• DocumentCode
    3285077
  • Title

    Maxwell - a 64 FPGA Supercomputer

  • Author

    Baxter, Rob ; Booth, Stephen ; Bull, Mark ; Cawood, Geoff ; Perry, James ; Parsons, Mark ; Simpson, Alan ; Trew, Arthur ; McCormick, Andrew ; Smart, Graham ; Smart, Ronnie ; Cantle, Allan ; Chamberlain, Richard ; Genest, Gildas

  • Author_Institution
    EPCC & FHPCA, Edinburgh
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    5-8 Aug. 2007
  • Firstpage
    287
  • Lastpage
    294
  • Abstract
    We present the initial results from the FHPCA Supercomputer project at the University of Edinburgh. The project has successfully built a general-purpose 64 FPGA computer and ported to it three demonstration applications from the oil, medical and finance sectors. This paper describes in brief the machine itself - Maxwell - its hardware and software environment and presents very early benchmark results from runs of the demonstrators.
  • Keywords
    field programmable gate arrays; parallel machines; FPGA; supercomputer; Acceleration; Application software; Biomedical imaging; Buildings; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Kernel; Petroleum; Runtime; Supercomputers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Adaptive Hardware and Systems, 2007. AHS 2007. Second NASA/ESA Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Edinburgh
  • Print_ISBN
    978-0-7695-2866-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/AHS.2007.71
  • Filename
    4291933
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=3285077