Το έργο με τίτλο Exploitation of parallel search space evaluation with FPGAs in combinatorial problems: the Eternity II case από τον/τους δημιουργό/ούς Malakonakis Pavlos, Dollas Apostolos διατίθεται με την άδεια Creative Commons Αναφορά Δημιουργού 4.0 Διεθνές
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P. Malakonakis and A. Dollas, "Exploitation of parallel search space evaluation with FPGAs in combinatorial problems: the Eternity II case," in International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications, 2011, pp. 264-268. doi:10.1109/FPL.2011.53
https://doi.org/10.1109/FPL.2011.53
The Eternity II puzzle is a combinatorial search problem which qualifies as a computational grand challenge. As no known closed form solution exists, its solution is based on exhaustive search, making it an excellent candidate for FPGA-based architectures, in which complex data structures and non-trivial recursion are implemented in hardware. This paper presents such an architecture, which was designed and fully implemented on a Virtex5 FPGA (XUP ML505 board). Despite the serial nature of the recursion, as parallelism can be applied with the initiation of multiple searches, the system shows a measured speedup of 2.6 vs. a high-end multi-core compute server.