NANDA24: Novel Architecture and Novel Design Automation

The third 2-day workshop on Novel Architecture and Novel Design Automation (NANDA) will take place at Imperial College on 9-10 September 2024, hosted by Imperial’s Centre for High-performance Embedded and Distributed Systems. The purpose of this workshop is to invite renowned experts in the two areas of novel computer architecture and novel design automation tools, to present their latest advances, and to provide a forum to spark new ideas.

Our aim is to make this event a really valuable landmark in the calendar for research in these areas, with a priority on bringing interesting people together for interesting discussions!

Participation is open to all. Attending with a poster will make the experience more valuable! You are also warmly encouraged to forward this invitation to students, colleagues and collaborators, in academia and in industry.

We hope you'll be able to join us in September in London!

Registration

Please register to attend the workshop here: https://estore.imperial.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/faculty-of-engineering/computing/nanda24

• Early Full Registration (on or before 1st September): GBP 350
• Full Registration: GBP 400
• Student Registration: GBP 200

Programme

Monday 9 September 2024

0850 Welcome – what is NANDA about? Wayne Luk (Imperial) slides video

0900  Saman Amarasinghe (MIT, USA): "Creating New Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) Made Easy"

0930  Maya Gokhale (LLNL, USA): “Purpose-built IP for High Performance Computing” slides video

1000  Albert Cohen (Google Paris, France): “K-Pop Compilation: No Kernel Left Behind” video

1030  break  

1100  Gianfranco Bilardi (University of Padua, Italy): “Scalability of Architectures under Fundamental Constraints” slides video

1130  Nic Lane (University of Cambridge, UK): “Federated Learning is the Future of AI” slides video

1200  Eiman Kanjo (Imperial and Nottingham Trent University, UK): “Tiny Models Deployment on Modern MCUs”

1230  lunch and posters

1400  Christos Kozyrakis (Stanford University, USA): “AI Systems Architecture”

1430  John Wawrzynek (UC Berkeley, USA): "Hardware Design for Machine Learning and Machine Learning for Hardware Design" slides

1500  Michaela Blott (AMD, Ireland): “Pervasive AI with Adaptive Computing”

1530  break and posters video

1630  Andrew Putnam (Microsoft, USA): “Think Different: The Unique Role of FPGAs in a GPU-Dominated World” slides video

1700  Gustavo Alonso (ETHZ, Switzerland): “Data Processing in Energy Efficient Data Centers” slides

1800  dinner

Tuesday 10 September 2024

0900  Tulika Mitra (NUS, Singapore): “Spatial Accelerators at the Edge” slides video

0930  Nabeel Shirazi (Intel, USA): "Grand Challenges for FPGAs in the Next Decade" slides

1000  Jason Anderson (University of Toronto, Canada): “Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Architectures (CGRAs): Role as Accelerators and Architecture/CAD Challenges”

1030  break  

1100  Christina Silvano (Poli di Milano)/Stefania Perri (U. Calabria), “Exploration of Digital In-memory Computing to Accelerate Deep Learning on the Edge” slides

1130  Pedro Trancoso (Chalmers University, Sweden): “NextGen Accelerators: Flexible, Scalable, Efficient – Together” slides video

1200  Noa Zilberman (University of Oxford, UK): “In-Network ML: Inference at the Speed of Data” slides video

1230  lunch

1400  Jose Cano (University of Glasgow, UK): “Accelerating AI at the Edge: the Power of Efficient Hardware-Software Co-Design” slides video

1430  Stelios Venieris (Samsung, Cambridge, UK): “Beyond Status-Quo NPUs: Hardware-Native Multi-Tenancy & Adaptive Inference” slides

1500  Suhaib Fahmy (KAUST, Saudi Arabia): “It’s all about the primitives! Designing for high performance on FPGAs” slides video

1530  End

Call for Posters

We would like to invite you to submit a poster for presentation at this workshop - simply to provide you with a concrete way to initiate conversations about your interests. Posters will be reviewed with a light-touch process, by a small committee of organisers and invited speakers.  Your poster can report on already-published work, work-in-progress, and speculative research ideas - on topics including, but not restricted to:

• Security, resilience and power efficiency
• ASIC and FPGA design toolchain, verification, test, synthesis
• Processor microarchitecture
• Instruction set design, specification, verification, test
• Memory system architecture, parallelism, coherency, disaggregation, PIM
• Datapath synthesis, approximate computing, precision optimisation
• Accelerator synthesis, offload, workload analysis and partitioning
• Performance instrumentation, simulation methodology, design optimisation
• Hardware/software co-design, static and dynamic analysis enabling architecture
• Domain-specific optimisation

For guidance on topics of interest, check out the talks at NANDA’23 via Cassyni site, (and the NANDA’23 website) or email (p.kelly@imperial.ac.uk) and ask.

How to submit your poster:

• Submissions may be made at any time up to 30 August 2024.
• We aim to notify acceptance of posters as quickly as possible, and early submissions are encouraged. If you submit your poster draft tomorrow it could be accepted within a few days!
• Please submit pdf posters for review via Easychair.
• If your poster submission is accepted, please bring your paper poster with you to the event.  You may, of course, bring a revised and improved version!

Poster design and formatting

• You will need to provide a short abstract when submitting your poster, which we will use in the online programme
• Posters should be no larger than A0 size, landscape or portrait
• Make sure the title, authors and affiliations are clearly shown at the top
• Text should be easily readable from 2m (six feet) away
• Your objective is to get the right people to engage with you in-person - you don’t have to tell the whole story - but you do need to hook the viewer within 60 seconds.  The right image is probably the key!

There will be no formal proceedings, although we plan a web-based record of the event, and posters can, optionally, be included there, after the workshop.

NANDA’24 does not currently have any industrial sponsors; if you would like to contribute, for example to enable more PhD students to participate, please get in touch.