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Invited Panel Session D:
Reconfigurable Supercomputing: Performance, Productivity, and Sustainability

Chairs:

Herman Lam and Greg Stitt
CHREC
University of Florida, USA

Abstract

Reconfigurable computing (RC) using FPGAs has been widely known to have significant performance advantages compared to microprocessors, in some cases achieving speedup ranging from 10x to 10000x. By combining these performance advantages with low-power requirements, FPGAs have enabled energy-efficient reconfigurable supercomputing, which provides superior computational density per watt compared to traditional HPC systems and alternative acceleration technologies ( e.g. graphic processing units). Although supercomputing has traditionally focused on performance, large-scale RC systems featuring a great number of FPGAs enable supercomputing in situations where power, size, or cost may have previously been prohibitive. This session will focus on research topics related to emerging challenges and advantages of reconfigurable supercomputing, including:

  • Tools, languages, and methodologies for improving FPGA application design productivity
  • Application case studies
  • Reconfigurable supercomputing architectures

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Prof. Herman Lam

Herman Lam is an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Florida, USA. He is a senior research member of the NSF Center for High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing (CHREC). His research interests in reconfigurable computing (RC) include productivity methods and tools for RC application development, particularly as applied to large-scale RC apps for reconfigurable supercomputing. He has authored or co-authored over 90 refereed journal and conference articles and one textbook and has been active on numerous program committees of RC conferences and workshops.

Prof. Greg Stitt

Greg Stitt is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Florida, USA, and is also faculty member of the NSF Center for High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing (CHREC). He holds one patent and has published over 30 papers on topics including reconfigurable computing and embedded systems, with an emphasis on high-level synthesis and hardware/software partitioning. His current research interests include virtual reconfigurable architectures and design automation for reconfigurable computing.

Session D1:
Invited Speakers

  • WORLDCOMP KEYNOTE
    Looking Ahead at Heterogeneous Systems: A Suppliers Perspective
    Jon Huppenthal
    President and CEO of SRC Computers, LLC, Colorado Springs, USA
  • ERSA Keynote
    Novo-G: A View at the HPC Crossroads for Scientific Computing
    A. George, H. Lam (Speaker), C. Pascoe, A. Lawande, and G. Stitt
    University of Florida, USA
  • ERSA Keynote
    Better Languages for More Effective Designing
    Prof. Roger Chamberlain
    Washington University in St. Louis, USA
  • Recent FPGA Advances and Challenges
    Stephen Brown, Vaughn Betz
    Altera Corporation, Toronto, Canada
  • Standards for Sustainability - Growing Markets and Improving Access for Reconfigurable Supercomputing
    Eric A. Stahlberg, President of OpenFPGA Inc.
  • Curing Cancer, One FPGA at a Time
    R. Kent Koeninger
    CEO of Veritomics, Inc.

Session D2:
Panel Discussion

Session D3:
Regular papers

  • Performance Visualization and Exploration for Reconfigurable Computing Applications
    Seth Koehler and Alan D. George
    University of Florida, USA
  • An Open Source Circuit Library with Benchmarking Facilities
    Mariusz Grad and Christian Plessl
    University of Paderborn, Germany
  • Declarative Programming with Handel-C
    Lars Middendorf, Christophe Bobda
    University of Potsdam, Germany

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Dr Toomas P Plaks

Conference Chair
Dr Toomas P Plaks
London
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Important Dates

  • Tech. Sessions Proposals
    Feb. 15, 2010
  • Paper Submission
    Extended Deadline
    March 15, 2010
  • Notification
    April 16, 2010
  • Final Papers
    May 5, 2010

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