The Arctic Region Supercomputing Center is hosting a symposium and workshop on

High Performance Reconfigurable Computing

August 22-24, 2005

West Ridge Research Building, Room 009

Reconfigurable High-Performance Computing Systems based on conventional processors and Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) reconfigurable processors have been gaining attention. These synergistic systems have the potential of exploiting coarse-grain functional parallelism through conventional parallel processing as well as fine-grain parallelism through direct hardware execution. Many of such systems have recently been developed by major high-performance computing and reconfigurable computing vendors. For the HPCMO and DoD High-Performance Computing centers, this raises a number of questions:

1. What is the real technology readiness level given the applications of interest?
2. What are the sustained capabilities of such machines and how do they compare to conventional high-performance computers?
3. Which DoD applications can benefit from hardware reconfiguration and hardware execution?
4. What are the main considerations for a technology insertion plan?

This symposium will provide a forum for leaders and application developers from the high-performance reconfigurable computing industry, university, and DoD, to address these questions through a series of talks by pioneers in this field. The talks will be followed by open discussions. The symposium will address these questions from the perspectives of applications, programmability, operating systems, architectures, and tools.

Speakers will include:

Dr. Gordon Brebner, Distinguished Engineer, Xilinx
Kurt Dobson, Director of Engineering, Starbridge Systems
Tarek El-Ghazawi, George Washington University
Jon Huppenthal, President and CEO, SRC
Stefan Möhl, Mitrion
Dr. Walid Najjar, Professor, University of California Riverside
Dr. Greg Newby, Acting Chief Scientist, ARSC
Dr. Viktor Prasanna, Professor, Universiy of Southern California
Virginia Ross, Program Manager of Information Technology Division, Rome Air Force Research Lab
Kevin L. Wohlever, Field Director, Ohio Supercomputer Center

The workshop will span August 22 and August 23 and will be followed by a hands-on tutorial workshop on August 24.

Getting to campus: See the map at http://www.arsc.edu . Parking in the Butrovich building *east* side parking lot does not require a permit. (We will make permits available for the Wednesday workshop in the WRRB) Many hotels provide shuttle service to campus.

For workshop participants: You will probably want an ARSC XD1 username. Please bring your proof of citizenship to make this possible. See http://www.arsc.edu/support/accounts/acquire.html for details, but you can wait until Monday to fill out the account forms.

See the agenda for a full schedule of symposium and workshop events.

To register contact , 907-450-8612. Seating is limited.

Arctic Region Supercomputing Center
PO Box 756020, Fairbanks, AK 99775 | voice: 907-450-8600 | email:

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