About OpenFPGA
OpenFPGA Inc. is a non-profit 501c(3) corporation working to foster continued progress in systems employing reconfigurable computing technology. Through the development of open industry standards, promotion of best practices, and support of cross-organizational collaboration, OpenFPGA enables the rapid adoption of advances in reconfigurable computing industrywide.
OpenFPGA is supported through individual memberships and organizational sponsorships.
Contact Us:
OpenFPGA Inc.
300 College Park Avenue
Dayton, OH 45469-0187
Phone: 937/229-5506
Fax: 937/229-1555
OpenFPGA greatly appreciates the operational and host support provided by the University of Dayton.
OpenFPGA name and logo are registered trademarks of OpenFPGA Inc. 2007-2008.
OpenFPGA Mission and Goals
The mission of OpenFPGA.org is to promote the use of Field Programmable Gate Arrays in high level and enterprise applications by collaboratively defining, developing and sharing critical information, technologies and best practices.
This mission is realized through the pursuit of the following objectives:
INNOVATION AND EVALUATION
- To share tools and best practices for developing, integrating and evaluating correctness and performance of FPGA-based programs.
STANDARDIZATION
- To define develop, and promote the use of open standards for communication between application programs and FPGA technologies.
EDUCATION
- To gather and prepare materials required to help educate future adopters of FPGA technology, ranging from students to industry professionals.
PROMOTION
- To promote the adoption of FPGA technologies in high-performance and enterprise computing by gathering, documenting and sharing cases where FPGA technologies have been successfully deployed.
COMMUNICATION AND COLLABORATION
- To provide a communication venue for FPGA technologists to share insight and locate collaborators for future projects.
PARTICIPATION
- To maintain broad participation with involvement of international commercial, government and academic organizations developing FPGA hardware, systems, tools and applications.
OpenFPGA Founding Steering Group Members
Incorporating Board of Directors
Malachy Devlin
Dr. Devlin joined Nallatech in 1996, as CTO. He is recognised worldwide, as an industry expert on FPGA computing technologies. Dr Devlin obtained his PhD in Signal Processing from Strathclyde University and joined Nallatech in 1996. He is a software specialist with several years experience in various companies including the National Engineering Laboratory, Telia in Sweden and Hughes Microelectronics (now part of Raytheon). He was part of the team who developed Nallatech's award- winning DIME™ modular technology based on FPGAs. Dr Devlin works closely with key blue-chip companies and strategic partners in the development of Nallatech’s technology and product roadmaps. His specializations include FPGAs, DSP Algorithms, High Performance Computing, High Performance Embedded Computing, Embedded Software, Embedded Software Development and Distributed Computing Systems.
Jon Huppenthal
Jon Huppenthal joined Seymour Cray as a co-founder of SRC Computers in 1996. Later that year, Mr. Huppenthal became the chief hardware technologist and vice president of hardware development for the organization, setting the strategic direction and leading the hardware design and integration efforts for the company. In 2004 Mr. Huppenthal was appointed president and CEO of SRC. Prior to joining SRC, Mr. Huppenthal spent seven years with Cray Computer Corporation as chief engineer and manager of electrical design. In addition, he has held similar positions with Apple Computer Corporation, TRW and Northrop Defense Systems. Mr. Huppenthal's patent portfolio includes 16 patents ranging from high-speed wafer testing to optical and electrical interconnects and also includes the invention of SRC's MAP reconfigurable processor. Mr. Huppenthal has a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Purdue University.
Kevin Roy
Mr. Kevin Roy (University of Manchester) is head of the Computational Science and Engineering group at the University of Manchester; the group works with large HPC systems and applications ands aims to improve performance and functionality in order to better enable research, it is also responsible for in-depth research support for the national HPC service CSAR including optimization and parallelization of a variety of applications across the academic spectrum. He has worked with HPC systems since 1998 on the national service. He received an MSc in Numerical Analysis and Computing in 1998 and a BSc (Hons) in Computer Science and Mathematics in 1997, both from the University of Manchester.
Aussie Schnore
Aussie Schnore’s 18 year career in semiconductors, power electronics, embedded systems and advanced computing includes technology strategy development, project management, technical leadership, architecting designs and solutions impacting most of the GE businesses and Lockheed Martin.
