[hpc-announce] Call for participation - Re-configurable Computing in Exascale - Birds-of-a-Feather at SC'17

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - Birds-of-a-Feather at SC'17

Re-configurable Computing in Exascale
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BoF at the International Conference for High Performance Computing,
Networking, Storage and Analysis, Colorado Convention Center, Denver, CO.

When?  Tue Nov 14 2017, 5:15pm-7pm
Where? Room 405-406-407

While traditional HPC systems continue making great advances, it is
argued that paradigm shifts, including radical new architectures, are
needed to continue scaling performance beyond Exascale at sustainable
cost and energy levels. Such architectures will likely employ
reconfigurability or FPGAs for certain types of parallelism.

This BoF targets persons interested in these subjects aiming to
further understand their role, usage, run-time systems, programming
models, the role of open-source technology and what challenges to
widespread adoption remain. One goal is also to continue to build a
HPC FPGA community.

The BoF will follow the program given below. It will combine interactive
presentations with audience driven discussions. We will close with
a panel.

Program
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Opening remarks (5 minutes)

BoF Speakers: (5 minutes each, followed by discussion)

Mike Strickland, Intel
Kalin Ovtcharov, Microsoft
Glen Edwards, Micron
Richard Veitch, Maxeler
Abhishek Kumar Jain, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Niko Neufeld, CERN
Jorda Polo, BSC
Taisuke Boku, Univ. of Tsukuba

Panel: (15 minutes)
"Re-configurable Computing in 2027
  - A brief look into the crystal ball"

Closing remarks (5 minutes)

Organizers
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Franck Cappello, Argonne National Laboratory
David Danofrio, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Hans-Christian Hoppe, Intel
John Leidel, Tactical Computing Laboratories
Sven Karlsson, DTU
Kentaro Sano, RIKEN
Marie-Christine Sawley, Intel
Kazutomo Yoshii, Argonne National Laboratory

Contact
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Sven Karlsson, DTU, <svea at dtu.dk>