TY - GEN
T1 - Efficient runtime performance monitoring of FPGA-based applications
AU - Lancaster, Joseph M.
AU - Buhler, Jeremy D.
AU - Chamberlain, Roger D.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Embedded computing platforms have long incorporated non-traditional architectures (e.g., FPGAs, ASICs) to combat the diminishing returns of Moore's Law as applied to traditional processors. These specialized architectures can offer higher performance potential in a smaller space, higher power efficiency, and competitive costs. A price is paid, however, in development difficulty in determining functional correctness and understanding the performance of such a system. In this paper we focus on improving the task of performance debugging streaming applications deployed on FPGAs. We describe our runtime performance monitoring infrastructure, its capabilities and overheads on several different configurations of the monitor. We then employ the monitoring system to study the performance effects of provisioning resources for Mercury BLASTN, an implementation of the BLASTN sequence comparison application on an FPGA-accelerated system.
AB - Embedded computing platforms have long incorporated non-traditional architectures (e.g., FPGAs, ASICs) to combat the diminishing returns of Moore's Law as applied to traditional processors. These specialized architectures can offer higher performance potential in a smaller space, higher power efficiency, and competitive costs. A price is paid, however, in development difficulty in determining functional correctness and understanding the performance of such a system. In this paper we focus on improving the task of performance debugging streaming applications deployed on FPGAs. We describe our runtime performance monitoring infrastructure, its capabilities and overheads on several different configurations of the monitor. We then employ the monitoring system to study the performance effects of provisioning resources for Mercury BLASTN, an implementation of the BLASTN sequence comparison application on an FPGA-accelerated system.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77949584247&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/SOCCON.2009.5398106
DO - 10.1109/SOCCON.2009.5398106
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77949584247
SN - 9781424452200
T3 - Proceedings - IEEE International SOC Conference, SOCC 2009
SP - 23
EP - 28
BT - Proceedings - IEEE International SOC Conference, SOCC 2009
T2 - IEEE International SOC Conference, SOCC 2009
Y2 - 9 September 2009 through 11 September 2009
ER -