Currently a project leader for Reconfigurable and Non-conventional Computing within GE Global Research’s Advanced Computing Laboratory Aussie is responsible for development, planning and execution of technology development programs with several GE businesses. In this position he has lead/managed efforts for GE Healthcare, GE Aviation and others. Results of this work have been used to guide decisions for GE Commercial Finance, GE Security and as Congressional Testimony in front the House Committee on Science presented by Ray Orbach, Director of the DOE Office of Science. Aussie is also a principle GE investigator on several efforts within Lockheed Martin and is one of the founders of the Lockheed Martin Non-Conventional Computing Technology Focus Group.
A 1996 Graduate of Union College, he holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Electrical Engineering. Aussie is winner of the 1995 GE Global Research, Whitney Technical Achievers Award, the 2003 ACT Cardboard Car Race Long Distance Award and numerous other GE Corporate Awards. He holds 9 patents in a variety of areas and is a member of the ACM.
Eric Stahlberg
Eric Stahlberg is one of the organizing founders of the OpenFPGA organization, an international effort to advance the use of reconfigurable computing in high-performance computing applications. Throughout his career, he has worked in several leading-edge efforts to broaden the use of new parallel technologies including efforts with pre-standard message passing on massively parallel computers, contributing to efforts developing the OpenMP standard, and now working to expand the use of FPGA technology. Eric graduated with his doctorate in computational chemistry from the Ohio State University and has grown his experience in exploiting leading-edge computing technologies working for organizations including Argonne National Laboratory, Cray Research Inc., Oxford Molecular Group, Vital Images, Inc., Chemical Abstracts Service and presently with the Ohio Supercomputer Center.
Thomas Steinke
Dr. Thomas Steinke is leader of the “Alignment and threading on massively parallel computers” group at the Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum für Informationstechnik Berlin (ZIB) since August 2001, working on in-silico methods for protein structure prediction. From 1992 until 2001, he was consultant for supercomputer applications in the field of computational chemistry at ZIB. In that time he served as member of the UniChem Advisory Board with Cray Research from 1993 until 1995, and later of the Quantum Chemistry Steering Group with Oxford Molecular Group until September 2000. He received his Diploma in Chemistry in 1985 from the University of Leipzig and his Dr. rer. nat. in 1990 from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Karen Tomko
Dr. Tomko started working with custom computing systems in the mid 80s with image processing hardware accelerators at both ERIM and Synthetic Visions Systems. Since then she has gained expertise in parallel computing and FGPA based custom accelerators. Her experience with parallel scientific applications ranges from crashworthiness simulations to wireless communications simulations in collaboration with industrial and government laboratory computational groups. In addition, she has worked with industrial partners on projects in reconfigurable HPC. As a member of the Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science faculty at the University of Cincinnati, Dr. Tomko teaches courses in high performance computing, compiling and operating systems.
Keith Underwood
Keith Underwood joined Sandia National Laboratories as a Senior Member of the Technical Staff in 2002. He received the BS and PhD degrees in Computer Engineering from Clemson University, where he began his research in FPGA based reconfigurable computing as part of a project with NASA. His current reconfigurable computing research efforts focus on the role of reconfigurable computing in HPC systems, with a particular emphasis on double precision floating-point. His research interests also include network architectures and network interface architectures for high performance computing.
Kevin Wohlever – Director of OSC Springfield Operations
Kevin has been involved in High Performance Computing or Supercomputing for over 20 years. He was around at founding of the Ohio Supercomputer Center in 1987 and except for a few years when he left to help establish supercomputer centers for the EPA and Dow chemical as the technical lead, has been involved in OSC ever since.
Kevin’s career has overlapped a large part of the supercomputing move from expensive, proprietary systems only available to government agencies, to relatively inexpensive, with open operating system environments that are available to a wide range of users. Along the way, Kevin has worked for: The National Security Agency, NASA, the US EPA, Dow Chemical, Nationwide Insurance, Cray Research, and of course, OSC. During that time he has moved from a system administrator up through the ranks as a project leader to his current position as the director of the OSC operations in Springfield.
In his spare time, Kevin has run a soccer league in the Columbus area, is an Assistant Scout Master for the Boy Scouts, is a FIFA certified soccer referee and is active in youth sports in Worthington, Ohio, his current home. Kevin is married to Barbara, and they have two children, the oldest is at The Ohio State University and the youngest is a junior at Worthington Kilbourne High School.
A native of Lorain, Ohio, Kevin is a graduate of Bowling Green State University.