TY - GEN
T1 - Modularizing flux limiter functions for a computational fluid dynamics accelerator on FPGAS
AU - Inakagata, Kenta
AU - Morishita, Hirokazu
AU - Osana, Yasunori
AU - Fujita, Naoyuki
AU - Amano, Hideharu
PY - 2009/11/25
Y1 - 2009/11/25
N2 - CFD is taken notice as a cost effective design tool for aircraft components. UPACS is a convenient CFD platform, since it supports a large degree of versatility using various kinds of solvers. However, its major drawback is a long simulation time. We have developed a UPACS accelerator named FLOPS-2D with multiple FPGA boards, and implemented some core functions. Here, by using flexibility of FPGAs, the selectable functions are proposed. All possible flux limiter functions in MUSCLs are implemented independently, and only required functions are selected and implemented with other modules to form the optimal structure. All implemented functions achieved at least 24 times higher performance than that with the Core 2 Duo, and configurable solvers using a desired flux limiter function and the number of arithmetic pipelines are developed.
AB - CFD is taken notice as a cost effective design tool for aircraft components. UPACS is a convenient CFD platform, since it supports a large degree of versatility using various kinds of solvers. However, its major drawback is a long simulation time. We have developed a UPACS accelerator named FLOPS-2D with multiple FPGA boards, and implemented some core functions. Here, by using flexibility of FPGAs, the selectable functions are proposed. All possible flux limiter functions in MUSCLs are implemented independently, and only required functions are selected and implemented with other modules to form the optimal structure. All implemented functions achieved at least 24 times higher performance than that with the Core 2 Duo, and configurable solvers using a desired flux limiter function and the number of arithmetic pipelines are developed.
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U2 - 10.1109/FPL.2009.5272347
DO - 10.1109/FPL.2009.5272347
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:70449853344
SN - 9781424438921
T3 - FPL 09: 19th International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications
SP - 654
EP - 657
BT - FPL 09
T2 - FPL 09: 19th International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications
Y2 - 31 August 2009 through 2 September 2009
ER -