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The Third International Workshop on Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Architectures for High-Performance Computing (<span class="highlight" id="0.7829431476762514" name="searchHitInReadingPane">CGRA4HPC</span>'24)</div>
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<span class="highlight" id="0.1159962163954622" name="searchHitInReadingPane">CGRA4HPC</span> 2024 will be held in conjunction with IPDPS 2024</div>
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<b>Where:</b> San Francisco, CA, USA</div>
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<b>Website:</b> http://<span class="highlight" id="0.3400478972217811" name="searchHitInReadingPane">cgra4hpc</span>.podobas.net/</div>
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<b>Submission Link:</b> <a href="https://ssl.linklings.net/conferences/ipdps/?page=Submit&id=CGRA4HPCWorkshopFullSubmission&site=ipdps2024" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" id="LPlnk203048" previewremoved="true"><span id="LPlnk203048">https://ssl.linklings.net/conferences/ipdps/?page=Submit&id=<span class="highlight" id="0.17007498499629814" name="searchHitInReadingPane">CGRA4HPC</span>WorkshopFullSubmission&site=ipdps2024</span></a></div>
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<b>Important Deadlines</b></div>
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Paper submission: February 1st, 2024</div>
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Paper notification: February 26th, 2024</div>
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Camera-ready due: March 15th, 2024</div>
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-------------------------- DESCRIPTION ------------------------------</div>
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Coarse-grained reconfigurable arrays (CGRAs) are programmable logic devices that offer plasticity/reconfigurability, albeit at a coarse-grained (word-configurable) level in comparison to fine-grained FPGAs. <font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Such
reconfigurability allows the silicon to be specialized towards a particular application in order to reduce data movement and improve performance and energy efficiency. Unlike their cousins, the Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs),</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> CGRAs
provide reconfigurable Arithmetic Logic Units (ALUs) and a highly specialized yet versatile data path. This ``coarsening'' of reconfiguration allows CGRAs to achieve a significant (custom ASIC-like) reduction in power consumption and</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> increase
in operating frequency compared to FPGAs. At the same time, they remedy and overcome the expensive von Neumann (instruction-decoding) overhead that traditional general-purpose processors (CPUs) suffer from. In short, CGRAs</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> strike
a seemingly perfect balance between the reconfigurability of FPGAs and the performance of CPUs, with power consumption characteristics closer to custom ASICs.</span></font></div>
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The International Workshop on Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Architectures for High-Performance Computing (<span class="highlight" id="0.44336724888094325" name="searchHitInReadingPane">CGRA4HPC</span>) aspires to provide a recurring forum for HPC experts, users
and CGRA hardware researchers from academia or industry <font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">to come together and discuss state-of-the-art CGRA research for use in emerging HPC systems.</span></font></div>
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Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):</div>
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* CGRA Hardware and Architectures</div>
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- Novel high-performance CGRA architectures for use in HPC</div>
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- Energy-efficient architectures (incl. asynchronous/clockless </div>
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CGRAs, power-consumption optimizations, etc.) </div>
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* Hybrid Processor/CGRA Technology</div>
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- Software-programmable CGRAs (e.g., Xilinx ACAP Versal)</div>
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- Processors with a tightly interconnected CGRA subsystem</div>
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- Combination of CGRAs and other emerging post-Moore models (e.g., neuromorphic systems)</div>
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* Programming Models, Compilers, and Middleware</div>
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- Parallel programming language support for programming CGRA </div>
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architectures (e.g., supporting OpenMP or CUDA/HIP for </div>
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programming CGRA architectures)</div>
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- Compilation strategies, algorithms, and methods for mapping </div>
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computations and applications onto modern CGRA architectures</div>
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- Smart middleware and runtime systems for support of CGRAs, </div>
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including multi-CGRA systems for HPC</div>
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- The use of CGRA frameworks (e.g., CGRA-ME and OpenCGRA) to generate and customize architectures</div>
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* Use-Cases and Experiments</div>
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- Experience in porting scientific kernels and applications to </div>
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state-of-the-art CGRAs (e.g., weather/climate codes, CFD, MD, </div>
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- Machine Learning applications and case studies, performance </div>
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and power-efficiency comparisons between traditional systems </div>
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(CPUs/GPUs) and CGRAs</div>
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* CGRAs and Generative Artificial Intelligence <b>(NEW for <span class="highlight" id="0.581530786507886" name="searchHitInReadingPane">CGRA4HPC</span>'</b><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>24)</b></span></font></div>
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- New emerging CGRA-like architectures for Generative AI</div>
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- Case studies and evaluations of CGRAs for (Generative) AI</div>
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We welcome authors to contribute full-length research papers on the topics of interest described above. Contributions should be unpublished and not for consideration in other venues. We will adopt a single-blind review process for <font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">all
papers. Papers should not exceed eight (8) single-spaced pages, formatted in double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style). Accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings, </span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">which
will be distributed at the conference and are submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library after the conference.</span></font></div>
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We also welcome presentations on new and emerging CGRA technologies from industry and startups. These will be presented at a special lightning session in the workshop. Please contact the workshop organizers (podobas@kth.se) if you <font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">are
interested in participating in this event.</span></font></div>
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<b>ORGANIZERS:</b></div>
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Artur Podobas (KTH, Sweden)</div>
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Kentaro Sano (RIKEN, Japan)</div>
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Jason Anderson (University of Toronto, Canada)</div>
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Ahmed Hemani (KTH, Sweden)</div>
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Ahsan Javed Awan (Ericsson, Sweden)</div>
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Boma Adhi (RIKEN, Japan)</div>
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Cheng Tan (Microsoft, USA)</div>
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Jens Domke (RIKEN, Japan)</div>
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Lingli Wang (Fudan University, China)</div>
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Markus Weinhardt (HS-Osnabrueck, Germany)</div>
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Nakashima Yasuhiko (NAIST, Japan)</div>
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Takuya Kojima (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)</div>
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