Annotated Bibliography

We are listing some great work done by researchers over the years with very brief comments by us to aid anyone looking to venture a bit deeper into the areas that our project spans.

The literature is expected to grow to cover the following categories:

High performance computing in general, with focus on HPC with FPGAs and GPUs
FPGA-focused literature
High-level languages, compilers, translators, and related material with emphasis on FPGAs and GPUs.
Scientific and Numerical Modelling

Suggestions to the list are always welcome.




	Year Title Remarks




	2008 The promise of high performance reconfigurable computing This is a bit dated paper, but a very useful and friendly introduction to high-performance reconfigurable computing. Some realisitc performance and efficiency figures are quite useful, and gives a helpful classification for HPC systems based on FPGAs.






	2012 GRAPE-8 — An Accelerator for Gravitational N-body Simulation with 20.5Gflops/W Performance They have developed special purpose pipelined processors for particle-particle interactions, and FPGA is used for PCI interface. It is an interesing case study as it gives a reference point in the form of the performance and power efficiency of a custom chip for a well-known kernel used in scientific models.


	2002 Using floating point arithmetic on FPGAs to accelerate scientific n-body simulations A useful paper for a perspective on use of floating-point arithmetic in FPGAs, and the returns possible by use of custom representations rather than aritifcially limiting to IEEE representations.


	2008 Multiparty Asynchronous Session Types This paper presents the work that extends binary session types to multiparty asynchoronous session types (MPSTs). Use of MPSTs to formalize and automate the translation of high-level code for FPGA implementation is a key aspect of our project.

Year	Title	Remarks
2008	The promise of high performance reconfigurable computing	This is a bit dated paper, but a very useful and friendly introduction to high-performance reconfigurable computing. Some realisitc performance and efficiency figures are quite useful, and gives a helpful classification for HPC systems based on FPGAs.
2012	GRAPE-8 — An Accelerator for Gravitational N-body Simulation with 20.5Gflops/W Performance	They have developed special purpose pipelined processors for particle-particle interactions, and FPGA is used for PCI interface. It is an interesing case study as it gives a reference point in the form of the performance and power efficiency of a custom chip for a well-known kernel used in scientific models.
2002	Using floating point arithmetic on FPGAs to accelerate scientific n-body simulations	A useful paper for a perspective on use of floating-point arithmetic in FPGAs, and the returns possible by use of custom representations rather than aritifcially limiting to IEEE representations.
2008	Multiparty Asynchronous Session Types	This paper presents the work that extends binary session types to multiparty asynchoronous session types (MPSTs). Use of MPSTs to formalize and automate the translation of high-level code for FPGA implementation is a key aspect of our project.