eki presented at HEART 2025 (1)

At the 2025 HEART conference, held in Kumamoto, Japan from the 26th to the 28th of May, the eki team presented the paper "AuroraFlow, an Easy-To-Use, Low-Latency FPGA Communication Solution Demonstrated on Multi-FPGA Neural Network Inference". Gerrit Pape, a student research assistant at the Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing (PC2) presented an implementation of AuroraFlow, a framework allowing for an easy integration of networking components into FPGA applications. AuroraFlow enables the eki team to implement multi-FPGA inference in FINN. Integrating AuroraFlow with FINN, the team has demonstrated multi-FPGA capabilities by running inference on a MobileNet architecture split across two Alveo U280 FPGAs. The FPGAs communicate using AuroraFlow and utilizing the direct optical links provided in the Noctua 2 compute cluster. The full paper can be accessed at: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3728179.3728190