{"title":"FPGA-Based Bandwidth Selection for Kernel Density Estimation Using High Level Synthesis Approach","authors":"A. Gramacki, Marek Sawerwain, J. Gramacki","doi":"10.1515/BPASTS-2016-0091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/BPASTS-2016-0091","url":null,"abstract":"FPGA technology can offer significantly hi-gher performance at much lower power consumption than is available from CPUs and GPUs in many computational problems. Unfortunately, programming for FPGA (using ha-rdware description languages, HDL) is a difficult and not-trivial task and is not intuitive for C/C++/Java programmers. To bring the gap between programming effectiveness and difficulty the High Level Synthesis (HLS) approach is promoting by main FPGA vendors. Nowadays, time-intensive calculations are mainly performed on GPU/CPU architectures, but can also be successfully performed using HLS approach. In the paper we implement a bandwidth selection algorithm for kernel density estimation (KDE) using HLS and show techniques which were used to optimize the final FPGA implementation. We are also going to show that FPGA speedups, comparing to highly optimized CPU and GPU implementations, are quite substantial. Moreover, power consumption for FPGA devices is usually much less than typical power consumption of the present CPUs and GPUs.","PeriodicalId":298801,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: Other Computer Science","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128776014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Big Data: Overview","authors":"Richa Gupta, Sunny Gupta, Anuradha Singhal","doi":"10.14445/22312803/IJCTT-V9150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14445/22312803/IJCTT-V9150","url":null,"abstract":"Big data is data that exceeds the processing capacity of traditional databases. The data is too big to be processed by a single machine. New and innovative methods are required to process and store such large volumes of data. This paper provides an overview on big data, its importance in our live and some technologies to handle big data.","PeriodicalId":298801,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: Other Computer Science","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132047733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Smart: Semantically mashup rest web services","authors":"R. Chamoun","doi":"10.5121/IJWEST.2013.4406","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5121/IJWEST.2013.4406","url":null,"abstract":"A mashup is a combination of information from more than one source, mixed up in a way to create something new, or at least useful. Anyone can find mashups on the internet, but these are always specifically designed for a predefined purpose. To change that fact, we implemented a new platform we called the SMART platform. SMART enables the user to make his own choices as for the REST web services he needs to call in order to build an intelligent personalized mashup, from a Google-like simple search interface, without needing any programming skills. In order to achieve this goal, we defined an ontology that can hold REST web services descriptions. These descriptions encapsulate mainly, the input type needed for a service, its output type, and the kind of relation that ties the input to the output. Then, by matching the user input query keywords, with the REST web services definitions in our ontology, we can find registered services individuals in this ontology, and construct the raw REST query for each service found. The wrap up from the keywords, into semantic definitions, in order to find the matching service individual, then the wrap down from the semantic service description of the found individual, to the raw REST call, and finally the wrap up of the result again into semantic individuals, is done for two main purposes: the first to let the user use simple keywords in order to build complex mashups, and the second to benefit from the ontology inference engine in a way, where services instances can be tied together into an intelligent mashup, simply by making each service output individuals, stand as the next service input.","PeriodicalId":298801,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: Other Computer Science","volume":"203 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115994422","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Sinha, Soumojit Acharyya, Suranjan Chakraborty, Mitrava Sarkar
{"title":"Field Programmable DSP Arrays - A Novel Reconfigurable Architecture for Efficient Realization of Digital Signal Processing Functions","authors":"A. Sinha, Soumojit Acharyya, Suranjan Chakraborty, Mitrava Sarkar","doi":"10.5121/sipij.2013.4204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5121/sipij.2013.4204","url":null,"abstract":"Digital Signal Processing functions are widely used in real time high speed applications. Those functions are generally implemented either on ASICs with inflexibility, or on FPGAs with bottlenecks of relatively smaller utilization factor or lower speed compared to ASIC. The proposed reconfigurable DSP processor is redolent to FPGA, but with basic fixed Common Modules (CMs) (like adders, subtractors, multipliers, scaling units, shifters) instead of CLBs. This paper introduces the development of a reconfigurable DSP processor that integrates different filter and transform functions. The switching between DSP functions is occurred by reconfiguring the interconnection between CMs. Validation of the proposed reconfigurable architecture has been achieved on Virtex5 FPGA. The architecture provides sufficient amount of flexibility, parallelism and scalability.","PeriodicalId":298801,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: Other Computer Science","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125252794","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Programmable Logic Arrays","authors":"I. Damaj","doi":"10.1002/9780470050118.ecse316","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470050118.ecse316","url":null,"abstract":"Programmable logic arrays (PLAs) are traditional digital electronic devices. A PLA is a simple programmable logic device (SPLD) used to implement combinational logic circuits. A PLA has a set of programmable AND gates, which link to a set of programmable OR gates to produce an output. The AND–OR layout of a PLA allows for implementing logic functions that are in a sum-of-products form. PLAs are available in the market in different types. PLAs could be stand alone chips, or parts of bigger processing systems. Stand alone PLAs are available as mask programmable (MPLAs) and field programmable (FPLAs) devices. The attractions of PLAs that brought them to mainstream engineers include their simplicity, relatively small circuit area, predictable propagation delay, and ease of development. The powerful-but-simple property brought PLAs to rapid prototyping, synthesis, design optimization techniques, embedded systems, traditional computer systems, hybrid high-performance computing systems, etc. Indeed, there has been renewable interests in working with the simple AND-to-OR PLAs. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000Keywords: \u0000 \u0000gate arrays; \u0000programmable logic; \u0000logic design; \u0000digital systems; \u0000boolean algebra; \u0000digital electronics; \u0000rapid prototyping; \u0000hardware synthesis","PeriodicalId":298801,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: Other Computer Science","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130366912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}