Reiner Hartenstein (keynote address): "From Organic Computing to Reconfigurable Computing"; The 8th Workshop on Parallel Systems and Algorithms (PASA 2006), co-located with the 19th Int'l Conf. on Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS 2006) Frankfurt/Main, Germany, March 13-16, 2006 1
Reiner Hartenstein, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany http://hartenstein.de
From Organic Computing to Reconfigurable Computing
Reiner Hartenstein (keynote address): "From Organic Computing to Reconfigurable Computing"; The 8th Workshop on Parallel Systems and Algorithms (PASA 2006), co-located with the 19th Int'l Conf. on Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS 2006) Frankfurt/Main, Germany, March 13-16, 2006 2
Reiner Hartenstein, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany http://hartenstein.de
Reiner Hartenstein (keynote address): "From Organic Computing to Reconfigurable Computing"; The 8th Workshop on Parallel Systems and Algorithms (PASA 2006), co-located with the 19th Int'l Conf. on Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS 2006) Frankfurt/Main, Germany, March 13-16, 2006 3
Reiner Hartenstein, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany http://hartenstein.de
Reiner Hartenstein (keynote address): "From Organic Computing to Reconfigurable Computing"; The 8th Workshop on Parallel Systems and Algorithms (PASA 2006), co-located with the 19th Int'l Conf. on Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS 2006) Frankfurt/Main, Germany, March 13-16, 2006 4
Reiner Hartenstein, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany http://hartenstein.de
Reiner Hartenstein (keynote address): "From Organic Computing to Reconfigurable Computing"; The 8th Workshop on Parallel Systems and Algorithms (PASA 2006), co-located with the 19th Int'l Conf. on Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS 2006) Frankfurt/Main, Germany, March 13-16, 2006 5
Reiner Hartenstein, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany http://hartenstein.de
Reiner Hartenstein (keynote address): "From Organic Computing to Reconfigurable Computing"; The 8th Workshop on Parallel Systems and Algorithms (PASA 2006), co-located with the 19th Int'l Conf. on Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS 2006) Frankfurt/Main, Germany, March 13-16, 2006 6
Reiner Hartenstein, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany http://hartenstein.de
Reiner Hartenstein (keynote address): "From Organic Computing to Reconfigurable Computing"; The 8th Workshop on Parallel Systems and Algorithms (PASA 2006), co-located with the 19th Int'l Conf. on Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS 2006) Frankfurt/Main, Germany, March 13-16, 2006 7
Reiner Hartenstein, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany http://hartenstein.de
Reiner Hartenstein (keynote address): "From Organic Computing to Reconfigurable Computing"; The 8th Workshop on Parallel Systems and Algorithms (PASA 2006), co-located with the 19th Int'l Conf. on Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS 2006) Frankfurt/Main, Germany, March 13-16, 2006 8
Reiner Hartenstein, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany http://hartenstein.de
If I use the term "software", a variety of images might appear in the engineering audience's mind.
Still we have "hardware" engineers and "software" engineers that go to different schools, attend different conferences, avoid each other's cocktail parties, and almost never play on the same volleyball teams at the company picnic. System designers begin to plan their creations around the skill sets and development processes of hardware engineers and software engineers. The two become oil and water.
The line between "hardware" and "software" is rapidly blurring and even becoming irrelevant from a system design perspective. As this happens, the traditional roles and skillsets of hardware and software engineers are being challenged, and a new generation of designers is emerging as a result.
the obfuscation caused by the pervasiveness of softness.
Reiner Hartenstein (keynote address): "From Organic Computing to Reconfigurable Computing"; The 8th Workshop on Parallel Systems and Algorithms (PASA 2006), co-located with the 19th Int'l Conf. on Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS 2006) Frankfurt/Main, Germany, March 13-16, 2006 9
Reiner Hartenstein, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany http://hartenstein.de
Reiner Hartenstein (keynote address): "From Organic Computing to Reconfigurable Computing"; The 8th Workshop on Parallel Systems and Algorithms (PASA 2006), co-located with the 19th Int'l Conf. on Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS 2006) Frankfurt/Main, Germany, March 13-16, 2006 10
Reiner Hartenstein, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany http://hartenstein.de
with hardware description languages, Hardware engineers had to adopt the methodologies and techniques of software engineers - Increased softness has an impact on even our products themselves
The required skills for your respective jobs are converging (against the grain in an age of increased specialization) and you'll soon be working with (and competing against) a new generation of embedded engineers that are similarly skilled in both disciplines.
