Agenda

Room W176c, McCormick Place, Chicago

9:00 am
Opening Remarks
Session 1: Emerging Architectures
9:05 am
Porting Codes to the NextSilicon Maverick-2 Dataflow Architecture: Early Experience, Best Practice and Performance
Chekuri Choudary, Steffen Christgau, Daniel Gecasek, Ronaldo Rodrigues Pela, Kevin Olson, Mathias Pütz, Florian Schintke, Lewin Stein, and Thomas Steinke
9:15 am
Wafer Scale Acceleration of Unstructured Finite Element Methods
Emma Urquhart
9:30 am
To SIMD Or Not To SIMD: Comparing RVV vs. CGRA SoCs For Non-Linear Functions In AI
Sameer Deshmukh, Naoya Mizuki, and Takumi Honda
9:45 am
A Highly Optimized Double-Word Arithmetic Implementation using Versal DSPs
David Volz, Torben Kalkhof, Tim Noack, and Andreas Koch
10:00 am
Morning Break
Session 2: AI/ML
10:30 am
Energy-Efficient Streaming FPGA Accelerator for DeepSeek Sparse Attention Decode
Jiakang Fan, Rakshith Jayanth, and Viktor Prasanna
10:45 am
SOO, MOO, and FOO: Transformer-Layer Execution on Ryzen AI NPUs
Curt John Bansil, Kaustubh Manohar Mhatre, Aviral Shrivastava, and Aman Arora
11:00 am
Rapid Dataflow Buffer Sizing for DNNs via Parallel RTL Control-Flow Simulation for FINN
Linus Jungemann, Bjarne Wintermann, Heinrich Riebler, Felix Jentzsch, Christoph Berganski, and Christian Plessl
Session 3: Networking
11:15 am
High Speed Network Processing for Scientific Computing in the Open Cloud Testbed
Miriam Leeser, Michael Zink, Suranga Handagala, Carlos Ruben Dell’Aquila, Verena Martinez Outschoorn, and Rafael Coelho Lopes de Sa
11:30 am
Profiling and Optimization Opportunities for SmartNIC-Assisted MoE Inference
Shining Yang and Martin Herbordt
Session 4: Platforms
11:45 am
GarageWork: A Shared Testbench Abstraction for Software Simulation and FPGA Testing
Kazutomo Yoshii
11:55 am
BASE: A Reusable Streaming Preprocessing Accelerator for Heterogeneous FPGA Systems
Rye Stahle-Smith, Carter Antley, Jason Bakos, and Rasha Karakchi
Session 5: Programming Languages
12:10 pm
Machine Learning for a Gamma-Ray Telescope Using Stream-HLS
Jackie Wu, Ye Htet, Marion Sudvarg, Jeremy D. Buhler, and Roger D. Chamberlain
12:25 pm
Closing Remarks