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13th Annual IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM'05)
Los Alamitos
April 18-April 20
ISBN: 0-7695-2445-1
Naohito Nakasato, Institute of Physical and Chemical Research
Tsuyoshi Hamada, Institute of Physical and Chemical Research
The Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method is a widely used particle simulation scheme in astrophysical hydrodynamics simulations. Since a possible problem size of SPH simulations is limited by available computational resource, it is natural to implement a computation intensive core of the SPH simulations on a FPGA based reconfigurable board. We are now implementing SPH simulations on our FPGA based board PROGRAPE-3. Using our developed software, implementation of the SPH simulation becomes quite straightforward. Our "SPH processors", which compute particle interaction force by reduced accuracy floating-point operations, run at 66 MHz on our board. Obtained real performance of the SPH processors is 38 Gflops. Our results indicate using FPGA chips for floating-point intensive astrophysical simulations is being feasible.
Citation:
Naohito Nakasato, Tsuyoshi Hamada, "Astrophysical Hydrodynamics Simulations on a Reconfigurable System," fccm, pp.279-280, 13th Annual IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM'05), 2005
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