Janus: An FPGA-Based System for High-Performance Scientific Computing

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 da...

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Published in:Computing in science & engineering 2009-01, Vol.11 (1), p.48-58
Main Authors: Belletti, Francesco, Cotallo, Maria, Cruz, A, Fernandez, Luis Antonio, Gordillo-Guerrero, Antonio, Guidetti, Marco, Maiorano, Andrea, Mantovani, Filippo, Marinari, Enzo, Martin-Mayor, Victor, Munoz-Sudupe, Antonio, Navarro, Denis, Parisi, Giorgio, Perez-Gaviro, Sergio, Rossi, Mauro, Ruiz-Lorenzo, Juan J, Schifano, Sebastiano Fabio, Sciretti, Daniele, Tarancon, Alfonso, Tripiccione, Raffaele, Velasco, J Luis, Yllanes, David, Zanier, Gianpaolo
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Application software
Biology computing
Computation
Computational modeling
Computer simulation
Configurable
field-programmable gate array
FPGA
Janus
Lattices
Modular
Monte Carlo methods
Monte Carlo simulations
Nobel Prize
Parallel processing
Pervasive computing
Physics computing
Scientific computing
Statistical mechanics
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1521-9615
1558-366X
DOI:10.1109/MCSE.2009.11