2019 OpenPOWER+OpenCAPI Heterogeneous Computing Design Contest

Zongyang Tong$^*$, Haoran Chen$^*$ and Jinhao Kuang$^*$. Supervised by Prof. Donghong Zuo.

This competition was hosted by IBM.
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Main Contributions

  • Designed the software and the convolution unit on hardware for computation acceleration;
  • Implemented the Meta-Pruning algorithm on Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs);
  • Achieved an overall 23.5% speed increase of model inferring by using an FPGA+CPU hybrid operation mode;
  • Team won the Second Prize of National Finals.