SYSTEMS

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications will bring together researchers in the area of reconfigurable systems for a five-day workshop this July. The Reconfigurable Systems Summer Institute, July 11-15, will explore the current state of the art in the use of field-programmable gate array (FPGA) co-processors to significantly speed algorithms and will also look farther ahead at the potential of reconfigurable systems to radically alter supercomputing. Information on the RSSI will be posted online at www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Conferences/RSSI/ as it becomes available. The RSSI is sponsored by NCSA’s Innovation Systems Laboratory, which provides early access to, and evaluation of, future generations of computing systems, hardware, and software. The Innovative Systems Laboratory recently joined the steering committee of OpenFPGAwww.openfpga.org, an organization that fosters the use of FPGA technology in high-level applications by bringing together FPGA leaders and pioneers. OpenFPGA is led by the Ohio Supercomputer Center at Springfield, Ohio.