Use Cases of Reconfigurable Computing Architectures for HPC
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Birds of a Feather
Architectures
TimeThursday, November 17th12:15pm - 1:15pm
Location250-C
DescriptionUse of reconfigurable execution units (mainly FPGAs) for HPC workloads has seen ups and downs, with the last heyday about a decade ago. Significant advances have been made recently in the field of FPGAs and their system integration: new generations provide highly efficient FP units, and fast cache-coherent interconnects to CPUs were announced. On the SW side, the momentum around OpenCL is lowering the entry barriers. This BOF assembles a distinguished panel of speakers, who will give an up-to-date view of existing proof points, specific potential of current and next-generation reconfigurable computing platforms, and remaining limitations to a wider take-up.
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