Maxwell - a 64 FPGA Supercomputer
Rob Baxter, Stephen Booth, Mark Bull, Geoff Cawood, James Perry, Mark Parsons, A. Simpson, A. Trew, A. McCormick, G. Smart, R. Smart, A. Cantle, R. Chamberlain, G. Genest · 2007
We present the initial results from the FHPCA Supercomputer project at the University of Edinburgh. The project has successfully built a general-purpose 64 FPGA computer and ported to it three demonstration applications from the oil, medical and finance sectors. This paper describes in brief the machine itself - Maxwell - its hardware and software environment and presents very early benchmark results from runs of the demonstrators.