Accelerating Weather Prediction Using Near-Memory Reconfigurable Fabric

Accelerating Extreme-Scale Numerical Weather Prediction

Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) and climate simulations have been intimately connected with progress in supercomputing since the first numerical forecast wasmade about 65 years ago. The biggest challenge to state-of-the-art computational NWP arises today from its own software productivity shortfall. The application software at the heart of most NWP services is ill-equipped to efficiently ada...

Reconfigurable Spintronic Fabric using Domain Wall Devices

Accelerating Radiosity Calculations Using Reconfigurable Platforms

We describe a feasibility study into accelerating computer graphics radiosity calculations using reconfigurable hardware. A modular hardware/software codesign framework has been developed for experimenting with hardware acceleration of a time consuming step: formfactor determination. We describe a parameterised hardware design pattern, captured in the Handel-C language, which enables rapid expl...

Reconfigurable and Evolvable Hardware Fabric

In this work, we are developing a novel reconfigurable multiprocessor architecture, environment and tools for autonomous onboard processing in space platforms. Among the important features of our method are: reconfigurability and processor adaptability for high rate wireless functions; usage of system-on-chip (SOC) technology to embed hardware modules and reconfigurable blocks; integration of r...

Fabric handle prediction using neural networks

Handle is an important property of fabrics. In this work we tried to predict the handles of some worsted fabrics by their physical properties using a backpropagation network. Also an unsupervised kohonen network was used for clustering the fabrics. Physical properties of fabrics were measured by universal test equipments and hand values of the fabrics were determined by a panel of judges consis...