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with Chris Tyler

12 February, 2019 at 07:30 PM

CANCELLED - Due to adverse weather.

Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have moved from being expensive, exotic prototyping tools to affordable mainstream devices for hardware customization and acceleration. This talk takes a general look at FPGAs, how to use them, the current technology landscape, the increasing use of FPGAs as cloud, leaf, and server accelerators, and related technology initiatives around standardization and cache coherence.

Location

George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre at Ryerson University

245 Church Street, Room 203 (second floor).

Schedule

  • 7:30 pm Meeting and presentation.
  • 9:00 pm After each meeting a group of GTALUGers move to the The Library/ The Imperial Pub (54 Dundas St East) for beer and more socializing.

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