Re: [Swarm-Modelling] ABMs on Graphical Processor Units

[Marcus G. Daniels]

Roshan D'Souza wrote:
> FPGAs have limited on chip memory and very low off-chip memory 
> bandwidth as compared to GDDR3/4/5. Also, since the code is directly 
> converted to hardware, I am not sure if the real-estate on the FPGAs 
> will be enough for even simple ABMs.
That's a reasonable parameter to optimize, but there's a wide range of 
memory latencies provided by computer systems today with different costs 
and benefits.  Another way to avoid the memory wall is with concurrency 
(more threads than processors).