25th Anniversary of Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop
Official website: raw.necst.it
May 21-22 2018. Vancouver, British Columbia CANADA

The 25th Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop (RAW 2018) will be held in Vancouver, British Columbia CANADA in May 2018. RAW 2018 is associated with the 32nd Annual IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IEEE IPDPS 2018) and is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society and the Technical Committee on Parallel Processing. The workshop is one of the major meetings for researchers to present ideas, results, and on-going research on both theoretical and practical advances in Reconfigurable Computing.

A reconfigurable computing environment is characterized by the ability of underlying hardware architectures or devices to rapidly alter (often on the fly) the functionalities of their components and the interconnection between them to suit the problem at hand. The area has a rich theoretical tradition and wide practical applicability. There are several commercially available reconfigurable platforms (FPGAs and coarse-grained devices) and many modern applications (including embedded systems and HPC) use reconfigurable subsystems. An appropriate mix of theoretical foundations and practical considerations, including algorithms architectures, applications, technologies and tools, is essential to fully exploit the possibilities offered by reconfigurable computing. The Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop aims to provide a forum for creative and productive interaction for researchers and practitioners in the area.

Advance Program

May 21, 2018
08.00 - 08.15	Registration
08.15 - 08.30	Opening
08.30 - 09.40	Invited session: Future trends in reconfigurable computing Session chair: Marco Santambrogio, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
	Custom Machine Learning Architectures Wayne Luk - Professor of Computer Engineering at Imperial College London
09.40 - 10.05	Short paper introductions session day 1 Session chair: Alberto Scolari, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
34	Syed Waqar Nabi and Wim Vanderbauwhede: MP-STREAM: A Memory Performance Benchmark for Design Space Exploration on Heterogeneous HPC Devices
36	Luca Stornaiuolo, Alberto Parravicini, Donatella Sciuto and Marco Santambrogio: FIDA: a framework to automatically integrate FPGA kernels within Data-Science applications (Download slides)
32	Tien Thanh Nguyen, Sebastien Pillement, Mathieu Thevenin, Anthony Mouraud, Gwenole Corre and Olivier Pasquier: High-Level Reliability Evaluation of Reconfiguration-Based Fault Tolerance Techniques
5	Florian Oszwald, Jürgen Becker, Philipp Obergfell and Matthias Traub: Dynamic reconfiguration for real-time automotive embedded systems in fail-operational context
50	François Galea, Sergiu Carpov, Lilia Zaourar: Multi-Start Simulated Annealing for Partially-Reconfigurable FPGA Floorplanning
10.05 - 10.40	Coffee break and interactive session short papers day 1
10.40 - 12.20	Session 1: Platforms and memory Session chair: Lorenzo Di Tucci, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
15	Pekka Jääskeläinen, Aleksi Tervo, Guillermo Payá Vayá, Timo Viitanen, Nicolai Behmann, Jarmo Takala and Holger Blume: Transport-Triggered Soft Cores
42	Francesco Peverelli, Marco Rabozzi, Emanuele Del Sozzo and Marco Domenico Santambrogio: OXiGen: A tool for automatic acceleration of C functions into dataflow FPGA-based kernels
13	William Allcock, Bennett Bernardoni, Colleen Bertoni, Neil Getty, Joseph Insley, Michael E. Papka, Silvio Rizzi and Brian Toonen: RAM as a Network Managed Resource
41	Catalin Bogdan Ciobanu, Giulio Stramondo, Cees De Laat and Ana Lucia Varbanescu: MAX-PolyMem: High-Bandwidth Polymorphic Parallel Memories for DFEs
12.20 - 13.30	Lunch
13.30 - 15.10	Session 2: Applications Session chair: Marco Rabozzi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
11	Enrico Reggiani, Giuseppe Natale, Carlo Moroni and Marco Domenico Santambrogio: An FPGA-based Acceleration Methodology and Performance Model for Iterative Stencils (Download slides)
16	Hamid Reza Zohouri, Artur Podobas and Satoshi Matsuoka: High-Performance High-Order Stencil Computation on FPGAs Using OpenCL
28	Alessandro Comodi, Davide Conficconi, Alberto Scolari and Marco Santambrogio: TiReX: Tiled Regular eXpression matching architecture
23	Artur Podobas and Satoshi Matsuoka: Hardware Implementation of POSITs and their application in FPGAs
15.10 - 16.00	Coffee break and interactive session 1 and 2
16.00 - 17.30	Invited session: 25 years of reconfigurable computing Session chair: Diana Goehringer, TU Dresden, Germany
	F for FPGA or Future? Kaveh Aasaraai - Hardware Engineer at Jump Trading LLC
	25 Years RAW Spirit: Reconfigurable Models, Architectures, Innovations Jürgen Becker - Professor of Embedded Electronic Systems at the Institut fuer Technik der Informationsverarbeitung (ITIV) at the University of Karlsruhe Viktor K. Prasanna - Professor of Electrical Engineering and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern California

