The HtComp Research Project: An Overview

Abstract

This contribution reviews the main results of the HtComp project, a two-year research programme aiming at facilitating the integration of FPGA-based accelerators into general-purpose computing. The project covered the automated generation of HDL code from parallel applications written in traditional high-level software languages, as well as the customization of the processing, memory, and on-chip interconnect subsystems tailored on the application requirements. The ultimate outcome of the research was the introduction of methods and tools allowing software developers, particularly from the HPC domain, to access hardware-accelerated platforms incurring significantly reduced design complexity and overheads.