FPGA based coprocessor to calculate the energy of dipolar system

Authors:
G. Danese;I. De Lotto;F. Leporati;A. Spelgatti
Affiliations:
Dip di Informatica e Sistemistica, Università di Pavia and INFM sez. Pavia, Pavia, Italia;Dip di Informatica e Sistemistica, Università di Pavia and INFM sez. Pavia, Pavia, Italia;Dip di Informatica e Sistemistica, Università di Pavia and INFM sez. Pavia, Pavia, Italia;Dip di Informatica e Sistemistica, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italia
Venue:
EUROMICRO-PDP'02 Proceedings of the 10th Euromicro conference on Parallel, distributed and network-based processing
Year:
2002

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Abstract

In this paper an FPGA based coprocessor is presented, interfaced with the CPU to the computer through the PCI bus; it allows a faster evaluation of the energy of a crystal, which is usually the heaviest part of a Monte Carlo simulation. The work is part of a global project aimed to design and build a parallel system made up by a cluster of accelerated workstations communicating through one among the most advanced modern network technologies. First estimations of performance show a big acceleration with respect to the execution of the same application on an Intel CPU based mother-board.