Time and Location

The lunch seminar is held on Friday from 12:00 to 13:00 on Zoom.

UPDATE: Due to COVID-19 isolation, Lunch Seminar is resumed on Zoom.

Lunch Seminar organizers:

Anastasiia Ruzhanskaia, Monica Chiosa, David Dao and Catalina Alvarez

The topic will be announced shortly before the talk.

Description

The Alveo FPGA Cluster enables access to custom hardware acceleration. Read to the official press release here.

Infrastructure

All servers have XRT 2.5.309 installed.

The build server, alveo0.ethz.ch, provides the following tools and development shells:

• Vitis 2019.2
• Vivado 2019.2
• U250 QDMA 201920.1 shell
• U250 XDMA 201830.2 shell
• U280 XDMA 201920.3 shell

The alveo1.ethz.ch U250 server is dedicated for QDMA shell deployment. For more information about it, click here

Booking system

For scheduling accesses to the machines, use the booking system: alveo-booking.ethz.ch

Access to the Cluster

The Alveo Cluster is not accessible directly from the Internet. To access the cluster from outside the ETHZ network, VPN or SSH tunnel must be used. Instructions on how to access the cluster will be sent when Guest Account is created.

Currently, access is through a VM that grants access to a single FPGA. It is possible to reserve VMs that provide access to an entire node with several FPGAs. There is also a VM running InAccel in either single FPGA or multiple FPGA mode (within a single node). We will be adding more options as demand arises.

Registration

To access the cluster, researchers outside ETH should request access through Xilinx University Program. For researchers at ETH, please contact Prof. Gustavo Alonso.

Acknowledgement

We would like to thank Xilinx® for the board donation.

Time and Location

The lunch seminar is held every Friday from 12:15 to 13:15 at CAB E 72.

Lunch Seminar organizers:

Merve Gürel, Frances Hubis, Simon Kassing, Fabio Maschi

The topic will be announced shortly before the talk.

Time and Location

The lunch seminar is held every Friday from 12:15 to 13:15 at CAB E 72.

Lunch Seminar organizers:

Vasiliki Kalavri, Melissa Licciardello, Shaoduo Gan, Sabir Akhadov

The topic will be announced shortly before the talk.

The Computing Platforms Seminar Series (COMPASS) is focused on talks by industry and academia around the general topic of computing platforms.

COMPASS is held on most Thursdays during the semester 10:00-11:00 (with some exceptions) in CAB E 72.

Upcoming Talks 

Due to the ongoing situation, the COMPASS seminar is cancelled during the Spring Semester 2020. We will resume in Fall 2020.

Past COMPASS Talks:  

Time and Location

The lunch seminar is held every Friday from 12:15 to 13:15h at CAB E 72 (lunch provided at 12:00).

Lunch Seminar organizers:

Renato Marroquin, Lukas Humbel, Konstantin Taranov, Debopam Bhattacherjee

The topic will be announced shortly before the talk.

 Centaur

Time and Location

The lunch seminar is held every Friday from 12:15 to 13:15 at CAB E 72.

Lunch Seminar organizers:

Hantian Zhang, Alexandros Ziogas, Lukas Arnold, Hasan Hassan

The topic will be announced shortly before the talk.

Time and Location

The lunch seminar is held every Friday from 12:15 to 13:15h at CAB E 72 (lunch provided at 12:00).

Lunch Seminar organizers:

Kaan Kara, Roni Häcki, Claude Barthels and Maciej Besta

The topic will be announced shortly before the talk.

Masters/Semester/Lab Projects

 Master Thesis Projects:

• Accelerating Machine Learning in Apache Arrow [MT/BT/Semester Project] (pdf)

• An FPGA Framework for Deploying Forward Neural Networks [MT] (pdf)

• Heracles: Efficient FPGA Engine for LSTM-based Neural Networks [MT] (pdf)

• Compiling JSONiq to XQuery 3.1 [MT/BT] (pdf)

• Extending Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) with Data Types [MT] (pdf)

• 100 Gbit/s Key-Value Store [MT] (pdf)

• Satellite-based low-latency Internet [MT/BT] (pdf)

• De-anonymizing encrypted video streams [MT] (pdf)

• DS3 Lab Project Proposals (Machine Learning, NLP/Computer Vision...)

• Making machine learning friendlier in the cloud [MT] (pdf)

• Bringing circuits switching back from the dead [MT] (pdf)

• How un/fair is the Internet? [MT or BT] (pdf)

 Bachelor Thesis Projects

See proposals marked [MT or BT] above.

Enzian & Sockeye Thesis Projects

There are several thesis projects available within the Enzian and Sockeye projects:

• System configuration management for hybrid HW/SW compute platforms [MT/BT] (pdf)
• Developing and Evaluating Power and Performance Models of Heterogeneous Computer Systems [MT/BT] (pdf)
• Abstraction and Modeling of Voltage Regulators [MT/BT] (pdf)
• Towards high-assurance Board Management Controller software [MT/BT] (pdf)
• Computer platform visualization for Enzian [BT] (pdf)
• Sockeye - Address Space Equivalence [MT/BT] (pdf)
• Sockeye - Performance Characteristics [MT/BT] (pdf)
• Application of the CleanQ interface in the Linux Operating System [MT/BT] (pdf)
• Network Stack Based on Device Queues [MT] (pdf)
• Dynamic Power Management of OLTP Systems Using Reinforcement Learning [MT] (pdf)

Contact Timothy Roscoe (troscoe@inf.ethz.ch) if you are interested in any of them.