Unstructured mesh computations on CCMs

Configurable Computing Machines (CCMs) have been able to provide orders of magnitude increases in execution rates for applications such as image proce ssing, signal processing, and automatic target recognition. This paper desc ribes the use of CCMs to accelerate complex, large-scale scientific computa tions. These applications present a challenge for CCMs because of their lar ge size, hundreds of thousands of lines of code, and the unstructured natur e of the computations. This paper describes strategies for accelerating sci entific computations on CCMs and demonstrates the effectiveness of one such strategy on the Annapolis Micro Systems WildForce board. Results from this implementation are analyzed. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights res erved.