Acceleration of the Discrete Element Method (DEM) on a Reconfigurable Co-processor

Mathematics

• Discrete Element Method 100%
• Field Programmable Gate Array 65%
• Reconfigurable Computing 30%
• Speedup 29%
• Hardware Architecture 24%
• Scalability 17%
• Simulator 17%
• Decomposition Techniques 16%
• Parallelism 15%
• Domain Decomposition 15%
• Concurrent 15%
• Overlap 14%
• Communication 12%
• Software 12%
• Entire 11%
• Engineering 11%
• Numerical Methods 10%
• Computing 8%
• Design 8%
• Model 4%

Engineering & Materials Science

• Coprocessor 68%
• Finite difference method 56%
• Field programmable gate arrays (FPGA) 45%
• Random access storage 20%
• Numerical methods 16%
• Scalability 14%
• Simulators 13%
• Decomposition 13%
• Computer hardware 10%
• Communication 9%

Chemistry

• Communication 50%
• Decomposition 35%