RP-Ring: A Heterogeneous Multi-FPGA Accelerator

Table 5

Hardware performance comparison.

Implement	Main chip	GFlops
GRAPE-4 cluster [7]	ASIC	1080
GRAPE-6 cluster [9]	ASIC	1349
GRAPE-8 board [8]	ASIC	960
Lienhart et al.’s work [12]	FPGA	3.9
Spurzem et al.’s work [13]	FPGA	4.3
Hamada et al.’s Bioler-3 [4]	FPGA	324.2
GPU cluster [14]	GPU	781
Sozzo et al.’s work [15]	FPGA	46.55
Our Work	FPGA	503.5