Reconfigurable Computing Comes of Age
For many years researchers have tried to use reconfigurable computing technology (namely FPGAs) to help solve many computationally demands problems in domains like scientific computing, finance, security and military applications. Significant problems had to be overcome ranging from non-ideal vendor architectures with limited support for dynamic reconfigurations to a lack of programming language abstractions and tools needed to make this technology accessible to mainstream programmers. This sessions draws together speakers that will report the current state of the art in reconfigurable computing and show how computationally challenging problems involving databases, financial computing and network intrusion can now be effectively solved by the special processing capabilities of FPGAs and we also predict the future impact of this technology on mainstream software industry and identify some of the new research challenges in this field.
Speaker Details
Alessandro Forin is a principal researcher at Microsoft Research, where he leads a small research group in Embedded Systems. At Microsoft, he worked on operating systems and networking before switching to architectures and FPGAs.
While on the faculty at Carnegie-Mellon University, he created the first weakly-coherent distributed shared memory system, used for speech recognition. As a co-principal investigator for the Mach OS project (now Apple’s Mac OS X), he worked on shared memory multiprocessors, RISC and 64-bit microprocessors, multiple user-mode operating system emulations (UNIX, VMS, MS-DOS, Windows, MacOS), compilers and debuggers, file systems, and user-mode I/O architectures. Alessandro received his PhD in computer science from the University of Padua, Italy, in 1987.
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- Speakers:
- Alessandro Forin, Koen Bertels, and Wayne Luk
- Affiliation:
- TU Delft, Imperial College London
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Jeff Running
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Alessandro Forin
Principal Researcher/ Research Manager
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