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. After an on-going upgrade, Novo-G will feature 192 top-end accelerator FPGAs (Altera Stratix-III E260), each with 768 18x18 multipliers, 254K logic elements, 204K registers, and 4.25GB of memory attached. These 192 FPGAs are housed in 48 GiDEL ProcStar-III quad-FPGA boards and supported by 26 quad-core Nehalem Xeon processors, 20Gb/s non-blocking DDR InfiniBand, GigE, and nearly 1TB of 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, Simulink, and library cores at the device level, with a broad and growing set of productivity tools and libraries borne from CHREC research projects. More info on Novo-G is posted HERE. Novo-G and related CHREC projects are supporting the Novo-G Forum, an international research effort to study and showcase the inherent advantages in performance, productivity, and sustainability of reconfigurable supercomputing.
In general, CHREC research equipment features a broad assortment of 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).
Additional info on these facilities is highlighted at these links: