Programme - 21st January 2019

Morning Session - Reconfigurable Computing on the Cloud
10:00 - 10:30 Unconventional Computing with Reconfigurable Devices in the Cloud
Michaela Blott - Xilinx (PDF)
10:30 - 11:00 Building massive-scale super-computing systems in the Cloud
Tobias Becker - Maxeler (PDF)
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 - 12:00 FPGAs and the Cloud – An Endless Tale of Virtualization, Elasticity and Efficiency
Oliver Knodel - Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) (PDF)
12:00 - 12:30 Scalable FPGA-based Accelerators in the Cloud
Chrkachrisistophoros Kachris - InAccel (PDF)
12:30 - 13:00 Transparent Offloading of Cloud FPGA Accelerators using OpenMP
Guido Araujo - University of Campinas (PDF)
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
Afternoon Session - The Role of Reconfigurable Computing in Exascale Systems
14:00 - 15:00 Keynote
The NECSTLab Multi-Faceted Experience with AWS F1 - Teaching, Research Framework and Application stack
Marco Santambrogio - Politecnico di Milano (PDF)
15:00 - 15:30 The UNILOGIC scalable heterogeneous HPC architecture
Iakovos Mavroidis - Technical University of Crete (TUC) (PDF)
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30 Reconfigurable Computing in the EuroEXA Project
Paul Carpenter - Barcelona Supercomputing Center (PDF)
16:30 - 17:00 Architectures and Synthesis for Streaming Accelerators on FPGA
John McAllister - Queen’s University Belfast (PDF)
17:00 - 18:00 Panel Discussion
Guido Araujo - University of Campinas
Christophoros Kachris - National Technical University of Athens
John McAllister - Queen’s University Belfast