Year: 2008
Type: article
Abstract: 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.
DOI: 10.1109/mcse.2009.11
Authors: Francesco Belletti, Maria Cotallo, A Cruz, Luis Antonio Fernandez, Antonio Gordillo-Guerrero, Marco Guidetti, Andrea Maiorano, Filippo Mantovani, Enzo Marinari, Victor Martin-Mayor, Antonio Munoz-Sudupe, Denis Navarro, Giorgio Parisi, Sergio Perez-Gaviro, Mauro Rossi, Juan J Ruiz-Lorenzo, Sebastiano Fabio Schifano, Daniele Sciretti, Alfonso Tarancon, Raffaele Tripiccione, J Luis Velasco, David Yllanes, Gianpaolo Zanier
Language: English
Subfield: Hardware and Architecture
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2141088024