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In the wide field of parallel architectures, machines involving Fpgas on each node have appeared during the last years. Connecting these reconfigurable components opens new research horizons. Expensive control tasks required by distributed applications may then be accelerated using application specific hard-wired elements.
A derivation from a standard algorithm for distributed simulation and its partial hardware implementation are presented in this paper, providing three magnitude orders speed-ups.
This work is partially supported by the Doctoral-candidate Network for System and Machine Architecture of the DRED
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Beaumont, C. (1995). Using FPGAS as control support in MIMD executions. In: Moore, W., Luk, W. (eds) Field-Programmable Logic and Applications. FPL 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 975. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60294-1_102
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