Our goal is to explore OpenCL on a CPU-FPGA Heterogeneous Architecture Research Platform (HARP). These applications are designed to use the latest features of heterogeneous architectures such as Shared Virtual Memory (SVM).

Clone the repo and copy to your own directories in vLab:

git clone https://github.com/jjiantong/fpga_cpu_harp2.git
scp -r FPGA_CPU_HARP2 [email protected]:/homes/$USER/

Connect to the vLab access node ssh-iam.intel-research.net:

ssh [email protected]

We support two FPGA classes: fpga-bdx-opencl and fpga-pac-a10.

The source code for fpga-bdx-opencl is in the bdx-opencl directory.

Configure an OpenCL environment:

source /export/fpga/bin/setup-fpga-env fpga-bdx-opencl
qsub-fpga

Compile the host program:

cd fpga_cpu_harp2/bdx-opencl/$APP/
make

Compile the OpenCL kernel:

cd device
qsub-aoc $NAME.cl

You can check the status by running the command qstat. When the job complete, you can find a directory $NAME, files $NAME.aoco, $NAME.aocx, and the related log files.

Move $NAME.aocx to the bin directory.

Execute the compiled design:

cd fpga_cpu_harp2/bdx-opencl/$APP
./bin/$EXEC

The source code for fpga-pac-a10 is in the pac-a10 directory.

Configure an OpenCL environment:

source /export/fpga/bin/setup-fpga-env fpga-pac-a10
qsub-fpga

Compile the host program:

cd fpga_cpu_harp2/pac-a10/$APP/
make

Compile the OpenCL kernel:

cd device
qsub-aoc $NAME.cl

You can check the status by running the command qstat. When the job complete, you can find a directory $NAME, files $NAME.aoco, $NAME.aocx, and the related log files.

Move $NAME.aocx to the bin directory.

Execute the compiled design:

cd fpga_cpu_harp2/pac-a10/$APP
./bin/$EXEC

1. Atomics not supported in systems with multiported memories. Therefore, for RSCD application, we have to use the near-optimal execution model (SWI+C), instead of the optimal execution model (NDR+C).
2. Due to atomic operations, SVM cannot be used to share buffers between the CPU and the FPGA for some variables in the RSCD application.
3. PAC A10 does not seem to support the OpenCL channel.