FPGA Central

Happy Holidays and Year End Greetings to all,

As we bring another year to a close, it provides an opportunity to reflect
back and look ahead on the continually evolving HPC environment and the role
that OpenFPGA has in shaping the future.

· In 2009, OpenFPGA helped to promote and sponsor the MRSC
conference in Berlin. In 2010, the conference is in Rome. The call for
papers is open until January 29 at http://www.mrsc2010.eu/call.

· We also helped to sponsor the SAAHPC conference at NCSA which will
be in Knoxville in 2010. http://saahpc.ncsa.illinois.edu. At the conference
in 2009 we held our annual meeting which included discussions around
standards and announcing the results of the annual elections.

· Most recently, at the HPRCTA workshop at SC09, with our annual
OpenFPGA award, we recognized recent work at CHREC to help advance standards
for interoperability involving reconfigurable computing.

· OpenFPGA also partnered with Wittenberg University’s Center for
Applied Management in preparing the booth at SC09, providing opportunities
for even non-technical students to learn more about reconfigurable
computing, high-performance computing and the industry as a whole.

In response to a rapidly changing HPC environment, 2009 has been a year of
reevaluation and reaffirmation of opportunities for standards in
reconfigurable computing applications and the primary directions for
OpenFPGA. I am happy to report that the primary aims still remain key –
standards, education, and community. These aims remain central to the
discussions and directions of emerging heterogeneous multicore computing
systems into the foreseeable future.

OpenFPGA continues to evolve and mature. Early in 2009, OpenFPGA began the
process to become recognized by the US government as a tax-deductible 501c3
organization. We successfully received that recognition late in the year.
And while I cannot provide specific tax advice, it is highly probably that
this new status for the organization may provide new opportunities and
benefits for contributing to the effort.

Also, over the past several months, the organization has been fortunate to
have additional personnel support to begin implementing several of the ideas
that have resulted from discussions over the past several years. These
projects are now providing opportunities for students to gain increased
awareness of reconfigurable and heterogeneous computing as some of the
foundational pieces are constructed for a new set of services to help
promote standards, education and a growing global community in
reconfigurable computing.

The coming year promises to be one of increased opportunity for members to
be increasingly involved in activities for OpenFPGA, individually as well as
collectively.

In closing, OpenFPGA continues to rely on your support for its activities to
pursue open standards for reconfigurable computing. If you have not signed
up for membership or have not renewed for 2010, consider making that small
commitment. Your support is key for OpenFPGA to continue its activities to
benefit the reconfigurable computing community worldwide.

Thank you all for a wonderful year.

Sincerely,

Eric Stahlberg
President- OpenFPGA

www.openfpga.org

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