Title :
Realising massively concurrent systems on the SPACE machine
Author :
Milne, George ; Cockshott, Paul ; McCaskill, George ; Barrie, Peter
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Strathclyde Univ., Glasgow, UK
Abstract :
Highly concurrent systems occur frequently in the physical world. This paper focuses on a class of systems characterised as being highly concurrent and which are composed out of many simple parts which interact with other parts in their locality. It discusses how to describe these systems and introduces a cellular automata type of architecture which is used to simulate these systems directly in hardware, with physical concurrency being realised by true hardware concurrency. The architecture of the SPACE machine (Scalable Parallel Architecture for Concurrency Experiments), which is constructed from reconfigurable FPGA logic, is introduced and it is demonstrated how to simulate road traffic systems using it
Keywords :
cellular arrays; cellular automata; digital simulation; reconfigurable architectures; road traffic; Algotronix CAL chip; SPACE machine; Scalable Parallel Architecture for Concurrency Experiments; cellular automata; hardware concurrency; physical concurrency; reconfigurable FPGA logic; road traffic systems; urban traffic flow; Application software; Circuit simulation; Computational modeling; Concurrent computing; Emulation; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Road vehicles; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control;
Conference_Titel :
FPGAs for Custom Computing Machines, 1993. Proceedings. IEEE Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Napa, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-3890-7
DOI :
10.1109/FPGA.1993.279482
