Alessandro Cilardo's blog

I had the honour of participating in a roundtable on “Security and Data Flows in the European Union”, where I gave a talk on the key role of home-grown computing technologies as a strategic national asset. The event was organized… Continue Reading →

The final review meeting of the MANGO project has been successfully held on May 23rd in the nice village of Le Lieu, Switzerland, in the EATON’s facility hosting the prototype. The MANGO monster was presented live to the EU project officer… Continue Reading →

RECIPE: REliable power and time-ConstraInts-aware Predictive management of heterogeneous Exascale systems is a new European Project targeted at HPC, that includes my group’s contribution and, indeed, directly builds on the outcome of MANGO. RECIPE aims at developing a runtime resource… Continue Reading →

As soon as we finilize the Non-Disclosure Agreements requested by Intel, we’ll be ready for a bunch of exciting activities involving new ideas for the tightly integrated CPU+FPGA platforms. Stay tuned!

.. and the sea in the distance. Lucky view from the office. (Just wanted to share it.)

Last October I got the Intel Hardware Accelerator Research Program (HARP) grant. Intel invited the recipients to San Jose, CA, for presenting their new multi-chip package (MCP) technology and early access to platforms and tools provided through HARP. According to… Continue Reading →

What legacy from EU projects? I’m part of this panel –second from the left here– in the Power-Efficient GPU and heterogeneous Multi-/Many-core Computing (PEGPUM) workshop, during the European Network on High Performance and Embedded Architecture and Compilation (HiPEAC) conference in… Continue Reading →

not a fan of bibliometrics, but anyway.. Just got this nice certificate from Elsevier

Just given a short presentation on “Harnessing the FPGA potential through GPU-like programming” in Brussels, European Commission Auditorium, during the H2020 Info Day on ICT 5 Customised and low energy computing. The event page and my presentation on the European… Continue Reading →

The nu+ web site is online. Edit: the nu+ design has now become the Naples Processing Unit (NaplesPU)!

First nu+ system successfully ported to proDesign proFPGA quad motherboard equipped with Xilinx Virtex7-2000T. Now, nu+ has a complete memory system and fully supports proFPGA Virtex7-2000T 4GB DDR3. LEDs are blinking!

This paper, authored by Edo Fusella and me, got published! This completes our series of works on application-driven design of on-chip optical interconnect architectures. (Note: these works, of course, have nothing to do with physics or device design, but rather… Continue Reading →

I’m part of the DATE 2017 Technical Program Committee (Topic D10 Reconfigurable Computing). Today we met in Montpellier for the TPC meeting, where we discussed about submissions and reviews, and took the final decisions about the accepted full papers and… Continue Reading →

On October 27th and 28th we’ve been discussing about the developments of MANGO in the nice city of Lausanne at EPFL. Among other things, I’ve reported about the integration of a Scratchpad Memory in nu+, the LLVM compiler backend, and… Continue Reading →

MANGO and nu+ have been part of our educational booth at Futuro Remoto, a large Science Festival taking place in Naples, this year reaching its 30th edition (a couple of links for the event in English and Italian). The festival… Continue Reading →

With three papers in the main conference, two presentations in the hosted Friday workshops, and one chaired session, this is my 13th year at the Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) conference. Cheers!

I just gave an invited talk on “Reconfigurability in HPC: opportunities and challenges” at the HiPEAC Computing Systems Week (CSW) in Milan, during a session on Challenges and Opportunities in Next-Generation HPC Systems for Real-Time Applications, gathering together experiences from… Continue Reading →

Altera Innovate Europe contest won! I designed and supervised the development of an FPGA-based accelerator for Homomorphic Encryption. Because of its potential implications on emerging FPGA-accelerated server scenarios (and maybe the gripping presentation delivered with the hardware design), the accelerator… Continue Reading →

On-chip interconnects provide a vital facility for highly parallel MultiProcessor Systems-on-Chip, particularly in data-intensive applications. This survey –authored by me and Edoardo Fusella– gives an in-depth overview of application-driven design automation solutions for on-chip interconnects, particularly  hierarchical buses, crossbars, and… Continue Reading →

One key insight behind my activities in the MANGO H2020 project is accelerator architecture exploration. Among other developments, one central activity that I planned and I’m now leading is the development of a customizable manycore system based on a GPU-like… Continue Reading →

… that means, older. Yes, unfortunately, I am.

It’s not a clothing brand, but a new H2020 project, selected within the FETHPC programme as one of the large-scale actions exploring new architectures for tomorrow’s European HPC! I was part of the MANGO proposal core team, and this success… Continue Reading →

Most of the cover images appearing on this blog are drawn by (or related to) Japanese animation master Hayao Miyazaki. I’ll put them here just to borrow a bit of his inspiring, timeless magic and poetry.