Reiner Hartenstein, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany

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7 October 2014

RC education 2006

The 1st International Workshop on Reconfigurable Computing Education

The Digital Divide TU Kaiserslautern

Karlsruhe, Germany, March 1, 2006

Reiner Hartenstein TU Kaiserslautern

Introduction I Why we need Reconfigurable Computing Education

The White House, Sept 2000: Bill Clinton condemns the Digital Divide in America: (access to the internet) World Economic Forum 2002: The Global Digital Divide,

disparity between the "haves" and "have nots“

The Digital Divide in Parallel Computing: Access to Configware (CW) Solutions 2

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The new paradigm

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Reconfigurable Computing: the new machine paradigm the 2nd RAM-based computing paradigm

Exploit spatial parallelism, and ..

instead of software? instead of spec. hardware?

… and fine-grained parallelism when useful

no instruction fetch at run time reconfigurable paradigm: von Neumann computing programming mode procedural structural programming source software configware 3

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