Second International Workshop on Heterogeneous High-performance Reconfigurable Computing, Salt Lake CityUT, Vereinigte Staaten

Abbrevation

H2RC

Link

http://h2rc.cse.sc.edu/

City

Salt Lake CityUT

Country

United States

Deadline Paper

2016-09-16

Start Date

2016-09-14

End Date

2016-09-14

Abstract

As conventional von–Neumann architectures are suffering from rising power densities, we are facing an era with power, energy efficiency, and cooling as first–class constraints for scalable HPC. FPGAs can tailor the hardware to the application, avoiding overheads and achieving higher hardware efficiency than general–purpose architectures. Leading FPGA manufacturers have recently made a concerted effort to provide a range of higher–level, easier to use high–level programming models for FPGAs. Such initiatives are already stimulating new interest within the HPC community around the potential advantages of FPGAs over other architectures. With this in mind, this workshop, now its second year, brings together HPC and heterogeneous–computing researchers to demonstrate and share experiences on how newly–available high–level programming models, including OpenCL, are already empowering HPC software developers to directly leverage FPGAs, and to identify future opportunities and needs for research in this area. Submissions are solicited that explore the state of the art in the use of FPGAs in heterogeneous highperformance compute architectures and, at a system level, in data centers and supercomputers. FPGAs may be considered from either or both the distributed, parallel and composable fabric of compute elements or from their dynamic reconfigurability. We particularly encourage submissions which focus on the mapping of algorithms and applications to heterogeneous FPGA–based systems as well as the overall impact of such architectures on the compute capacity, cost, power efficiency, and overall computational capabilities of data centers and supercomputers. Submissions may report on theoretical or applied research, implementation case studies, benchmarks, standards, or any other area that promises to make a significant contribution to our understanding of heterogeneous high–performance reconfigurable computing and will help to shape future research and implementations in this domain. A noncomprehensive list of potential topics of interest is given below: 1. FPGAs in the Cloud and Data Center: FPGAs in relation to challenges to Cloud/Data Center/Supercomputing posed by the end of Dennard scaling 2. Cloud and Data Center Applications: Exploiting FPGA compute fabric to implement critical cloud/HPC applications 3. Leveraging Reconfigurability: Using reconfigurability for new approaches to algorithms used in cloud/HPC applications 4. Benchmarks: Compute performance and/or power and cost efficiency for cloud/HPC with heterogeneous architectures using FPGAs 5. Implementation Studies: Heterogenous Hardware and Management Infrastructure 6. Programming Languages/Tools/Frameworks for Heterogeneous High Performance Reconfigurable Computing 7. Future–gazing: New Applications/The Cloud Enabled by Heterogeneous High Performance Reconfigurable Computing, Evolution of Computer Architecture in relation to Heterogeneous High Performance Reconfigurable Computing 8. Community building: Standards, consortium activity, open source, education, initiatives to enable and grow Heterogeneous High Performance Reconfigurable Computing