No. 28 (00110)

Family name : Tessarotto
Given name : Marco
Affiliation : Consortium for Magnetofluid Dynamics
Abbreviation : CMFD
E-mail address : marco.tessarotto@cmfd.univ.trieste.it
Title : Efficient Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) based algorithms
        for fluid and magnetofluid dynamics: implementation and
        optimization issues (*)
Authors : Marco Tessarotto
Abstract : 
Already known since the early nineties, the technology of Field
Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) has recenty become increasingly
attractive, as compared to complex ASIC designs, not only for their
superior degree of flexibility and freedom of programmability, both in
hardware and in software, but also because new powerful FPGA chips are
becoming available. The new FPGA's might allow, in principle, not only
more advanced applications, but even foster the possible advent of an
entirely new generation of dedicated, compact, yet powerful,
hypercomputers [1], with entirely new hardware-optimized features.
Although still susceptible to important developments, FPGA's appear very
promising for developing dedicated, computationally intensive, software
applications, especially for real-time numerical simulations in
computational fluid and magnetofluid dynamics. Purpose of this work is
the development, implementation and analysis of FPGA-based,
Computational Fluid Dynamics and Magnetohydrodynamic algorithms [2],
together with the systematic investigation of their performance and the
search of optimization criteria for real-time simulations.

(*) Work partially supported by the Consortium for Magnetofluid
Dynamics, University of Trieste, Italy.

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Reconfigurable Hypercomputer", 5th MAPLD Conference, Sept 10-12, 2002.
[2] Singleterry, R., Sobieski, J. and Brown, S.; Field-Programmable Gate
Array Computer in Structural Analysis: An Initial Exploration, AIAA 43rd
SDM April 22-25, 2002.