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13th Annual IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM'05)
Metropolitan Road Traffic Simulation on FPGAs
Los Alamitos
April 18-April 20
ISBN: 0-7695-2445-1
Justin L. Tripp, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Henning S. Mortveit, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Anders Å. Hansson, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Maya Gokhale, Los Alamos National Laboratory
This work demonstrates that road traffic simulation of entire metropolitan areas is possible with reconfigurable supercomputing that combines 64-bit microprocessors and FPGAs in a high bandwidth, low latency interconnect. Previously, traffic simulation on FPGAs was limited to very short road segments or required a very large number of FPGAs. Our data streaming approach overcomes scaling issues associated with direct implementations and still allows for high-level parallelism by dividing the data sets between hardware and software across the reconfigurable supercomputer. Using one FPGA on the Cray XD1 supercomputer, we are able to achieve a 34.4? speed up over the AMD microprocessor. System integration issues must be optimized to exploit this speedup in the overall simulation.
Citation:
Justin L. Tripp, Henning S. Mortveit, Anders Å. Hansson, Maya Gokhale, "Metropolitan Road Traffic Simulation on FPGAs," fccm, pp.117-126, 13th Annual IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM'05), 2005
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