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Technical Symposium on Reconfigurable Computing with FPGAs - Timetable

Monday 21st February 2005

For a brief description or abstract please click on the relevant link.

A complete list is available on the abstracts page.

Start End Talk Speaker
08.30 09.15 Registration  
09.15 09.30 Welcome Terry Hewitt, The University of Manchester
09.30 09.45 FPGAs for HPC. What and Why? Andrew Jones, The University of Manchester
09.45 10.30 Technical Overview of the Virtex 4 Clive Walker, Xilinx
10.30 11.00 Break  
11.00 11.20 Virtex-II Summary and Demo Using Virtex-II as an HW Accelerator in Conjunction with Xilinx System Generator Clive Walker, Xilinx
11.20 12.20 Starbridge Viva: The Development Environment for High Performance Reconfigurable Computing Rebecca Krull & Kent Gilson, StarBridge
12.20 13.30 Lunch  
13.30 14.30 Key Factors for Successfully Accelerating Applications with Reconfigurable Computing Amar Shan, Cray
14.30 15.15 RPU: A fully Programmable Realtime Ray Tracing Design on FPGAs Dr Philipp Slusallek, Saarland University
15.15 15.45 Break  
15.45 16.30 OSC Experience with FPGAs - Accelerarating Floating Point Performance Using FPGAs Kevin Wohlever, OSC
16.30 17.15 Simulation of Adaptive Optics for Astronomy on the Cray XD1 Richard Wilson, University of Durham
18.00   Evening Event  

Tuesday 22nd February 2005

Start End Talk Speaker
09.00 09.15 Welcome  
09.15 10.00 Mitrion - Fast, Flexible and Effortless Programming of FPGAs Anders Dellson, Mitrion
10.00 11.00 Reconfigurable Computing in SGI System Architecture Michael Woodacre, SGI
11.00 11.30 Break  
11.30 12.15 Engineering Applications on NASA's FPGA-Based Hypercomputer Olaf Storaasli, NASA
12.15 13.00 Where Theory becomes Reality: Commercial Realities of using FPGAs in HPC solutions Allan Cantle, Nallatech
13.00 14.15 Lunch  
14.15 15.00 Implementing HPC Algorithms in FPGA Accelerated Systems Stephen Chappell, Celoxica
15.00 15.45 Panel Discussion  
15.45 16.00 Close Terry Hewitt, The University of Manchester

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