Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing Technology and Applications

Abstract

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the Third International Workshop on High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing Technology and Applications (HPRCTA'09). High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing (HPRC) based on the combination of conventional microprocessors and field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA) is a rapidly evolving computing paradigm that offers a potential to accelerate computationally intensive scientific applications beyond of what is possible on today's mainstream high-performance computing (HPC) systems. The academic community has been actively investigating this technology for the past several years and the technology has proven itself to be practical for a number of HPC applications. Many of the HPC vendors are now offering or are planning to offer various HPRC solutions. The goal of this workshop, co-located with the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC09), is to provide a forum for academic researchers and industry to discuss the latest trends and developments in the field, and to set a research agenda for the upcoming years on the use of field-programmable gate array technology in high performance computing. The workshop is co-organized and co-sponsored by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, OpenFPGA, and the George Washington University. It consists of the keynote session chaired by Tarek El-Ghazawi (The George Washington University), two academic sessions chaired by Volodymyr Kindratenko and Craig Steffen (NCSA) and the technology panel chaired by Eric Stahlberg (OpenFPGA). We are very pleased to announce the keynote presentation by Alan D. George (University of Florida), Founder and Director of the NSF Center for High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing (CHREC).