Reducing cost without loss of performance and flexibility.
It may be configured like a general flexible micro-processor executing conventional C/C++ code, and as a highly specific programmability of FPGAs distinguishes to ASICs.
An FPGA can perform a specific algorithm at very high speed. Compared to ASICs, prototyping time is on the order of hours rather than months, with a cost less than a tenth of that for an ASIC.
Using a high-level language, the FPGA can be programmed for a wide variety of algorithms without any deep knowledge of the underlying architecture.
Reiner Hartenstein (keynote address): "From Organic Computing to Reconfigurable Computing"; The 8th Workshop on Parallel Systems and Algorithms (PASA 2006), co-located with the 19th Int'l Conf. on Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS 2006) Frankfurt/Main, Germany, March 13-16, 2006 11
Reiner Hartenstein, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany http://hartenstein.de
The personal supercomputer is near, not only for the desktop, but also for a new road map to large scale supercomputing of up to now unthinkable highest performance dimensions.
IEEE-CS should accept this fascinating challenge, by spearheading the paradigm shift.
IEEE-CS is needed as a translator to explain the impact to managers and to a wide public.
“What did you say again that your company does?” My father posed the question, “Gate arrays,” I replied, “They’re chips used to…”
“Oh yes, that’s right, Gatorade.” ….. “I used to give that to my marching band members so they wouldn’t get dehydrated on hot days. Don’t remember it coming in chip form …..”
Explain to your grandmother what it means if you’re one of the world’s leading experts on optical proximity correction (OPC) for nanometer-scale semiconductor lithography?
Could you perhaps relate it to some difficulty she has with needlepoint and her cataracts?
Even those with a scientific or technical background often won’t understand precisely what we do. A PhD in molecular biology won’t help to understand VHDL and Verilog synthesis for FPGAs.
Trying to relate DNA sequences to LUT truth tables might offer a starting point, but somebody has to be able to bridge the technology and terminology gap, even to initiate that analogy.
Try explaining FPGAs with the consumer electronics approach. “People tend to relate when you tell them what your part goes into. Today, finally, ‘chip’ seems universally understood. I never get people asking about potato chips anymore.”
Abstract. Google’s yaw-dropping hit rates illustrate the pervasiveness of Reconfigurable Computing (RC), mainstream in embedded systems already for years, and now being adopted by supercomputing (Cray, sgi, etc.). From FPGA usage as accelerators, speed-up factors by up to two orders of magnitude are reported, as well as floor space requirements and electricity invoice amounts reduced by one order of magnitude. About 3 orders of magnitude and more is obtained by using coarse-grained reconfigurable datapath arrays (rDPAs) available from a number of start-ups.This is astonishing, since FPGAs and rDPAs have a substantially lower clock speed than microprocessors. Algorithmic cleverness is the secret of success, based on software to configware migration mechanisms, striving away from memory-cycle-hungry instruction-stream-based computing paradigms. The main benefit of RC platforms - having replaced the use of hardwired accelerators - is their flexibility by non-procedural programmability. This also contributes to those concepts of Organic Computing, which rely on processes of evolution, self-organization, adaptation and fault tolerance. The main hurdles on the way to heart-stopping new horizons of cheap highest performance are CS-related educational deficits causing the configware / software chasm and a methodology fragmentation between the different cultures of application domains. Current CS curricula do not sufficiently meet their transdisciplinary responsibility. The talk gives a survey on fundamental issues in RC and on new directions in CS-related curricula, focused on a dual paradigm organic computing approach.
Reiner Hartenstein (keynote address): "From Organic Computing to Reconfigurable Computing"; The 8th Workshop on Parallel Systems and Algorithms (PASA 2006), co-located with the 19th Int'l Conf. on Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS 2006) Frankfurt/Main, Germany, March 13-16, 2006 12
Reiner Hartenstein, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany http://hartenstein.de
IEEE Computer Society should advocate to introduce a dual paradigm approach – away from the monopoly of the vN mind set IEEE Computer Society should advocate a common model useful for the wide variety of application domains
IEEE Computer Society should advocate to introduce a dual paradigm transdisciplinary education by using Configware Engineering as the counterpart of Software Engineering by new curricula in CS and CE for providing an integrating dual paradigm mind set supporting a unification in dealing with problems, which are shared across many different application domains - to cure severe qualification deficiencies of our graduates.
