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| URI: | http://purl.tuc.gr/dl/dias/EF789338-25D5-430E-978F-BB3E128A533F | ||
| Year | 2008 | ||
| Type of Item | Conference Full Paper | ||
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| Bibliographic Citation | I. Papaefstathiou, G.-G. Mplemenos, "MPLEM: An 80-processor FPGA Based Multiprocessor System," in International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines, 2008, pp. 273 - 274. doi: 10.1109/FCCM.2008.15 https://doi.org/10.1109/FCCM.2008.15 | ||
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Multiprocessor embedded systems (MESes) are a very promising approach for high performance yet relatively low-cost computing. At the same time modern FPGAs provide the silicon capacity to build multiprocessor systems containing 10-100 processors, complex memory systems, heterogeneous interconnection schemes and custom engines executing the performance-critical operations. In this work we present a MES implemented in a state-of-the-art FPGA consisting of up to eighty 32-bit processors. The efficiency of our approach is demonstrated by the fact that our system can execute the BLAST CPU-intensive application, which is the prevalent tool used by molecular biologists for DNA sequence matching and database search, many times faster than a simple PC.
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