Pedro C. Diniz
ABSTRACT
FPGAs have appealing features such as customizable internal and external bandwidth and the ability to exploit vast amounts of fine-grain instruction-level parallelism. In this paper we explore the applicability of these features in using FPGAs as data search and reorganization engines for performing search and reorganization computations over spatial pointer-based data structures for which traditional computing platforms perform poorly. The preliminary experiments, for a set of simple spatial queries over spatial sparse-mesh and quad-tree data structures, reveal that 3 year-old FPGA devices can deliver performance that is on par and in some instances even superior to that of today's workstations. This experience suggests that the integration in memory of FPGA-like fabrics for implementing smart memory engines should be performance-wise very advantageous.
- Using FPGAs for data and reorganization engines: preliminary results for spatial pointer-based data structures
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