1,024‐FPGA DES Supercomputer on the AWS Cloud
Kemal Ebci̇oğlu, Batuhan Bulut, Atakan Doğan, Gürhan Küçük, İsmail San · Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience · 2025
ABSTRACT We present a 1,024‐FPGA DES supercomputer accelerator that is automatically compiled from a single‐threaded sequential DES key search application by means of our High‐Level Synthesis compiler. Our 1,024‐FPGA supercomputer is deployed on several Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2 F1 instance platforms from different AWS regions. Consequently, it can be considered the first multi‐chip application‐specific supercomputer that is scattered to multiple geographically distributed data centers around the world. Furthermore, invoking our 1,024‐FPGA DES supercomputer is functionally identical to invoking the single‐threaded sequential DES application the supercomputer accelerator is compiled from. Our 1,024‐FPGA supercomputer achieves 3.016E+12 keys/sec and it performs 5,286,000 times better than an AWS EC2 m5.8xlarge Xeon x86 machine executing the original sequential application with a performance of 5.706 E+5 keys/sec.