Performance evaluation of Stratix V DE5-Net FPGA board for high performance computing

Abstract

FPGA, or Field Programmable Gate Array, has been widely used for several applications such as digital signal and image processing, video processing, software-defined radio, radar processing, medical imaging and so on. Currently, with the significance growth of parallel computing and cloud computing application, FPGA provides another solution for high performance computing instead of CPU or GPGPU due to its hardware parallelism and low power consuming. We have been developing the heterogeneous high performance computing that utilize the FPGA as well as GPU. One of the implemented FPGA boards for this purpose is Stratix V FPGA from Altera. In this paper, we performed the test and computation using OpenCL to evaluate the performance of Stratix V DE5-Net FPGA board. The results showed that the maximum performance achieved 6.4 GBytes/s and 81 GFlops for PCIe throughput and 1-D FFT computation performance respectively.