The FRESH Summit
11 July 2016
Huxley Building, Imperial College London
This Summit covers FRESH: the Future of REconfigurable Systems and their High-level design. It will take place at Imperial College London on 11 July, right after ASAP'16.
The purpose of this summit is to have leaders, researchers, professionals and students in relevant fields to share their insights and vision of reconfigurable systems and their high-level design for exciting applications - especially about the future of these exciting technologies.
This event is an internal event of Imperial College with many renowned invited speakers. The list of confirmed Summit Speakers can be found on the right-hand panel.
Attendance of this one-day Summit is free but registration is required. Our thanks to Maxeler Technologies for sponsoring FRESH.
Summit Schedule
09:00 - 09:15 Registration: Huxley Building Reception Area
09:15 - 09:40 Wayne Luk, Imperial College
FRESH Ideas
0940 - 1015 Georgi Gaydadjiev, Maxeler Technologies (Keynote)
The Future of Reconfigurable Systems: an Industrial Perspective
1015 - 1040
Tarek Abdelrahman, University of Toronto
Overlays: a Solution Paradigm for FPGA High-Level Design?
1040 - 1105
Suhaib Fahmy, University of Warwick
Architecture Centric Overlays for Abstraction and Performance
1105 - 1135
Break
1135 - 1200
George Constantinides, Imperial College
New Vistas in High Level Synthesis
1200 - 1225
Dirk Koch, University of Manchester
FPGA Virtualization for Enabling General Purpose Reconfigurable Computing
1225 - 1250
Terrence Mak, University of Southampton
Reconfigurable Market-on-Chip
1250 - 1400
Lunch
1400 - 1425
John McAllister, Queen's University Belfast
Heterogeneous Dataflow for Heterogeneous MPSoC FPGA
1425 - 1450
Simon Moore, University of Cambridge
Communication as a first class design constraint for reconfigurable systems
1450 - 1515
Jose Nunez-Yanez, University of Bristol
Computing to the Energy and Performance Limits in Heterogeneous CPU-FPGA Devices
1515 - 1540
Wim Vanderbauwhede, University of Glasgow
High-Level Programming of FPGAs using Type-Driven Program Transformations and Cost-Modelling
1540 - 1600
Break
1600 - 1645
Discussion and Wrap-Up
ASAP Conference: 6-8 July 2016
Immediately before the FRESH Summit, the ASAP'16 Conference will take place also at Imperial College.
Summer School on OpenSPL: 12-15 July 2016
Right after the FRESH Summit, there will be a Summer School for a practical implementation of OpenSPL for dataflow computing. It will focus on a tutorial including talks and laboratory sessions given by leading experts from academia and from industry. There will be practical sessions to enable attendants to have hands-on experience of developing solutions using OpenSPL.
The tutorial will also cover how to target Maxeler dataflow systems as a spacial computing substrate. For example, Maxeler Galava PCIe cards present a low-cost platform for academic users that can be programmed with OpenSPL.
The tutorial will also cover in depth some practical applications that are available from the Maxeler App Gallery . This App Gallery is part of the Maxler Maximum Performance Eco System and it has been gaining strong momentum from the OpenSPL user community.
In addition to targeting traditional spatial computing substrates such as Galava or other commercial dataflow cards, various applications targeting the new Juniper QFX-PFA packet flow accelerator switch are also available. The Juniper QFX-PFA switch contains a spatial computing module for accelerating complex network applications with very high throughput and low, deterministic latency. A number of networking applications will be covered in depth.
Registration
Attendance of the one-day FRESH Summit is free. However, space is limited so please register as early as possible, using the link at the top of the page.
Please note that the registration for the Summit and for the OpenSPL Tutorial are separate. If you wish to attend both the Summit and the OpenSPL Tutorial, please register for both of them separately.
Travel Information and Accommodation
The Summit will take place at Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus.
Attendants will be responsible for their own accommodation. Please check availability of local hotels and student accommodation; early booking is recommended. You could also try a booking service.