Research and development on very high-speed and low power simulation systems for material science

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project Area: Materials Design through Computics: Complex Correlation and Non-equilibrium Dynamics
• Project/Area Number: 22104002
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (Research in a proposed research area)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Review Section: Science and Engineering
• Research Institution: The University of Tokyo
• Principal Investigator: INABA Mary 東京大学, 情報理工学(系)研究科, 准教授 (60282711)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): IMAI Hiroshi 東京大学, 大学院情報理工学系研究科, 教授 (80183010) ; SUDA Reiji 東京大学, 大学院情報理工学系研究科, 教授 (40251392)
• Project Period (FY): 2010-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: ネットワーク / アーキテクチャ / アクセラレータ / メモリシステム / 自動チューニング

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We performed studies on High-speed ultra-low-power simulation methodology. The main goal 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). We constructed two computation accelerator, two network accelerator and several other FPGA board to perform network and memory emulation. As results of these studies, we have established basic architecture for the FPGA based platform for simulation in wide application area including material science.
Another important contribution is establishing a new educational unit, “Computing Science Educational Course” as a joint activity between the department of computer science, graduate school of information science and technology and the department of physics, graduate school of science at the University of Tokyo. This educational course is a result of collaboration in this project.

Free Research Field

ネットワーク