Seminario Interdipartimentale di Algoritmica
 
 
 

Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione - DSI
via Salaria 113, piano terzo
Aula Seminari

Abstract:
A large interest in the concept of dynamic reconfigurability has been growing in the last decade. The main motivation being that reconfigurable computing gives the promise of delivering an order of magnitude performance improvement over traditional processors. In order to explore the reconfiguration potential a number of abstract models have been defined and used as a support for many parallel algorithms which exploit this potential in non trivial ways. Devices with reconfiguration capabilities are now commercially available and being used to demostrate the practical advantage of reconfigurable computing over general purpose processors. However, at the state of the art, theoretical models are far from the real world. In this talk we will overview both theoretical and practical research in reconfigurable computing we have been working on, giving a flavour of the main issues that need to be addressed in both areas.