Archived CARL 2013 Contents
The Third Workshop on the Intersections of Computer Architecture and Reconfigurable Logic (CARL 2013), Davis, California - Saturday, December 7, 2013, Co-located with MICRO-46
The Workshop on the Intersections of Computer Architecture and Reconfigurable Logic (CARL) is a new forum for presenting FPGA and reconfigurable logic research relevant to a computer architecture audience. In recent years, there has been a renewed interest in reconfigurable computing, driven by the need for greater computing performance and, at the same time, better power and energy efficiency. Reconfigurable computing is a key technology candidate to efficiently leverage exponential device scaling beyond current multicore processors.
This full-day workshop will be held on Saturday, December 7, 2013, co-located with MICRO-46 in Davis, CA.
Program
Two categories of submissions were solicited for review, (1) new unpublished manuscripts and (2) audience-appropriate revisions of papers already published or under review outside of traditional computer architecture forums. (See Call for Papers below.) Each 4~6-page submission was assigned to 4~5 members of the program committee for review. (Submissions selected for presentation at CARL are not published.) In addition, the program include a keynote presentation by Peter Hofstee (IBM Austin Research) and an invited talk by Zhiru Zhang (Cornell).
The final program include also invited talks.
- 8:00~8:50 Breakfast
- 8:50~9:00 Welcome
- 9:00~10:30 Heterogeneous Computing (Chaired by Derek Chiou, UT Austin/Microsoft)
- Keynote: Coherent shared memory reconfigurable acceleration on Power 7 and Power 8, Peter Hofstee, IBM Austin Research Laboratory.
- A Model of Computation and Compiler for Heterogeneous Systems, Kermin Fleming * , Intel Corporation; Joel Emer, Intel/MIT; Michael Adler, Intel Corporation. (PDF)
- 10:30~11:00 Morning Break
- 11:00~12:30 Infrastructure and Environments (Chaired by Kees Vissers, Xilinx)
- A High-Performance Oblivious RAM Controller on the Convey HC-2ex Heterogeneous Computing Platform, Martin Maas * , UC Berkeley; Eric Love, UC Berkeley; Emil Stefanov, UC Berkeley; Mohit Tiwari, UT Austin; Elaine Shi, University of Maryland, College Park; Krste Asanovic, UC Berkeley; John Kubiatowicz, UC Berkeley; Dawn Song, UC Berkeley. (PDF | slides)
- 12:30-1:30 Lunch
- 1:30~3:00 High-level Design and Synthesis (Chaired by Carl Ebeling, Altera)
- Invited Talk: High-level synthesis for FPGAs: from prototyping to deployment, Zhiru Zhang, Cornell University.
- 3:00~3:30 Afternoon Break
- 3:30~4:30 Prototyping and Simulation (Chaired by David Penry, Brigham Young University)
- 4:30~4:45 Closing
Call for Papers
Research Papers. We invite research papers from all areas of FPGA and reconfigurable logic that impact the computer architecture community. Major areas of interests include, but are not limited to:
- New FPGA architectures and reconfigurable fabric designed to support computing
- Heterogeneous computing processors and systems that incorporate reconfigurable logic
- Computation models and programming tools for reconfigurable and heterogeneous computing
- State-of-the-art (ready-for-use) reconfigurable computing platforms and infrastructure
- Algorithms and applications for reconfigurable computing (including FPGA-based prototyping and simulation of computer systems)
- Evaluations of reconfigurable computing in terms of performance, power/energy, flexibility and cost, especially in comparison to other hardware paradigms (multicore, GPU, ASICs, etc.).
We will accept submissions in two categories: (1) new unpublished manuscripts (okay if under review by a conference of a later date), and (2) audience-appropriate revisions of papers already published outside of traditional computer architecture forums (ISCA, MICRO, HPCA, PACT, etc.). Papers selected for presentations will not be published in any formal proceedings.
A submission should be 4~6 pages in double-column format. The review process is not blind; please include authors' names and affiliations. Please clearly indicate whether a submission is category 1 or 2 in the header area of the submission. If category 2, the source materials must be explicitly introduced in both the abstract and introduction.
Questions? Please email questions about this Call-for-Papers to jhoe@ece.cmu.edu.
Submission Site
Please submit your paper through the submission site before October 7, 2013. (We like to thank Microsoft Research for this service.) If you encounter any problems with your submission, please email jhoe@ece.cmu.edu.
Important Dates
- Submission Deadline: October 7, 2013
- Notification of Selection: November 4, 2013
- Final Paper Submission: November 25, 2013
- Workshop: December 7, 2013
Technical Program Committee
- Vaughn Betz, University of Toronto
- Doug Burger, Microsoft Research
- Eric Chung, Microsoft Research
- Srini Devadas, MIT
- Carl Ebeling, Altera
- Shih-Lien Lu, Intel
- Robert Mullins, University of Cambridge
- David Penry, Brigham Young University
- Vijay Reddi, University of Texas, Austin
- Graham Schelle, Xilinx
- Sunil Shukla, IBM
- Satnam Singh, Google
- Chuck Thacker, Microsoft Research
- Kees Vissers, Xilinx
- Tao Wang, Peking University
- John Wawrzynek, UC Berkeley
Organizers
- Derek Chiou, UT Austin/Microsoft
- Joel Emer, Intel/MIT
- James C. Hoe, CMU
