BPU Simulator

Martin Rehr; Kenneth Skovhede; Brian Vinter

BPU Simulator

Martin Rehr, Kenneth Skovhede, Brian Vinter

Abstract

A number of scientific applications start their life as a Matlab prototype that is later re-implemented in a low level programming language, typically C++ or Fortran for the sake of performance. Bohrium is a project that seeks to eliminate both the cost and the potential errors introduced in that process. Our goal is to support all execution platforms, and in this work we introduce the Bohrium Processing Unit, BPU, which will be the FPGA backend for Bohrium. The BPU is modeled as a PyCSP application, and the clear advantages of using CSP for simulating a new CPU is described. The current PyCSP simulator is able to simulate 220 Monte Carlo simulations in less than 35 seconds in the smallest BPU simulation.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Communicating Process Architectures 2013
Editors	Peter H. Welch, Frederick R. M. Barnes, Jan F. Broenink, Kevin Chalmers, Jan BÃ¦kgaard Pedersen, Adam T. Sampson
Number of pages	16
Publication date	1 Nov 2013
Pages	233-248
ISBN (Print)	978-0-9565409-7-3
Publication status	Published - 1 Nov 2013

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