2014 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report
超高速・超低消費電力物質科学シミュレーション方式の研究開発
| Project Area | Materials Design through Computics: Complex Correlation and Non-equilibrium Dynamics |
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| Project/Area Number |
22104002
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| Research Institution | The University of Tokyo |
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Principal Investigator |
稲葉 真理 東京大学, 情報理工学(系)研究科, 准教授 (60282711)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
須田 礼仁 東京大学, 情報理工学(系)研究科, 教授 (40251392)
今井 浩 東京大学, 情報理工学(系)研究科, 教授 (80183010)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010-04-01 – 2015-03-31
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| Keywords | accelerator / FPGA / material physics / computing science / genetic algorithm / HPC system / programming language |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
We performed studies on High-speed ultra-low-power simulation methodology for material science. The main goal of the study is to establish technologies for high-speed computation, high-speed network and high-speed memory systems to accelerate simulations in material science area. Our focus is the use of FPGA (field programmable gate array) for accelerating computation, network operation and memory access acceleration.
During 2010 ～ 2014 periods, we have constructed two computation accelerator, two network accelerator and several other FPGA board to perform network and memory emulation. As the results of these studies, we have established basic architecture for the FPGA based platform for simulation in wide application area including material science. We also adopt genetic algorithm (GA) to optimize heterogeneous networks that maximize performance and power efficiency. In addition to such hardware systems, we also developed HPC ruby system that consists of static HPC ruby compiler, type inference system and runtime systems for application programmers.
Another important contribution of this project is establishing a new educational unit, “Computing Science Educational Course（学際理学講座 計算物理）” as a joint activity between the department of computer science, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology（情報理工学系研究科コンピュータ科学専攻） and the department of physics, Graduate School of Science（理学系研究科物理学専攻） at the University of Tokyo. This educational course is a result of collaboration in this project.
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| Research Progress Status |
26年度が最終年度であるため、記入しない。
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
26年度が最終年度であるため、記入しない。
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