RSSI - Reconfigurable Systems Summer Institute at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign


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RSSI Agenda

Monday, July 10
all day	Nallatech FPGA High Performance Computing Workshop 1040 NCSA

Tuesday, July 11
all day	SRC Users Meeting A meeting agenda* is available in .pdf format* 1040 NCSA

Wednesday, July 12
RSSI'06 All activities held in the NCSA Auditorium unless otherwise noted
8:00 am	Breakfast/Registration NCSA Atrium
9:00 am	Welcome Chip Zukoski, UIUC Vice-Chancellor for Research Thom Dunning, NCSA Director Rob Pennington, Program Chair & ISL Director
9:30 am	Keynote: Programming Reconfigurable Computers: Language lessons learned Duncan Buell, Dean of the College of Engineering and Information Technology at the University of South Carolina
10:30 am	Break
11:00 am	Applications Session Chair: Volodymyr Kindratenko, NCSA A Study into Implementing the Lattice Boltzmann Floating Point Model with Reconfigurable Computing Daniel Denning, Nallatech, Ltd.
11:30 am	Applications Session Chair: Volodymyr Kindratenko, NCSA A Task-based Development Model for Accelerating Large-Scale Scientific Applications on FPGA-based Reconfigurable Computing Platforms Sadaf Alam, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
12:00 pm	Applications Session Chair: Volodymyr Kindratenko, NCSA Addressing Cosmological Questions by using Reconfigurable Computing Robert Brunner, University of Illinois
12:30 pm	Lunch NCSA Atrium
1:30 pm	Libraries Session Chair: Kevin Roy, University of Manchester Analyzing Benefits of FPGA Libraries for Scientific Applications Christopher Rickett, Los Alamos National Laboratory
2:00 pm	Libraries Session Chair: Kevin Roy, University of Manchester Implementing the VSIPL API on Reconfigurable Computers Robin Bruce, Institute for System Level Integration
2:30 pm	Libraries Session Chair: Kevin Roy, University of Manchester Support for Programming Reconfigurable Supercomputers Miriam Leeser, Northeastern University
3:00 pm	Break
3:30 pm	Systems Session Chair: Craig Steffen, NCSA Highly scaleable RASC™ implementations on SGI 4700/RC100 systems Matthias Fouquet-Lapar, SGI, Inc.
4:00 pm	Systems Session Chair: Craig Steffen, NCSA Multi-paradigm Computing at Linux Networx Samuel Brown, Linux Networx
4:30 pm	Systems Session Chair: Craig Steffen, NCSA The SRC-7 System Characteristics and Design Considerations Dan Poznanovic, SRC Computers, Inc.
5:00 pm	Tour of NCSA machine room - Bring an umbrella! Advanced Computation Building 1011 W. Springfield Ave., Urbana
6:00 pm	Reception and poster session: Exploring coarse-grain and fine-grain parallelism on SRC-6 reconfigurable computer - Volodymyr Kindratenko, NCSA Multiple Operation Definitions for Resource Utilization - Daniel Markus, Royal Institure of Technology Mapping Linear System Solver Algorithms to FPGA on the XD1 Using High Level Toolsets - Joseph Fernando, Ohio Supercomputer Center Analyzing Reconfigurable Supercomputer Design for Soft Error Reliability - Heather Quinn, Los Alamos National Laboratory The ILLIAC-6 Program Mapper - Paul Sack, University of Illinois An Algorithmic Replacement for BLAST - Craig Steffen, NCSA A Dynamic Library Interface to Reconfigurable Accelerators - John Kelm, University of Illinois Reconfigurable computing for bioinformatics and high energy physics - Peter McMahon, University of Cape Town The SMART Coprocessor for Genomics Processing - Harrison Smith, Ohio Supercomputer Center The ILLIAC 6 Highly-Scalable Reconfigurable Computing Framework - Sean Keller, University of Illinois Scaling Applications on the SRC Reconfigurable Computers - Dan Poznanovic, SRC Computing, Inc. Experiences with High-Level Programming of FPGAs on Cray XD1 - Thomas Steinke, Konrad-Zuse-Institut für Informationstechnik Berlin NCSA Atrium
7:30 pm	End of Day

Thursday, July 13
RSSI'06 All activities held in the NCSA Auditorium unless otherwise noted
8:00 am	Breakfast/Registration NCSA Atrium
9:00 am	Keynote: Easy FPGA Application Portability: Can It Really Be Done? Eric Stahlberg, Ohio Supercomputer Center
10:00 am	Compilers Session Chair: David Raila, NCSA Using FPGAs in Supercomputers: Breaking with Reconfigurable Computing Stefan Möhl, Mitrionics AB
10:30 am	Break
11:00 am	Compilers Session Chair: David Raila, NCSA Trident: A compiler for Floating Point Applications Justin Tripp, Los Alamos National Laboratory
11:30 am	Compilers Session Chair: David Raila, NCSA An FPGA-oriented target language for HLL compilation Dave Bennett, Xilinx Research Labs
12:00 pm	Compilers Session Chair: David Raila, NCSA Compiling Software Code to FPGA-based Accelerator Processors for HPC Applications Doug Johnson, Celoxica, Inc.
12:30 pm	Lunch NCSA Atrium
1:30 pm	Frameworks and Applications Chair: Eric Stahlberg, OSC Case Studies of FPGA Acceleration in Computational Biology and their Implications to Development Tools Martin Herbordt, Boston University
2:00 pm	Frameworks and Applications Chair: Eric Stahlberg, OSC Experimental Frameworks for Scalable Reconfigurable Systems Ian Troxel, University of Florida
2:30 pm	Frameworks and Applications Chair: Eric Stahlberg, OSC Applying embedded system feature guided architecture development in the high performance computing problem space C. J. Gillan, Queen's University
3:00 pm	Break
3:30 pm	OpenFPGA birds-of-a-feather meetings: APPREQ, BENCH - 1040 NCSA Chair: Eric Stahlberg, OSC GENAPI, CORELIB - 1030 NCSA Chair: Stefan Möhl, Mitrion, and Dan Poznanovic, SRC Computers APPLIB - 1104 NCSA Chair: Thomas Steinke, ZIB
5:30 pm	End of Day

Friday, July 14
all day	Mitrion/SGI "Bring your own code" A meeting agenda* is available in .pdf format* 1040 NCSA

If you have any questions about the RSSI, please contact rssi-info@ncsa.uiuc.edu.

RSSI is co-sponsored by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, the Ohio Supercomputer Center, and the University of Manchester.