The C3SR faculty members, Professors Deming Chen and Wen-mei Hwu havee recently been awarded by Xilinx to build a Xilinx Center of Excellence for Adaptive Computing (XACC), which is part of a university research program recently announced by Xilinx.
This award comes with a significant donation from Xilinx with a large number of high-end adaptive compute acceleration platforms to build a heterogenous computing cluster and gift grants to support several multi-year research projects in the center.
This award is a great recognition of the C3SR center faculty’s thought leadership in the field of high-performance computing, which “began four years ago to design compiler/design-automation flow related to field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and machine-learning workloads” at the C3SR center. Since then, the C3SR center has taken home won many top achievements, including the ICCAD’18 Best Paper Award and the Championship Awards for the 2019 DAC System Design Contest. It was these achievements that caught the attention of Xilinx executive to set up the XACC at Illinois.
Congratulations, Deming and Wen-mei!