May 22, 2018
08.30 - 09.30	IPDPS Keynote
09.30 - 10.00	Coffee break
10.00 - 11.00	Invited talk: A Possible Future of Reconfigurable Logic in Data Centers Derek Chiou - Partner Group Hardware Engineering Manager at Microsoft Session chair: Ken Eguro, Microsoft Research
11.00 - 12.15	Session 3: Machine learning 1 Session chair: Giuseppe Natale, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
18	Luca Cerina, Giuseppe Franco, Pierandrea Cancian and Marco Domenico Santambrogio: Robustness of Surface EMG classifiers with Fixed-Point Decomposition on Reconfigurable Architecture
7	Florian Kaestner, Benedikt Janssen, Frederik Kautz, Michael Huebner and Giulio Corradi: Hardware/Software Codesign for Convolutional Neuronal Networks exploiting Dynamic Partial Reconfiguration on PYNQ
14	Chaim Baskin, Natan Liss, Evgenii Zheltonozhskii, Alex M. Bronstein, Avi Mendelson: Streaming Architecture for Large-Scale Quantized Neural Networks on an FPGA-Based Dataflow Platform
12.15 - 13.30	Lunch
13.30 - 13.50	Short paper introduction session day 2 Session chair: Marco Arnaboldi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
9	Peter Rouget, Benoît Badrignans, Pascal Benoit and Lionel Torres: FPGA implementation of pattern matching for Industrial Control Systems
29	Lorenzo Di Tucci, Davide Conficconi, Alessandro Comodi, Steven Hofmeyr, David Donofrio and Marco Domenico Santambrogio: A Parallel, Energy Efficient Hardware Architecture for the merAligner on FPGA using Chisel HDL
26	Ayan Palchaudhuri and Anindya Sundar Dhar: Redundant Binary to Two’s Complement Converter on FPGAs through Fabric Aware Scan Based Encoding Approach for Fault Localization Support
17	Matthias Goebel, Ilja Behnke and Ben Juurlink: An Application-Specific Memory Management Unit for FPGA-SoCs
13.50 - 15.15	Session 4: Machine learning 2 Session chair: Luca Stornaiuolo, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
30	Niccolò Raspa, Giuseppe Natale, Marco Bacis and Marco Domenico Santambrogio: A Framework with Cloud Integration for CNN Acceleration on FPGA Devices
27	Daniel Holanda Noronha, Philip Leong and Steven Wilton: Kibo: An Open-Source Fixed-Point Tool-kit for Training and Inference in FPGA-Based Deep Learning Networks
38	Menbere Kina Tekleyohannes, Christian Weis, Norbert Wehn, Martin Klein and Michael Siegrist: A Reconfigurable Accelerator for Morphological Operations
15.15 - 16.30	Coffee break, interactive session 3 and 4 and interactive session short paper day 2
16.30 - 17.00	Award session and closing remarks

Topics of interest

Paper Submission

All manuscripts will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. Submissions should be a complete manuscript or, in special cases, may be a summary of relevant work. Manuscript for full papers should be not exceed 8 single-spaced, double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5X11 inch pages (IEEE conference style) including references, figures and tables. Manuscript for short papers should be not exceed 4 single-space, double-column pages. Papers are to be submitted through EasyChair. Submitted papers should not have appeared in or be under consideration for a different workshop, conference or journal. It is also expected that all accepted papers (regular or short) will be presented at the workshop by one of the authors.

