big data analytics have created the need for powerful centers hosting hundreds of thousands of servers. Currently, the data centers are based on general purpose processors that provide high flexibility but lacks the energy efficiency of customized accelerators. VINEYARD1 aims to develop novel servers based on programmable hardware accelerators. Furthermore, VINEYARD will develop an integrated framework for allowing end-users to seamlessly utilize these accelerators in heterogeneous computing systems by using typical data-center programming frameworks (i.e. Spark). VINEYARD will foster the expansion of the soft-IP cores industry, currently limited in the embedded systems, to the data center market. VINEYARD plans to demonstrate the advantages of its approach in three real use-cases a) a bio-informatics application for high-accuracy brain modeling, b) two critical financial applications and c) a big-data analysis application.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2016 5th International Conference on Modern Circuits and Systems Technologies, MOCAST 2016
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
ISBN (Electronic)9781467396806
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 20 Jun 2016
Externally publishedYes
Event5th International Conference on Modern Circuits and Systems Technologies, MOCAST 2016 - Thessaloniki, Greece
Duration: 12 May 201614 May 2016

Conference

Conference5th International Conference on Modern Circuits and Systems Technologies, MOCAST 2016
Country/TerritoryGreece
CityThessaloniki
Period12/05/1614/05/16

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