Prof William Fornaciari and Dr Giuseppe Massari are attending the final review meeting of the MANGO EU project now at EATON (Le Lieu, Switzerland).
They are there representing a much wider POLIMI – HEAP Lab team which includes also Prof Giovanni Agosta, Luca Cremona, Federico Reghenzani, Dr Francesca Rossi, Dr Federico Terraneo, Michele Zanella and Dr Davide Zoni.
EATON’s main building hosts the MANGO cluster, that is a set of 192 FPGAs in 16 Heterogeneous Nodes (HN) connected to 8 servers (General purpose Nodes, GN) where the BBQ open source Runtime Resource Manager (BarbequeRTRM) developed at POLIMI – HEAP Lab runs.
EATON has designed a specific cabinet to ensure the high availability of the MANGO infrastructure throughout the project and the possibility to remotely monitor its hardware and cooling status. In addition to this, during the MANGO project, EATON developed new power distribution bars and EPFL proposed the use of a thermosiphon for the cooling of chips. Both have been tested during the project by EATON.
As POLIMI – HEAP Lab we are proud to say that, in the final demo, the BarbequeRTRM we put forward is capable of managing the resource allocation of multiple applications onto such heterogeneous architectures, balancing performance, resource exploitation and power consumption.
