Near Memory Acceleration on High Resolution Radio Astronomy Imaging

Stefano Corda, Bram Veenboer, Ahsan Javed Awan, Akash Kumar, Roel Jordans, Henk Corporaal

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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.

Originele taal-2Engels
Titel2020 9th Mediterranean Conference on Embedded Computing (MECO)
UitgeverijInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Aantal pagina's6
ISBN van elektronische versie978-1-7281-6949-1
DOI's
StatusGepubliceerd - 7 jul. 2020
Evenement9th Mediterranean Conference on Embedded Computing, MECO 2020 - Budva, Montenegro
Duur: 8 jun. 202011 jun. 2020

Congres

Congres9th Mediterranean Conference on Embedded Computing, MECO 2020
Land/RegioMontenegro
StadBudva
Periode8/06/2011/06/20

Financiering

This work is funded by the European Commission under Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks European Industrial Doctorate (Project ID: 676240). We would like to thank Jan van Lunteren from IBM Research for providing the Access Processor and NMC accelerator architecture, and Sambit Nayak from Ericsson Research for his feedback on the draft of the paper.

FinanciersFinanciernummer
European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme676240
European Commission

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