Support for International Workshop on Applied Reconfigurable Computing in 2008

随着技术改进可能在未来十年内停止的建议，人们越来越强调提高现有计算体系结构的性能回报。一种可能的方法是开发可重新配置的计算系统，其中硬件被重新配置以更好地匹配应用程序的性能需求。这被称为可重构计算，2008年，英国将主办该领域的主要国际会议，即应用可重构计算国际研讨会（ARC2008）。鉴于英国在伦敦帝国理工学院，贝尔法斯特女王大学，爱丁堡大学，约克大学和曼彻斯特大学的广泛学术研究基础以及涉及处理器设计的各种公司，ARM, Picochip, Panansonic（前身为Elixent）， Icera半导体和ARC，该会议与英国高度相关。这一领域在英国有很强的基础，这表明这次会议是及时的。今年，会议在伦敦帝国理工学院举行，由克里斯托斯·布加尼斯担任总主席，罗杰·伍兹担任贝尔法斯特女王大学的项目联合主席。会议专门针对可重构硬件领域的研究人员，汇集了来自世界各地的研究人员。要求支持全体会议发言人、项目主席和一些秘书支持的旅行。

With the suggestion that technology improvements may come to a halt over the next decade, there is increased emphasis in improving the performance return of existing computing architectures. One possible such approach is to develop reconfigurable computing systems where the hardware is reconfigured to better match performance requirement of the application. this is known as reconfigurable computing and in 2008, the UK will play host to the major international conference in this area , namely the International Workshop on Applied Reconfigurable Computing (ARC2008). The conference is highly relevant to the UK given the wide base of UK academic research in Imperial College London, Queen's University Belfast, Edinburgh University, University of York and the University of Manchester and the diverse range of companies involved in processor design generally, ARM, Picochip, Panansonic (formerly Elixent), Icera semiconductor and ARC. The fact that there is a strong base in this area in the UK, suggest this conference is timely.This year, the conference is being hosted at Imperial College London by Christos Bouganis acting as the general chair and the program co-chair based at Queen's University Belfast, namely Roger Woods. The conference is targeted specifically at researchers in the reconfigurable hardware domain and brings together researchers from around the world. Support is requested for travel for the plenary speakers, program chair and for some secretarial support.