1,024-FPGA DES Supercomputer on the AWS Cloud

Abstract

We present a 1,024-FPGA DES supercomputer accelerator that is automatically compiled from a single-threaded sequential DES key search application by means of our High-Level Synthesis compiler. Our 1,024-FPGA supercomputer is deployed on several Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2 F1 instance platforms from different AWS regions. Consequently, it can be considered the first multi-chip application-specific supercomputer that is scattered to multiple geographically distributed data centers around the world. Furthermore, invoking our 1,024-FPGA DES supercomputer is functionally identical to invoking the single-threaded sequential DES application the supercomputer accelerator is compiled from. Our 1,024-FPGA supercomputer achieves 3.016E+12 keys/sec and it performs 5,286,000 times better than an AWS EC2 m5.8xlarge Xeon x86 machine executing the original sequential application with a performance of 5.706 E+5 keys/sec.