Research labs at the university sites of CHREC are equipped with a versatile and powerful set of testbed facilities that directly support research projects in CHREC, the finest set of testbeds for RC in the world. The centerpiece facility is Novo-G, fielded in summer 2009, the most powerful RC supercomputer ever developed for academic research. Novo-G features 96 top-end accelerator FPGAs (Altera Stratix-III E260), each with 768 18x18 multipliers, 254K logic elements, 204K registers, with 4.25GB of memory attached. These 96 FPGAs are housed in 24 GiDEL ProcStar-III quad-FPGA boards and supported by 26 quad-core Nehalem Xeon processors, 20Gb/s non-blocking DDR InfiniBand, GigE, and 576GB total RAM. A broad and innovative suite of design tools are being featured, including MPI, UPC, and SHMEM at the system level, and Impulse-C, Altera FP compiler, Mitrion-C, VHDL, Verilog, and library cores at the device level, with a broad and growing set of productivity tools and libraries borne from CHREC research projects.
CHREC research equipment features a broad assortment of high-end FPGAs, accelerator boards, servers, clusters, and scalable systems. RC resources include those from AlphaData (boards), Altera (devices, boards, tools), Celoxica (boards), Cray (machines), DRC (machine, module), GiDEL (boards, tools), Nallatech (boards, cluster, tools), Pico Computing (boards), SGI (machines), SRC (machines), Tilera (GFE board), Xilinx (devices, boards, tools), and XtremeData (machines, modules).
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