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Evaluating the performance of space plasma simulations using FPGAs

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posted on 2023-06-07, 20:22 authored by Ben Popoola, Paul Gough
This paper analyses the performance of a custom compute machine, that performs electrostatic plasma simulations, using Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). Although FPGAs run at slower clock speeds than their off-the-shelf counterparts, the processing power lost in the reduced number of clock cycles per second is quickly recovered in the high degree of spatial parallelism that is achievable within the devices. We describe the development of the architecture of the machine and its support for the C-programming language via the use of a cross-compiler. Results are presented and a discussion is given on the constraints of FPGAs in particular and the hardware design process in general.

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Publication status

  • Published

ISSN

0302-9743

Publisher

Springer

Volume

2565

Page range

169-188

Pages

693.0

Book title

High Performance Computing for Computational Science — VECPAR 2002 5th International Conference Porto, Portugal, June 26–28, 2002 Selected Papers and Invited Talks

Place of publication

Berlin & Heidelberg

ISBN

9783540008521

Series

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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  • Engineering and Design Publications

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Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Editors

Jack Dongarra, A Augusto Sousa, José M L M Palma, Vincente Hernández

Legacy Posted Date

2012-02-06

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