Title :
PROGRAPE-1: a programmable special-purpose computer for many-body simulations
Author :
Hamada, Tsuyoshi ; Fukushige, Toshiyuki ; Kawai, Atsushi ; Makino, Junichiro
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Gen. Syst. Studies, Tokyo Univ., Japan
Abstract :
We have completed PROGRAPE-1, a programmable special-purpose computer for many-body simulations using FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array). It has pipelines specialized for computations of interactions between particles. The peak performance of calculating gravitational/Coulomb force results in 2.4 Gflops
Keywords :
field programmable gate arrays; many-body problems; physics computing; special purpose computers; 2.4 GFLOPS; PROGRAPE-1; gravitational/Coulomb force; interactions between particles; many-body simulations; peak performance; pipelines; special-purpose computer; Computational modeling; Computer interfaces; Computer simulation; Field programmable gate arrays; Pipelines;
Conference_Titel :
FPGAs for Custom Computing Machines, 1998. Proceedings. IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Napa Valley, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8900-5
DOI :
10.1109/FPGA.1998.707905
