of possible (topical) interest... Stanford EE Computer Systems Colloquium 4:15PM, Wednesday, May 13, 2009 HP Auditorium, Gates Computer Science Building B01 http://ee380.stanford.edu[1]
Topic: Accelerating computation with FPGAs with a seismic computation example Speaker: Michael Flynn Maxeler Technologies (and Stanford) About the talk: For many high performance applications the alternative to the multicore rack is to use an accelerator assist to each multicore node. There are a number of instances of these accelerators: GPGPU, Specialized processors (E.G.IBM's Cell) and FPGAs. At Maxeler we've found that the FPGA array technology wins out on performance for most relevant applications. Given the initial area-time-power disadvantage of the FPGA in (say) a custom designed adder this is a surprising result. The sheer magnitude of the available FPGA parallelism overcomes the initial disadvantage. Using Maxeler's FPGA compiler toolkit, it is now feasible to transform a software application into a data flow graph mapped to an "unconstrained" systolic array. The array structure can be matched to the applications structure and is not constrained to nearest neighbor communications as the FPGA provides a generalized interconnect. As an example we consider modeling problems in seismic data processing. In a typical problem we realize a 2000 node systolic array on 2 FPGA's, each node performing an operation each 4 ns. About the speaker: Michael Flynn is now Professor Emeritus of EE at Stanford. He directed the Architecture and Arithmetic group in CSL for many years. He is now Senior Adviser and Board Chairman at Maxeler. Contact information: Michael J Flynn fl...@maxeler.com[2] Embedded Links: [ 1 ] http://ee380.stanford.edu [ 2 ] mailto:fl...@maxeler.com ABOUT THE COLLOQUIUM: See the Colloquium website, http://ee380.stanford.edu, for scheduled speakers, FAQ, and additional information. Stanford and SCPD students can enroll in EE380 for one unit of credit. Anyone is welcome to attend; talks are webcast live and archived for on-demand viewing over the web. MAILING LIST INFORMATION: This announcement is sent to multiple mailing lists. If you are signed up on our private EE380 list you can remove yourself using the widget at the upper left hand corner of the Colloquium web page. Other lists have other management protocols. +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | This message was sent via the Stanford Computer Science Department | | colloquium mailing list. | | To be added to, or removed from, the list, please go to: | | https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/colloq-local-list | | For more info, send an empty message to colloq-requ...@cs.stanford.edu | | For directions to Stanford, see http://www-forum.stanford.edu | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------xcl+ --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majord...@metzdowd.com