Research Article

First Steps in Porting the LFRic Weather and Climate Model to the FPGAs of the EuroExa Architecture

Table 5

Comparison of ZU9 FPGA double-precision matrix-vector performance with Intel multicore CPU performance.

HardwareMatrix-vector performance (Gflop/s)Peak performance (Gflop/s)Percentage peak

ZCU102 FPGA5.346000.9%
Intel Broadwell E5-2650 v2 2.60 GHz 8-core CPU9.86332.83.0%