Novel Dynamic Partial Reconfiguration Implementation of K-Means Clustering on FPGAs: Comparative Results with GPPs and GPUs

K-means clustering has been widely used in processing large datasets in many fields of studies. Advancement in many data collection techniques has been generating enormous amounts of data, leaving scientists with the challenging task of processing them. Using General Purpose Processors (GPPs) to pro...

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Main Authors: Hanaa M. Hussain, Khaled Benkrid, Ali Ebrahim, Ahmet T. Erdogan, Huseyin Seker
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Language:English
Published: Wiley 2012-01-01
Series:International Journal of Reconfigurable Computing
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/135926
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Khaled Benkrid
Ali Ebrahim
Ahmet T. Erdogan
Huseyin Seker
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description K-means clustering has been widely used in processing large datasets in many fields of studies. Advancement in many data collection techniques has been generating enormous amounts of data, leaving scientists with the challenging task of processing them. Using General Purpose Processors (GPPs) to process large datasets may take a long time; therefore many acceleration methods have been proposed in the literature to speed up the processing of such large datasets. In this work, a parameterized implementation of the K-means clustering algorithm in Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) is presented and compared with previous FPGA implementation as well as recent implementations on Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) and GPPs. The proposed FPGA has higher performance in terms of speedup over previous GPP and GPU implementations (two orders and one order of magnitude, resp.). In addition, the FPGA implementation is more energy efficient than GPP and GPU (615x and 31x, resp.). Furthermore, three novel implementations of the K-means clustering based on dynamic partial reconfiguration (DPR) are presented offering high degree of flexibility to dynamically reconfigure the FPGA. The DPR implementations achieved speedups in reconfiguration time between 4x to 15x.
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spelling doaj-art-aee601e4136f40beaa91ecfa49ec24a12025-02-03T07:24:17ZengWileyInternational Journal of Reconfigurable Computing1687-71951687-72092012-01-01201210.1155/2012/135926135926Novel Dynamic Partial Reconfiguration Implementation of K-Means Clustering on FPGAs: Comparative Results with GPPs and GPUsHanaa M. Hussain0Khaled Benkrid1Ali Ebrahim2Ahmet T. Erdogan3Huseyin Seker4School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh, King’s Buildings, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JL, UKSchool of Engineering, University of Edinburgh, King’s Buildings, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JL, UKSchool of Engineering, University of Edinburgh, King’s Buildings, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JL, UKSchool of Engineering, University of Edinburgh, King’s Buildings, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JL, UKBio-Health Informatics Research Group, Centre for Computational Intelligence, De Montfort University, Leicester LE1 9BH, UKK-means clustering has been widely used in processing large datasets in many fields of studies. Advancement in many data collection techniques has been generating enormous amounts of data, leaving scientists with the challenging task of processing them. Using General Purpose Processors (GPPs) to process large datasets may take a long time; therefore many acceleration methods have been proposed in the literature to speed up the processing of such large datasets. In this work, a parameterized implementation of the K-means clustering algorithm in Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) is presented and compared with previous FPGA implementation as well as recent implementations on Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) and GPPs. The proposed FPGA has higher performance in terms of speedup over previous GPP and GPU implementations (two orders and one order of magnitude, resp.). In addition, the FPGA implementation is more energy efficient than GPP and GPU (615x and 31x, resp.). Furthermore, three novel implementations of the K-means clustering based on dynamic partial reconfiguration (DPR) are presented offering high degree of flexibility to dynamically reconfigure the FPGA. The DPR implementations achieved speedups in reconfiguration time between 4x to 15x.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/135926
spellingShingle Hanaa M. Hussain
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Ahmet T. Erdogan
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Novel Dynamic Partial Reconfiguration Implementation of K-Means Clustering on FPGAs: Comparative Results with GPPs and GPUs
International Journal of Reconfigurable Computing
title Novel Dynamic Partial Reconfiguration Implementation of K-Means Clustering on FPGAs: Comparative Results with GPPs and GPUs
title_full Novel Dynamic Partial Reconfiguration Implementation of K-Means Clustering on FPGAs: Comparative Results with GPPs and GPUs
title_fullStr Novel Dynamic Partial Reconfiguration Implementation of K-Means Clustering on FPGAs: Comparative Results with GPPs and GPUs
title_full_unstemmed Novel Dynamic Partial Reconfiguration Implementation of K-Means Clustering on FPGAs: Comparative Results with GPPs and GPUs
title_short Novel Dynamic Partial Reconfiguration Implementation of K-Means Clustering on FPGAs: Comparative Results with GPPs and GPUs
title_sort novel dynamic partial reconfiguration implementation of k means clustering on fpgas comparative results with gpps and gpus
url http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/135926
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