Keynote 3 — Extreme scale challenges: Can reconfigurable computing come to the rescue?

The international High Performance Computing community has undertaken the challenge of extreme scale computing - breaking the exaflop barrier in the coming decade. The EU, US, and Japan each have their unique approaches to building machines that can compute the largest scientific and data analysis problems imaginable, from cosmology to climate modeling to personal genomics. However, these extreme scale aspirations are beset with extreme scale technology challenges which must be mitigated with solutions to power, data movement, concurrency, memory bandwidth, and heterogeneity. These are familiar hurdles to the reconfigurable computing community, who routinely produce heroic solutions and demonstrate extreme scale performance at extremely low power, high concurrency, high memory bandwidth, and high heterogeneity. Can reconfigurable computing tools and technology provide the answers HPC is seeking?