Thursday, March 13

MS38
Revolutionary Technologies for Acceleration of Emerging Petascale Applications - FPGAs

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Atlanta B

The HPC community is in the midst of a significant paradigm shift, as power limitations are driving hardware architects to increasingly rely multi-core technologies. As a result, computational scientists are examining alternative architectures that address the limitations of modern cache-based designs. In this minisymposium, we examine the potential of several radically different micro-architectural approaches: the heterogeneous STI Cell, the many-core NVIDIA and ATI GPGPUs, and the double-precision—enabled Xilinx FPGA. The invited speakers will present an overview of the hardware, programming environment, and application performance of these architectures, while highlighting their tremendous potential for high-end scientific computations.

Organizer: Jeffrey S. Vetter
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Rupak Biswas
NASA Ames Research Center
Leonid Oliker
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

4:00-4:25 Reconfigurable Computing: the Emerging Paradigm for High-Performance Computing

Alan D. George, University of Florida

4:30-4:55 FPGA Programming Made Easy

Jeff Mason, Xilinx

5:00-5:25 Accelerating Science Applications up to 100X with FPGAs

Olaf O. Storaasli, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

5:30-5:55 Accelerating Cosmology Applications: from 80 Mflops to 8 Gflops in 4 Steps

Volodymyr V. Kindratenko, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois; Robert J. Brunner and Adam D. Myers, University of Illinois