A new technique to calculate dipolar energy and its implementation onto an application specific processor

Authors:
Marco Bera;Giovanni Danese;Francesco Leporati;Alvaro Spelgatti
Affiliations:
Università degli Studi di Pavia, Pavia, Italy;Università degli Studi di Pavia, Pavia, Italy;Università degli Studi di Pavia, Pavia, Italy;Università degli Studi di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
Venue:
Proceedings of the 1st conference on Computing frontiers
Year:
2004

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Abstract

In this paper we present a new technique which allows an efficient implementation of the energy evaluation, in a Montecarlo-Metropolis simulation, onto an application specific processor, exploiting FPGA technology and purposely designed to accelerate floating point operations. The technique has been implemented and simulated using a proper software development environment designed and realised in our laboratory, while expecting the furnishing of a FPGA Stratix based board from Altera. Results compared with those obtained on last generation workstations show a good acceleration in the processing.