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Programming & design of heterogeneous and reconfigurable systems
04/08/2010 - 05/08/2010
Glasgow University workshop
Growing interest in computing architectures that provide an alternative to the conventional von Neumann model. Increasingly computing systems incorporate heterogeneous elements, either at processor level , as the Cell processor, or at system level, as Graphical Processing Units (GPUs). Furthermore, with the drive towards low-power architectures, both fine-grained reconfigurable fabrics such as Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) and coarse-grained reconfigurable architectures (CGRAs) are gaining in popularity.
All these novel architectures have distinct programming models, distinct concurrency and memory models, not supported well by existing program languages. High-level programming of heterogeneous and reconfigurable systems is therefore a key challenge in programming language research. Equally important, novel architectures must be designed for high-level programmability.
This informal workshop will bring together UK researchers from the heterogeneous and reconfigurable hardware and programming languages communities. Its aim is to increase mutual understanding between communities, encouraging interdisciplinary communication.
The workshop has two invited talks; one by Satnam Singh (Microsoft Research) another to be confirmed and many contributed talks.
We expect plenty of challenging ideas, and plenty of time for discussion.
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