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Janus: An FPGA-Based System for High-Performance Scientific Computing
January/February 2009 (vol. 11 no. 1)
pp. 48-58
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Francesco Belletti, Maria Cotallo, Andrés Cruz, Luis Antonio Fernandez, Antonio Gordillo-Guerrero, Marco Guidetti, Andrea Maiorano, Filippo Mantovani, Enzo Marinari, Victor Martin-Mayor, Antonio Muñoz-Sudupe, Denis Navarro, Giorgio Parisi, Sergio Perez-Gaviro, Mauro Rossi, Juan Jesús Ruiz-Lorenzo, Sebastiano Fabio Schifano, Daniele Sciretti, Alfonso Tarancon, Raffaele (lele) Tripiccione, José Luis Velasco, David Yllanes, Gianpaolo Zanier, "Janus: An FPGA-Based System for High-Performance Scientific Computing," Computing in Science and Engineering, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 48-58, January/February, 2009.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MCSE.2009.11,
author = {Francesco Belletti and Maria Cotallo and Andrés Cruz and Luis Antonio Fernandez and Antonio Gordillo-Guerrero and Marco Guidetti and Andrea Maiorano and Filippo Mantovani and Enzo Marinari and Victor Martin-Mayor and Antonio Muñoz-Sudupe and Denis Navarro and Giorgio Parisi and Sergio Perez-Gaviro and Mauro Rossi and Juan Jesús Ruiz-Lorenzo and Sebastiano Fabio Schifano and Daniele Sciretti and Alfonso Tarancon and Raffaele (lele) Tripiccione and José Luis Velasco and David Yllanes and Gianpaolo Zanier},
title = {Janus: An FPGA-Based System for High-Performance Scientific Computing},
journal ={Computing in Science and Engineering},
volume = {11},
number = {1},
issn = {1521-9615},
year = {2009},
pages = {48-58},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MCSE.2009.11},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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A1 - Francesco Belletti,
A1 - Maria Cotallo,
A1 - Andrés Cruz,
A1 - Luis Antonio Fernandez,
A1 - Antonio Gordillo-Guerrero,
A1 - Marco Guidetti,
A1 - Andrea Maiorano,
A1 - Filippo Mantovani,
A1 - Enzo Marinari,
A1 - Victor Martin-Mayor,
A1 - Antonio Muñoz-Sudupe,
A1 - Denis Navarro,
A1 - Giorgio Parisi,
A1 - Sergio Perez-Gaviro,
A1 - Mauro Rossi,
A1 - Juan Jesús Ruiz-Lorenzo,
A1 - Sebastiano Fabio Schifano,
A1 - Daniele Sciretti,
A1 - Alfonso Tarancon,
A1 - Raffaele (lele) Tripiccione,
A1 - José Luis Velasco,
A1 - David Yllanes,
A1 - Gianpaolo Zanier,
PY - 2009
KW - Monte Carlo simulations
KW - field-programmable gate array
KW - FPGA
KW - scientific computing
KW - Janus
VL - 11
JA - Computing in Science and Engineering
ER -
 
Francesco Belletti, Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN)
Maria Cotallo, Institute of Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems
Andrés Cruz, University of Zaragoza
Luis Antonio Fernandez, Complutense University of Madrid
Antonio Gordillo-Guerrero, University of Extremadura
Marco Guidetti, University of Ferrara
Andrea Maiorano, University of Ferrara
Filippo Mantovani, University of Ferrara
Enzo Marinari, University of Rome
Victor Martin-Mayor, Complutense University of Madrid
Antonio Muñoz-Sudupe, Complutense University of Madrid
Denis Navarro, University of Zaragoza
Giorgio Parisi, University of Rome
Sergio Perez-Gaviro, University of Rome
Mauro Rossi, ETHlab
Juan Jesús Ruiz-Lorenzo, University of Extremadura
Sebastiano Fabio Schifano, University of Ferrara
Daniele Sciretti, University of Zaragoza
Alfonso Tarancon, University of Zaragoza
Raffaele (lele) Tripiccione, University of Ferrara
José Luis Velasco, University of Zaragoza
David Yllanes, Complutense University of Madrid
Janus is a modular, massively parallel, and reconfigurable FPGA-based computing system. Each Janus module has one computational core and one host. Janus is tailored to, but not limited to, the needs of a class of hard scientific applications characterized by regular code structure, unconventional data-manipulation requirements, and a few Megabits database. The authors discuss this configurable system's architecture and focus on its use for Monte Carlo simulations of statistical mechanics, as Janus performs impressively on this class of application.

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Index Terms:
Monte Carlo simulations, field-programmable gate array, FPGA, scientific computing, Janus
Citation:
Francesco Belletti, Maria Cotallo, Andrés Cruz, Luis Antonio Fernandez, Antonio Gordillo-Guerrero, Marco Guidetti, Andrea Maiorano, Filippo Mantovani, Enzo Marinari, Victor Martin-Mayor, Antonio Muñoz-Sudupe, Denis Navarro, Giorgio Parisi, Sergio Perez-Gaviro, Mauro Rossi, Juan Jesús Ruiz-Lorenzo, Sebastiano Fabio Schifano, Daniele Sciretti, Alfonso Tarancon, Raffaele (lele) Tripiccione, José Luis Velasco, David Yllanes, Gianpaolo Zanier, "Janus: An FPGA-Based System for High-Performance Scientific Computing," Computing in Science and Engineering, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 48-58, Jan./Feb. 2009, doi:10.1109/MCSE.2009.11
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