Periodic Reporting for period 1 - FPGA Accelerators (Energy Efficient FPGA Accelerators for Graph Analytics Applications)
Reporting period: 2016-04-01 to 2018-03-31
Recently, there has been a shift in data center platforms towards customizable hardware such as FPGAs to achieve energy efficiency and performance improvements. However, most domain experts cannot effectively utilize these FPGAs because of the steep learning curve involved in hardware design. This project fills this gap for graph applications by making it easy to develop accelerators without hardware knowledge. This is especially helpful for small/medium companies to utilize these FPGAs without incurring high engineering costs. Also, improving FPGA utilization in data centers have the potential to significantly reduce the electricity consumption of data centers.