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what does sdaccel do and what would happen if it is not installed #5

Open neozhang307 opened 8 years ago

neozhang307 commented 8 years ago

As far as I know, when compiling, I should use the compile.pl script. I noticed that in the last line of the file, there is a command: "_system "sdaccel alphadata_host.tcl" _". But I did not install the program, SDAccel. When executing the script, I can still get a "BUILD SUCCESS" output, even I did not install SDAccel. So, I fell a little uncertain about that, I am wondering whether the performance bwamem will be infected without the SDAccel, or whether anything may go wrong lacking the program?
Actually, I'd rather believe that the command is not useless, and may affect the program to some extend.

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PengWeiPRC commented 8 years ago

SDAccel is a FPGA-related IDE which is used for hardware acceleration via FPGA accelerator. Some research studies add FPGAs in server nodes for further speedup. It is under research and is not used in default. So simply ignoring it is perfectly fine.

On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 10:11 PM neozhang307 notifications@github.com wrote:

As far as I know, when compiling, I should use the compile.pl script. I noticed that in the last line of the file, there is a command: "_system "sdaccel alphadata_host.tcl" _". But I did not install the program, SDAccel. When executing the script, I can still get a "BUILD SUCCESS" output, even I did not install SDAccel. So, I fell a little uncertain about that, I am wondering whether the performance bwamem will be infected without the SDAccel, or whether anything may go wrong lacking the program?

Actually, I'd rather believe that the command is not useless, and may affect the program to some extend.

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