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From: "Dr. Alan D. George" <george@...> 
Subject: [Openfpga] Announcement of CHREC 
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NSF Center for High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing (CHREC) 

We are pleased to announce the official award and formation of a new 
national research center and consortium, the NSF Center for High-Performance 

Reconfigurable Computing (CHREC, pronounced "shreck"), under the auspices of 
the Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers (I/UCRC) program of the 
National Science Foundation.  Having successfully completed a two-year 
development, review, and selection process at NSF, CHREC will become 
operational in January 2007. 

High-performance and reconfigurable computing, the focus of CHREC, hold 
tremendous promise in addressing the needs of a broad range of applications, 
in areas such as signal and image processing, cryptology, communications 
processing, data and text mining, optimization, bioinformatics, and complex 
system simulations, for a variety of platform types, from leading-edge 
machines on earth to mission-critical machines in space. Advantages from a 
reconfigurable approach can be realized in terms of performance, power, 
size, cooling, cost, versatility, scalability, and dependability to name a 
few, important facets where conventional computing infrastructure alone is 
proving unable to meet the needs of an increasing number of critical 
applications.   

The lead institution for CHREC is the University of Florida, with partner 
institution at the George Washington University, and pending partner 
institutions at Brigham Young University and Virginia Tech.  Government and 
industry research partners are of vital importance for CHREC, where founding 
members include NSA, NASA, Honeywell, AFRL, Smiths Aerospace, Rockwell 
Collins, IBM Research, ORNL, Sandia, ONR, ARSC, and SGI.   

More information on CHREC is available at www.chrec.ufl.edu 
<http://www.chrec.ufl.edu/> . 

Best Regards, 

                                        Will 