FCM Clustering Approach Optimization Using Parallel High-Speed Intel FPGA Technology

Fuzzy C-Means (FCM) is a widely used clustering algorithm that performs well in various scientific applications. Implementing FCM involves a massive number of computations, and many parallelization techniques based on GPUs and multicore systems have been suggested. In this study, we present a method...

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Main Authors: Abedalmuhdi Almomany, Amin Jarrah, Anwar Al Assaf
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2022-01-01
Series:Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/8260283
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Summary:Fuzzy C-Means (FCM) is a widely used clustering algorithm that performs well in various scientific applications. Implementing FCM involves a massive number of computations, and many parallelization techniques based on GPUs and multicore systems have been suggested. In this study, we present a method for optimizing the FCM algorithm for high-speed field-programmable gate technology (FPGA) using a high-level C-like programming language called open computing language (OpenCL). The method was designed to enable the high-level compiler/synthesis tool to manipulate a task-parallelism model and create an efficient design. Our experimental results (based on several datasets) show that the proposed method makes the FCM execution time more than 186 times faster than the conventional design running on a single-core CPU platform. Also, its processing power reached 89 giga floating points operations per second (GFLOPs).
ISSN:2090-0155