Lecturers: Manfred Muecke - University of Vienna - Austria |
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Moore's law still
holds and provides us with unprecedented device integration,
resulting in abundant logic resources even on commodity
computing platforms. However, computing has failed to take
advantage of this gift and increase in computing performance is
constantly lagging behind the increase in logic resources. In short:
semiconductor technology has overtaken chip designers, computer
scientists and programmers on the right. This is strongly felt
in high-performance computing (HPC) where most applications can
no longer take advantage of the many cores provided by current
supercomputers. Stalling cores nevertheless take up energy and
in HPC power consumption is becoming an important issue. Among
the more promising future solutions to these problems is
reconfigurable computing (computing on flexible fabrics). In
this series of lectures, we want to explore the reasoning behind
reconfigurable HPC, its prospects, implications and issues. Reconfigurable
Computing is challenging, because it asks many questions at the
same time. But it is also most rewarding, because it forces us
to rethink the way we design computers, interconnects, compilers
and applications. |
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Lecture |
Description |
Lecturer |
Monday 3 March |
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10:15- 10:30 |
Introduction |
School opening - |
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10:30- 11:25 |
Lecture 1 |
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11:35- 12:30 |
Lecture 2 |
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12:30- 14:00 |
Lunch |
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14:00- 14:55 |
Lecture 3 |
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15:05- 16:00 |
Lecture 4 |
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16:00- 16:30 |
Coffee break |
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16:30- 17:25 |
Lecture 5 |
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17:30 |
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Adjourn |
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Tuesday 4 March |
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09:00- 09:55 |
Lecture 6 |
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10:05- 11:00 |
Lecture 7 |
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11:00- 11:30 |
Coffee break |
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11:30- 12:25 |
Lecture 8 |
Reconfigurable HPC II - HW Design Methodology, |
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12:30- 14:00 |
Lunch |
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14:00- 14:55 |
Lecture 9 |
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15:05- 16:00 |
Lecture 10 |
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16:10- 16:25 |
Theme closing |
Transition between HPC and Data Analysis themes: Using HPC concepts in data analysis software (short session) |
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16:30 |
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Adjourn |
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