1. 1/10/07Winter RAMP Retreat1 Research Accelerator for Multiple Processors Welcome to Winter Retreat, 2007! John Wawrzynek Computer Science Division UC Berkeley

2. 1/10/07Winter RAMP Retreat2 Brief Project History June 6, 2005Hallway discussions lead to RAMP vision June 13, 2005 The name “RAMP” coined; BEE2 [6] selected as RAMP- 1; a dozen people identified to develop RAMP January 2006 RAMP retreat and RDL tutorial at Berkeley March 2006 NSF infrastructure grant awarded June 2006 RAMP retreat at MIT; RAMP Red running with 8 processors on RAMP-1 boards December 2006 RAMP Blue running with 256 processors on 8 RAMP-1 boards January 2007 second biannual RAMP Retreat (Berkeley) June 2007 RAMP Red, White, and Blue running with 128 to 256 processors on 16 RAMP-1 boards; accurate clock cycle accounting and I/O model December 2007 RAMP-2 boards redesigned based on Virtex-5 and available for purchase; RAMP web site has downloadable designs

3. 1/10/07Winter RAMP Retreat3 Retreat Agenda 1. Snap-shot of project progress Lots of student/faculty talks/posters/demos 2. Brain-storming new directions, old problems Focused break-out discussions and reports 3. Reconfirm/refocus our vision Embedded PI meeting and report 4. Feedback and advice from our industrial (and other) friends Friday AM visitor feedback session We expect frank (both positive/negative) feedback We take your advice seriously We promise not to argue with you!

4. 1/10/07Winter RAMP Retreat4 Schedule (1)

5. 1/10/07Winter RAMP Retreat5 Schedule (2)

6. 1/10/07Winter RAMP Retreat6 Clark-Kerr Garden Room

7. 1/10/07Winter RAMP Retreat7 To/From Clairmont Hotel

8. 1/10/07Winter RAMP Retreat8 Thanks to Staff Brenda Farrell Local Arrangements, Registration, … With help and sage advice from Deirdre McAuliffe-Bauer Webpage support: Allen Hopkins Tech Support: Kevin Zimmerman, Brad Krebs, Brian Richards