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Galaxy Evolution with Reconfigurable Hardware Accelerator

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 April 2007

E. Emsellem ,
H. Wozniak ,
G. Massacrier ,
J.-F. Gonzalez ,
J. Devriendt ,
N. Champavert ,
N. Nakasato ,
T. Hamada  and
T. Fukushige
N. Nakasato
Affiliation:
RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
T. Hamada
Affiliation:
RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
T. Fukushige
Affiliation:
K&F Computing Research Co., 840-205 Arai, Hino, Tokyo 191-0022, Japan
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Abstract

We present a novel approach to accelerate astrophysical hydrodynamical simulations. We are developing a special purpose computing system for the simulation of galaxy evolution using Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) chips as the computing engine. Together with our developed programming system, we have implemented computing pipelines for the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method on our PROGRAPE system. The SPH simulations using PROGRAPE is 4-11 times faster than the calculation without the board.

Type
Research Article
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European Astronomical Society Publications Series , Volume 24: CRAL-2006. Chemodynamics: From First Stars to Local Galaxies , 2007 , pp. 291 - 292
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© EAS, EDP Sciences, 2007

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