ARSC High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing Workshop

August 22-24, 2005

The Arctic Region Supercomputing Center (ARSC)

University of Alaska Fairbanks

Day 1: Monday, August 22
Butrovich Bldg, Room 109

• 8:00-8:30 Breakfast and Registration

Opening Session

• 8:30-9:00 Welcome and Introductions, Frank Williams, ARSC
• 9:00-9:30 ARSC Science Projects and Applications, Greg Newby, ARSC
• 9:30-10:30 High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing and the ARSC Workshop, Tarek El-Ghazawi, GWU
• 10:30-11:00 Break

Session I: HPRC Architectures

• 11:00-11:30 Gordon Brebner, Xilinx Labs
• 11:30-12:00 Cray ARSC Presentation FPGA, Greg Woods, Cray
• 12:00-1:00 Lunch
• 1:00-1:30 SRC Architecture, Jon Huppenthal, SRC
• 1:30-2:00 SGI's Approach to Multi-Paradigm Computing, Ron Renwick, SGI
• 2:00-2:45 Break

Session II: Panel 1 -- Architectures Issues in HPRC

• 2:45-4:00 Panelists: Gordon, Greg, Jon, Ron, Kurt. Moderator: Tarek El-Ghazawi

Session III: Applications and Algorithms I

• 4:00-4:30 HPRC Applications and Systems at ROME, Virginia Ross, ROME AFRL
• 4:30-5:00 Role of Algorithms in HPRC, Viktor Prasanna, USC
• 5:00-6:00 ARSC Machine Room Tour
• 6:00 Dinner at the Alaska Salmon Bake, hosted by ARSC

Day 2: Tuesday, August 23
Butrovich Bldg, Room 109

• 8:00-8:30 Breakfast and Registration

Session III cont: Applications and Algorithms

• 8:30-9:00 Towards HPRC Application Programming in C, David Pointer, UIUC
• 9:00-9:30 Developing Applications for HPRCs, Esam El-Araby, GWU
• 9:30-10:00 Practical Reconfigurable Computing, Mike Babst, DSP Logic
• 10:00-10:30 Break

Session IV: Programming and Tools

• 10:30-11:00 Compiled Accelleration of C Codes for FPGAs, Walid Najjar, UCR
• 11:00-11:30 The Mitrion Platform, Stefan Mohl, Mitrion
• 11:30-12:00 Experience Programming Current HPRCs, Mohamed Taher, GWU
• 12:00-12:30 FPGAs and OSC, Kevin Wholever
• 12:30-1:30 Lunch

Session V: Panel 2 -- Programming and Application Development

• 1:30-3:00 Stefan Mohl, Walid Najjar, David Pointer, Daniel Chavarria. Moderator: Greg Newby
• 3:00-4:00 Open Discussion and Wrap Up
• 4:00-5:00 Discovery Lab Tour

Day 3: Wednesday, August 24
ARSC Training Center -- West Ridge Research Building, Room W009

• 9:00-4:00 XD1 Hands On Tutorial. Offered by Cray and hosted by ARSC