FPGA Seminar

Jun 19, 2023

Auditorium of the IMAG building

22 June 2023 at 2pm

Gricad, MaiMoSiNE and SARI invites you to a seminar on FPGAs, with two presentations:

FPGAs and supercomputing: an overview
Olivier Richard, LIG laboratory For several years now, the field of High-Performance Computing (HPC) has been dominated by GPU accelerators. What about Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)-based accelerators? Their flexibility, the promise of good energy efficiency, technological developments and the state of programming software all raise questions about the value of usin them in this field. In this presentation, we will discuss these different facets in order to better situate the use of FPGAs in HPC.

A hard look at FPGA usability: from past to present
Olivier Muller, TIMA laboratory FPGAs are very efficient architectures, but they lack programmability, which makes them very difficult for the wider computing community to access. I have been working for nearly 20 years on methodologies to make FPGAs easier to use. This presentation will show, in simplified terms, the difficulties involved in making this ‘machine’ accessible and shed some light on their current usability.

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