Paper Citing NAMD - Abstract
El-Ghazawi, Tarek; El-Araby, Esam; Huang, Miaoqing; Gaj, Kris; Kindratenko, Volodymyr; Buell, Duncan
The promise of high-performance reconfigurable computing
COMPUTER, 41:69-+, FEB 2008
In the past few years, high-performance computing vendors introduced many systems containing both microprocessors and field-programmable gate arrays. In all these architectures, the main application executes on the microprocessors, while the FPGAs handle kernels with long execution times but that lend themselves to hardware implementations. The authors' research revealed that HPRCs can achieve up to four orders of magnitude improvement in performance, up to three orders of magnitude reduction in power consumption, and a two orders of magnitude savings. in cost and size requirements.
