Embedded Supercomputing

Embedded Supercomputing, also called EmbSup, is a relatively new solution intended to address fine-grain and coarse-grain parallelism together. It directs fine-grain parallelism toward FPGAs and coarse-grain parallelism toward supercomputers or clusters. The approach uses a hybrid network of CPU and FPGA hardware, with the FPGA acting as an external coprocessor to the CPU. Its programming model is still evolving and has many challenges.

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Hardware model

Hybrid CPU and FPGA network

Parallelism targets

Fine-grain and coarse-grain parallelism

Programming model

Still evolving, with many challenges