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


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RSSI Agenda

Tuesday, July 17
8:00 am	Registration/breakfast NCSA Lobby
9:00 am	Vendors session Nallatech Application Accelerator Workshop, 1040 NCSA SGI/Mitrionics Workshop, 1122 NCSA SRC Users Meeting, 1104 NCSA
10:30 am	Break
11:00 am	Vendors session Nallatech Application Accelerator Workshop, 1040 NCSA SGI/Mitrionics Workshop, 1122 NCSA SRC Users Meeting, 1104 NCSA
12:30 pm	Lunch
2:00 pm	Vendors session Nallatech Application Accelerator Workshop, 1040 NCSA SGI/Mitrionics Workshop, 1122 NCSA SRC Users Meeting, 1104 NCSA
3:30 pm	Break
4:00 pm	Vendors session Nallatech Application Accelerator Workshop, 1040 NCSA SGI/Mitrionics Workshop, 1122 NCSA SRC Users Meeting, 1104 NCSA
5:30 pm	End of day

Wednesday, July 18
8:00 am	Registration/breakfast NCSA Lobby
9:00 am	RSSI Opening Chair: Rob Pennington, NCSA Rob Pennington, NCSA Deputy Director Melanie Loots, Associate Vice Chancellor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Thom Dunning, NCSA Director Keynote Address: Reconfigurable Computing: From Satellites to Supercomputers Quicktime video (~589 MB) Prof. Alan George, Director of NSF Center for High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing (CHREC) NCSA Auditorium
10:30 am	Break
11:00 am	Technology Chair: Volodymyr Kindratenko, NCSA FPGA HPC—The road beyond processors Jeff Mason, Xilinx Exhibitor presentations (5 minutes each): Impulse: Accelerating HPC Applications Using Impulse C, David Pellerin CebaTech: A New Electronic System Level Methodology for Complex Chip Designs, Elaine Jones DRC: Acceleration technologies for high-performance computing, Giang Le XtremeData: Why FPGAs? (Many questions and a few answers...), Ravi Chandran Pico Computing, Robert Trout
12:00 pm	Lunch and Exhibits
1:30 pm	Technology Chair: Eric Stahlberg, Ohio Supercomputer Center Double Precision Floating Point on FPGAs Martin Langhammer, Altera Heterogeneous Processing Systems David Mayhew, AMD Accelerators in Cray's Adaptive Supercomputing Dave Strenski, Cray
3:00 pm	Break and Exhibits
3:30 pm	Applications Chair: Craig Steffen, NCSA Maxwell: A 64 FPGA Supercomputer Rob Baxter, University of Edinburgh Hardware acceleration of a Quantum Monte Carlo application Akila Gothandaraman, University of Tennessee High Performance FPGA based BLAS accelerator Lotfi Guedria, CETIC Dynamic load-balancing on multi-FPGA systems: a case study Volodymyr Kindratenko, NCSA
5:00 pm	Break and Exhibits
5:30 pm	Reception, Exhibits, and Poster Session Two Electron Integrals calculation accelerated with Double Precision exp() Hardware Module Maciej Wielgosz, Akademia Górniczo-Hutnicza Angular Power Spectrum Estimation using High Performance Reconfigurable Computing Brett Hayes, University of Illinois Accelerating Genome Sequencing 100X with FPGAs Olaf Storaasli, Oak Ridge National Laboratory SRC-6 Implementation of Contrast Agent Flow and Diffusion Model for Macromolecules in Tumors David Meixner, NCSA An Attempt at Face Detection on an SRC-6 David Meixner, NCSA Hardware Accelerated Scalable Parallel Random Number Generators JunKyu Lee, University of Tennessee "Hardware Acceleration of the 3D Discrete Element Method" Depeng Yang, University of Tennessee Radio Astronomy Signal Processing for Pulsar Science using High Performance Reconfigurable Computers Peter McMahon, University of Cape Town Performance Analysis of SGI RASC RC100 Blade on 1D DWT Abhishek Mitra, University of California Riverside "Exploring Reconfigurable Technologies for the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration" Craig Steffen, NCSA Visions for Application Development on Hybrid Computing Systems Joseph Lancaster and Roger Chamberlain, Washington University in St. Louis Automated Constraint-based Hardware Architecture Generation for Reconfigurable Computing Systems Matthew Areno, Utah State University NCSA Lobby
7:30 pm	End of Day

Thursday, July 19
8:00 am	Breakfast NCSA Lobby
8:30 am	Technology Chair: Craig Steffen, NCSA Why FPGAs will win the Accelerator Battle: Building Computers that Minimize Data Movement Allan Cantle, Nallatech Intel® QuickAssist Technology Enabled FSB-FPGA Application Accelerators Avinash Palaniswamy, Intel SRC 2007 and Beyond Jon Huppenthal, SRC Computers
10:00 am	Break and Exhibits
10:30 am	Libraries Chair: David Raila, NCSA OpenFPGA CoreLib Core Library Interoperability Effort Mike Wirthlin, Brigham Young University Molecular Simulations with Hardware Accelerators: A Portable Interface Definition for FPGA Supported Acceleration Eric Stahlberg, Ohio Supercomputer Center Portable Library Development for Reconfigurable Computing Systems Esam El-Araby, The George Washington University An Elementary Transcendental Function Core Library for Reconfigurable Computing Robin Bruce, Institute for System-Level Integration
12:00 pm	Lunch and Exhibits
1:30 pm	Applications Chair: Volodymyr Kindratenko, NCSA NCBI BLAST accelerated on the Mitrion Virtual Processor Stefan Möhl, Mitrionics FPGA acceleration for production use Matthias Fouquet-Lapar, SGI Mercury BLASTN: Faster DNA Sequence Comparison Using a Streaming Hardware Architecture Jeremy Buhler, Washington University in St. Louis
3:00 pm	Break and Exhibits
3:30 pm	OpenFPGA Working Groups Chair: Eric Stahlberg
6:00 pm	End of Day

Friday, July 20
8:00 am	Breakfast NCSA Lobby
8:30 am	Performance Analysis Chair: David Raila, NCSA Challenges for Performance Analysis in High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing Seth Koehler, University of Florida Application and Hardware Analysis To Predict Performance Craig Steffen, NCSA Performance evaluation of FPGA-based Cellular Automata accelerators Syed Murtaza, University of Amsterdam
10:00 am	Break
10:30 am	Applications Chair: Craig Steffen, NCSA "High Performance Molecular Dynamics Simulations with FPGA Coprocessors" Martin Herbordt, Boston University Compiled Code Acceleration of NAMD on FPGAs Jason Villarreal, University of California, Riverside Mapping Sparse Matrix-Vector Multiplication on FPGAs Junqing Sun, University of Tennessee Exploring Accelerating Science Applications with FPGAs Olaf Storaasli, Oak Ridge National Lab
12:30 pm	End of Day

Questions? Contact rssi@ncsa.uiuc.edu. RSSI is co-sponsored by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, OpenFPGA, and the University of Manchester.