2015 Conference on FPGA Reconfiguration for General-Purpose Computing (FPGA4GPC) (FPGA4GPC))

The conference focusses on novel work in the field of reconfigurable systems optimized for the use in general-purpose computing. Reconfigurable Systems are common in High Performance Computing today. Software Development Kits enable engineers to accelerate their software through reconfigurable hardware. General-purpose computing can also profit from reconfigurable systems, for example by accelerating image processing or cryptographic applications, but the requirements are very different in contrast to HPC. For RS in general-purpose computing a good operating system support is essential and the flexibility of the system is of greater importance than in HPC. Systems in HPC are optimized for a single problem, while general-purpose computing requires the computation of a lot of different problems, sometimes even in parallel.