FPGAworld 2010 - Copenhagen

Programme

Key Note Speech
Speeker: Tarek El-Ghazawi, The George Washington University
Title: Computing with FPGAs: Where does it stand and what is next?
Abstract
Accelerating real-life applications using FPGAs has shown unprecedented levels of speed and savings in cost and energy for many applications. Many high-performance reconfigurable computing systems have been produced by top supercomputer manufacturers in almost a fierce race, which suddenly slowed down! Meanwhile, hardware acceleration in general, picked up again and has become the hot paradigm in computing with the top supercomputer system in the world reaching the PetaFLOPS mark using hardware accelerators. General Purpose Graphical Processors (GP GPUs) are now the big fashion, while there is less talk about the ultimate and most flexible accelerator, FPGAs. In this talk, we characterize the niche and the progress of High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing, as well as the associated challenges. We characterize the systemic productivity problem. Then we devise an orchestrated multilevel research agenda that is needed to move forward and identify the potential practical next steps for the community.

Tarek El-Ghazawi is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The George Washington University, where he leads the university-wide Program in HPC. He is the founding director of The GW Institute for Massively Parallel Applications and Computing Technologies (IMPACT). El-Ghazawi is also a founding Co-Director of the NSF Industry/University Center for High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing (CHREC). El-Ghazawi’s research interests include high-performance computing, computer architectures, reconfigurable and embedded computing. He is one of the principal co-authors of the UPC programming language and the first author of the UPC book from John Wiley and Sons. He has received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from New Mexico State University in 1988. El-Ghazawi has published about 200 refereed research publications in his area. Dr. El-Ghazawi is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Computers, served as associate editor and guest editor for other publications, and chaired or co-chaired many international conferences and symposia. Dr. El-Ghazawi’s research has been frequently supported by Federal agencies and industry. He serves or has served on many advisory boards including the Science Advisory Panel of the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center.

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