
The 15th Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop (RAW 2008) will be held in Miami, Florida, in April 2008. RAW 2008 is associated with the 22nd Annual International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2008) and is sponsored by the IEEE Computers Society's Technical Committee on Parallel Processing. The workshop is one of the major meetings for researchers to present ideas, results, and on-going research on both theoretical and practical advances in Reconfigurable Computing.
Main Focus of the Workshop:
Run-Time Reconfiguration & Adaptive Computing: Architectures, Algorithms, Technologies
Run-Time and Dynamic Reconfiguration are characterized by the ability of underlying hardware architectures or devices to rapidly alter (on the fly) the functionalities of its components and the interconnection between them to suit the problem. Key to this ability is reconfiguration handling and speed. Though theoretical models and algorithms for them have established reconfiguration as a very powerful computing paradigm, practical considerations make these models difficult to realize. On the other hand, commercially available devices (such as FPGAs and new coarse-/multi-grain devices) appear to have more room for exploiting run-time reconfiguration (RTR). An appropriate mix of the theoretical foundations of dynamic reconfiguration, and practical considerations, including architectures, technologies and tools supporting RTR is essential to fully reveal and exploit the possibilities created by this powerful computing paradigm. RAW 2008 aims to provide a forum for creative and productive interaction between all these disciplines.