Publication

IEEE CS Press will publish the IPDPS symposium and workshop abstracts as a printed volume. Proceedings of the workshops are distributed at the conference and are submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library after the conference.

Important Dates

Submission deadline February 9, 2018
Decision notification March 3, 2018
Camera-Ready papers due March 16, 2018

Organization

 

Workshop Chairs

• Marco D. Santambrogio, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Diana Goehringer, TU Dresden, Germany

Program Chairs

• Dirk Stroobandt, Ghent University, Belgium
• Ken Eguro, Microsoft Research

Steering Committee

• Juergen Becker, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
• Viktor K. Prasanna, University of Southern California, USA
• Ramachandran Vaidyanathan, Louisiana State University, USA

Steering Chair:

• Viktor K. Prasanna, University of Southern California, USA

Publicity Co-Chairs

• Brian Veale, IBM, USA
• Ivan Beretta, University of Westminster, UK
• Laura Nacci, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Webmaster and submission Chair

• Marco Rabozzi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Program Committee

• Juergen Becker, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
• Ivan Beretta, Imperial College London
• Michaela Blott, Xilinx
• Catalin Ciobanu, University of Amsterdam
• Bruce Cockburn, University of Alberta
• Jose Coutinho, Imperial College of London
• Rene Cumplido, INAOE
• Ken Eguro, Microsoft Research
• Suhaib Fahmy, University of Warwick
• Diana Goehringer, TU Dresden, Germany
• Guy Gogniat, Université de Bretagne Sud
• Martin Herbordt, Boston University
• Christian Hochberger, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt
• Michael Huebner, Ruhr-University Bochum
• Eddie Hung, Imperial College London
• Andreas Koch, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt
• Dirk Koch, University of Manchester
• Akash Kumar, National University of Singapore
• Martin Langhammer, Intel
• Miriam Leeser, Northeastern University
• Philip Leong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Gayatri Mehta, University of North Texas
• Nele Mentens, KU Leuven
• Antonio Miele, Politecnico di Milano
• Seda Ogrenci-Memik, Northwestern University
• Francesca Palumbo, UNISS
• Dionisios Pnevmatikatos, FORTH-ICS & Technical University of Crete
• Mario Porrmann, Bielefeld University
• Viktor Prasanna, University of Southern California
• Marco Domenico Santambrogio, Politecnico di Milano
• Donatella Sciuto, Politecnico di Milano
• Dimitrios Soudris, National Technical University of Athens
• Dirk Stroobandt, Ghent University
• Marco Rabozzi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Ramachandran Vaidyanathan, Louisiana State University
• Wim Vanderbauwhede, University of Glasgow
• Ana Varbanescu, University of Amsterdam
• Brian F. Veale, IBM
• Sara Vinco, Politecnico di Torino
• Steve Wilton, University of British Columbia

Greetings

We would like to express our sincere thanks to all those who have contributed to the success of the workshop. In particular, we would like to thank all the members of the program committee and reviewers for their valuable time and effort in the review process, and to provide constructive feedback to the authors. We also acknowledge the support of the IPDPS organizing committee and IEEE Computer Society in producing these proceedings. A special mention has to be done for the EXTRA EU project members. We do really want to thank the members of the EXTRA EU project ("Exploiting eXascale Technology with Reconfigurable Architectures" - http://extrahpc.eu/ - funded from the EU Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant No 671653) for their support in organizing this edition of RAW. Finally, we thank all authors who contributed to this workshop, for submitting their manuscript and sharing their latest research results with the RAW community. We hope that you will find in these proceedings and workshop a valuable platform as well as source of information for your work.