FPGA acceleration of a quantum Monte Carlo application

Parallel Computing

Volumn 34, Issue 4-5, 2008, Pages 278-291

  Gothandaraman, Akila ^a   Peterson, Gregory D ^a   Warren, G L ^b   Hinde, Robert J ^c   Harrison, Robert J ^c  

^a University of Tennessee   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational chemistry; Hardware acceleration; Monte Carlo; Reconfigurable computing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY; HARDWARE ACCELERATION; RECONFIGURABLE COMPUTING;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 43049162638     PISSN: 01678191     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.parco.2008.01.009     Document Type: Article

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