ABSTRACT

Emerging dimensions of scientific computing have changed the structural requirements of the under laying hardware and software resources. The growing scientific applications are demanding for the high speed computing platforms having the capability of the run time architectural updation. The conventional computing approaches using application specific integrated circuits and programmable general purpose processors are still suffering with the lack of architectural modifications for demanded updation and computing speed respectively, during the life of running applications. The reconfigurable computing is becoming the next generation computing approach as it promises the high level integration of hardware speed and software flexibility at one platform. The reconfigurable computing is intended to fill the gape between the high speed computing platforms like application specific integrated circuits and the highly flexible computing platform like programmable general purpose processors. This research paper briefly investigates the roll of reconfigurable computing systems in the emerging scientific applications.