Diseño de una arquitectura heterogénea para la gestión eficiente de recursos FPGA en un cloud privado

Abstract

The efficient use of resources in cloud computing environments is one of the many topics that have attracted many scientists in recent years. Today there is a wide variety of computing resources available in Cloud Computing infrastructures, such as multi-core CPUs, GPUs and FPGAs. In particular, accelerator-based architectures using FPGAs can provide Julio Proaño Orellana, María Blanca Caminer y Carmen Carrión 166 Diseño de una arquitectura heterogénea para la gestión eficiente de recursos FPGA en un cloud privado significant business value in Cloud environments. FPGA devices offer better performance due to their high processing capacity with predictable latency and low power consumption. However, the management of these resources in a Cloud environment is not trivial. In this work, an architecture designed to integrate FPGAs as accelerators in a private Cloud is presented. The proposal takes into account quality of service (QoS) requirements. Thus, the QoS indicators are related to the requirements of the users. The proposed architecture seeks the right combination between CPUs and FPGAs in a Cloud environment.