About the Workshop

The Open-Source Hardware community has grown very quickly. The current wave of Open-Source Hardware development is largely driven by the RISC-V processor architecture which is now reaching a high level of maturity. However, the Open-Source Hardware community lags behind in terms of solutions for massively parallel compute architectures. There exist several open-source multi-core platforms but they are not massively parallel.

GPGPUs have emerged as the leading massively parallel architecture although CGRAs (Coarse Grained Reconfigurable Architectures) are attracting increasing attention as they have the potential for higher energy efficiency. Both architectures can provide massively parallel compute for critical problems such as AI, signal processing and large data analysis. There already exist some open source projects, such as the FlexGrip, Vortex, OpenCGRA, CGRA-ME, OpenEdgeCGRA, but they are all in their early stages.

This community has not been federated in the same way as the RISC-V community has. The goal of the OSSMPIC workshop is to gather the community of researchers working on open source GPUs and CGRAs, so that they achieve the same critical mass as the RISC-V community.

Call for Papers

We are soliciting short papers (4 pages, IEEE format, including references) which cover the following, or highly related, topics:

•    Hardware designs for open source GPUs or CGRAs
•    Compiler and software flows for Open Source GPUs or CGRAs
•    Benchmarking results for massively parallel systems
•    Other highly parallel open source architectures (eFPGAs,…)
•    System components for open-source parallel systems (caches, memory controllers, NoCs, etc.)
•    Business models / strategies around open-source hardware development

Papers will be reviewed and the accepted papers will be either be allocated an oral talk or given as a poster presentation. The organizers will prepare on-line proceedings for the workshop participants who wish to share their paper. Authors retain the copyright to their work and may choose to later submit their work at other another venue. Authors can submit their papers at : https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ossmpic-2025

Full CFP available here.

Important Dates

Paper Submission : 24-jan-2025
Author Notification : 10-FEB-2025
Final Submission and Registration : 21-FEB-2025