Work-in-Progress: Reconfigurable accelerator on FPGA for scientific computing : From a space-borne instrument to a high-performance computing data center

We present a scientific computing accelerator on FPGA that uses hundreds of processors working in parallel organized in several SIMD cores. The accelerator is installed within an Ethernet network and acts as a high-performance computing server. A prototype is presented for processing solar images and achieves a great performance that can compete with a cluster.