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Dear OpenFPGA colleagues,



We have several updates to share about Novo-G:



.. A new international research community (called the Novo-G Forum,
www.chrec.org/ngforum/) has been established to target and showcase the
advantages of RC and reconfigurable supercomputing on Novo-G. The forum
consists of 10 academic teams, each to have one or more local Novo-G boards
(thanks to donations from Altera and discounts from GiDEL) plus remote
access to the large machine at CHREC.



1. Boston University (Martin Herbordt) [US]

2. CHREC @ University of Florida (Alan George, Herman Lam, Greg Stitt)
[US]

3. CHREC @ George Washington University (Tarek El-Ghazawi, Saumil
Merchant) [US]

4. Clemson University (Melissa Smith) [US]

5. Imperial College (George Constantinides, Christos Bouganis) [UK]

6. Northeastern University (Miriam Leeser) [US]

7. Federal University of Pernambuco (Manoel de Lima) [Brazil]

8. University of South Carolina (Jason Bakos) [US]

9. University of Tennessee (Greg Peterson) [US]

10. Washington University in St. Louis (Roger Chamberlain) [US]



.. Novo-G is now undergoing an upgrade that when complete (hopefully
in a few weeks) will double the RC capacity of this machine, bringing it up
to 192 top-end Stratix-III FPGAs and almost 1TB of memory. The upgraded
machine consists of 24 servers (plus a head node) each with two quad-FPGA
PCIe boards, with 4.25GB memory attached (in three banks) directly to EACH
of the 192 FPGAs. More info on the machine can be found at
www.chrec.org/ngforum.



.. You may recall the one-page app note on our first Novo-G research
app (Smith-Waterman) shared a few months ago. A second Novo-G research app
has recently been completed by two of our students (Carlo and Abhijeet), a
metagenomics app from the Interdisciplinary Center for Biotechnology
Research (ICBR) at Florida called ESPRIT
(http://plaza.ufl.edu/sunyijun/ESPRIT.htm). Our measurements and
projections with this RC-optimized app indicate that ESPRIT performance on
the upgraded Novo-G machine (via 192 FPGAs) will be comparable to about
365,000 Opteron cores, which means that for this app Novo-G is the most
powerful computer in the known world, much faster than anything at
www.top500.org yet far lower in cost, power, cooling, size, etc.



Best wishes,



Alan





__________________________________________________ _________

Dr. Alan D. George, Professor of ECE and Director

NSF Center for High-performance Reconfigurable Computing (CHREC)

High-performance Computing & Simulation (HCS) Research Laboratory



University of Florida, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering

327 Larsen Hall, POB 116200, Gainesville, FL, 32611-6200

Office: (352)392-5225, Fax: (352)392-8671, Lab: (352)392-9034/9046

Email: <mailto:george (AT) hcs (DOT) ufl.edu> george (AT) hcs (DOT) ufl.edu or
<mailto:george (AT) chrec (DOT) org> george (AT) chrec (DOT) org

Web: <http://www.hcs.ufl.edu/> www.hcs.ufl.edu and <http://www.chrec.org/>
www.chrec.org


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