FPGA vs. multi-core CPUs vs. GPUs: hands-on experience with a sorting application
Fraunhofer Institute FIRST, Kekulestrasse 7, 12489 Berlin, Germany
Facing the Multicore-Challenge, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2011, Volume 6310/2011, 105-117
@article{grozea2011fpga,
title={FPGA vs. multi-core CPUs vs. GPUs: hands-on experience with a sorting application},
author={Grozea, C. and Bankovic, Z. and Laskov, P.},
journal={Facing the multicore-challenge},
pages={105–117},
year={2011},
publisher={Springer}
}
Currently there are several interesting alternatives for low-cost high-performance computing. We report here our experiences with an N-gram extraction and sorting problem, originated in the design of a real-time network intrusion detection system. We have considered FPGAs, multi-core CPUs in symmetric multi-CPU machines and GPUs and have created implementations for each of these platforms. After carefully comparing the advantages and disadvantages of each we have decided to go forward with the implementation written for multi-core CPUs. Arguments for and against each platform are presented
September 7, 2011 by hgpu
