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27-07-2023
AMD Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platform (ACAP) workshop
| Submitter: | Steven van der Vlugt |
| Description: | On Wednesday July 12th we hosted a workshop at ASTRON on an emerging new technology in the RTSD and HPC domains. The AMD Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platform (ACAP) or Adaptive SoC (System on Chip) is a relatively new FPGA architecture from AMD. This architecture combines the benefits of FPGAs with Systolic Arrays. The ACAP is a System on Chip which combines the FPGA fabric with ARM CPUs as well as "AI-engines". These AI-engines are targeted for machine learning and AI workloads, but are in fact just a large systolic array which might be beneficial to other applications as well. We have defined several studies to evaluate this new architecture. We evaluate the capabilities of the architecture in general with regards to I/O and performance and programmability of the AI-engines as well as for signal processing workloads specifically. We found a common ground in platform requirements and signal processing workloads in the application domain of Radio Astronomy (ASTRON and Max Planck Institute), Ultra Sound (Center for Ultrasound and Brain imaging at Erasmus MC) and Radar (TNO). We evaluate the general capabilities of the architecture together with Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, University of Twente, TU Eindhoven and TU Delft. We have been collaborating for about a year in various compositions. During this first workshop we shared the use cases and research goals from the application domains and 4 students presented their work on the different research topics. We had a productive day with lively discussions on expectations of the technology, the results so far and future plans for collaboration on evaluation of the technology. This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon Europe research and innovation program under grant agreement No 101093934 (RADIOBLOCKS) and from the Netherlands eScience Center through the RECRUIT project. Part of the hardware used in this project was requested in the SURF innovation zone. |
| Copyright: | Steven van der Vlugt and the other people in the image |
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