Fourth International Workshop on High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing Technology and Applications (HPRCTA'10)

Fourth International Workshop on High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing Technology and Applications (HPRCTA'10)

Agenda

Ernest N. Moriale Convention Center, Room 271
Sunday Nov. 14, 2010
9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.


9:00 a.m.
Keynote session
Chair: Tarek El-Ghazawi, The George Washington University

Welcome
Tarek El-Ghazawi, The George Washington University

Keynote: What is the potential for FPGA's in HPC systems in the future?
Steve Poole, Chief Scientist in the Computer Science and Mathematics Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
10:00 a.m.
Break
10:30 a.m.
Presentations
Chair: Volodymyr Kindratenko, NCSA

Comparative Analysis of HPC and Accelerator Devices: Computation, Memory, I/O, and Power
Justin Richardson, Steven Fingulin, Diwakar Raghunathan, Chris Massie, Alan George and Herman Lam

Investigating Resilient High Performance Reconfigurable Computing with Minimally-Invasive System Monitoring
Bin Huang, Andrew Schmidt, Ashwin Mendon and Ron Sass

Optimization and Performance Study of Large-scale Biological Networks for Reconfigurable Computing
Mohammad Bhuiyan, Ananth Nallamuthu, Melissa Smith and Vivek Pallipuram
Noon
Lunch
1:30 p.m.
Industry panel
Chair: Prasanna Sundararajan, Xilinx
(Panel participants: Xilinx, Altera, XtremeData, Convey Computer, Maxeler, SRC Computer)
3:00 p.m.
Break
3:30 p.m.
Presentations
Chair: Craig Steffen, NCSA

A Parallel Hardware Architecture for Information Theoretic Adaptive Filtering
Stefan Craciun, Alan George, Herman Lam and Jose Principe

An Application of High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing in Radio Astronomy Signal Processing
John Ford and Jason Ray

Towards Production FPGA-Accelerated Molecular Dynamics: Progress and Challenges
Matt Chiu and Martin Herbordt
5:00 p.m.
OpenFPGA award
Chair: Eric Stahlberg, OpenFPGA