The innovation Program at SURF aims to investigate the recent advancements in new heterogeneous and unconventional architectures to demonstrate their impact on performance and energy efficiency of (large-scale) scientific applications. One of such promising architectures is reconfigurable hardware (e.g., FPGA, CGRA, etc.) which is a potential technology in the future of HPC ecosystem and data centers. We decide to investigate the impact and the role of this technology in the future of HPC ecosystem.
In order to achieve this goal, SURF initiated a collaboration with the Dutch Hardware Acceleration network, and together we received the 4TU.NIRICT grant to investigate this technology and create a strong FPGA and HWAcc community within the Netherlands from both academia and industry. Since then, we have organized a series of FPGA and HWAcc workshops known as FIRE: FPGA Innovation Research Exchange. In addition, we have provided a survey paper about recent FPGA research and activities in Dutch-affiliated universities and also in industry. The paper can be found via this link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.02404
SURF at Utrecht hosted the fourth edition of the series on December 6th, 2024. One of our keynote speaker was Henk Corporaal from TU/e who discussed recent architectural innovation, in particular for deep learning applications. Our second keynote speaker was Kentaro Sano from Riken supercomputer center in Japan where he represented challenges and lessons learned from deploying an experimental FPGA cluster as an extension to Fugaku supercomputer. In addition to talks from Dutch-affiliated universities such as UTwente and TU Delft, we also had some presentations from industry where companies such as AMD, Samsung, Axelera AI and Snap presented their recent work on their new architecture and processor design. You can find the slides of all the presentations at the workshop via this link: https://surfdrive.surf.nl/files/index.php/s/uBJv24RKodPzXmi
The fifth edition of FIRE FPGA event with a focus on data-driven acceleration using typed interface design will be held on June 27th, 2025 at SURF in Utrecht. If you would like to be informed about this event and also the upcoming FIRE FPGA events, you can register for our mailing list here: https://forms.gle/MgKKkrhxQMS4jyPF6
An overview our past events can be found via this link: https://communities.surf.nl/en/future-computing-and-networking/article/fire-fpga-innovation-research-exchange-third-edition
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