World's 1st FPGA Portal

The conference, now in its fourth year, is targeted at researchers and vendors actively seeking to leverage more productivity from their application codes by using: GP-GPUs, FPGAs, IBM Cell processors and ClearSpeed processors. The conference will focus on HPC tools and applications to explore the opportunities and challenges experienced by application developers.

Presentations and posters which target the scientific applications community (e.g., scientific applications; HPC software development using high-level programming languages; methodologies and tools for HPRC that allow the scientist to focus on science instead of programming) will be given the highest consideration. The conference will be part of a week of events, including training and user meetings.

The conference will start on Tuesday 1st April 2008 and run until Thursday 3rd April 2008. The general programme for each of the days is shown below.

Tuesday 1st April 2008
9.00 Bus pick up at conference hotels to transfer delegates to ECIT
9.30 Registration and Coffee on arrival at ECIT
10.00 Parallel track workshops/tutorials
11.15 Morning coffee
12.30 Lunch
13.00 Titanic Trail with tour guide including a visit to the Thomson Graving Dock and its the pumphouse.
14.00 Workshops/tutorials resume
15.30 Afternoon tea
16.45 End of workshops/tutorials
17.00 Guided Bus tour of Belfast by Blue Tour
18.30 End of tour. Delegates will be left back to their hotels at close of tour by the bus.

Delegates have a free evening in Belfast

Wednesday 2nd April 2008
9.00 Bus pick up at conference hotels to transfer delegates to ECIT
9.30 Registration and Coffee on arrival at ECIT
10.00 Formal opening speeches
10.15 Morning technical session
11.15 Morning coffee
12.30 Lunch
14.00 Afternoon technical session
15.30 Afternoon tea
16.45 Bus transfers for delegates back to hotels
18.30 Pick up delegates transferred by bus to Parliament Buildings for the conference dinner.
19.00 Conference dinner
21.30 Bus transfers for delegates back to hotels

Thursday 3rd April 2008
9.00 Bus pick up at conference hotels to transfer delegates to ECIT
9.30 Registration and Coffee on arrival at ECIT
10.00 Morning technical session
11.00 Morning coffee
12.30 Lunch
14.00 Afternoon technical session
15.30 Afternoon tea
17.00 Conference close