Near Memory Acceleration on High Resolution Radio Astronomy Imaging

Autor: Corda, Stefano, Veenboer, Bram, Awan, Ahsan Javed, Kumar, Akash, Jordans, Roel, Corporaal, Henk
Rok vydání: 2020
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Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
Popis: Modern radio telescopes like the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) will need to process in real-time exabytes of radio-astronomical signals to construct a high-resolution map of the sky. Near-Memory Computing (NMC) could alleviate the performance bottlenecks due to frequent memory accesses in a state-of-the-art radio-astronomy imaging algorithm. In this paper, we show that a sub-module performing a two-dimensional fast Fourier transform (2D FFT) is memory bound using CPI breakdown analysis on IBM Power9. Then, we present an NMC approach on FPGA for 2D FFT that outperforms a CPU by up to a factor of 120x and performs comparably to a high-end GPU, while using less bandwidth and memory.
Databáze: arXiv