US AHEAD bootcamp

Name: US AHEAD bootcamp
Start: 2025-06-09T02:30:00-04:00
End: 2025-06-13T12:30:00-04:00
Location: No location set

9 Jun 2025, 02:30 → 13 Jun 2025, 12:30 US/Eastern

98 Rochester St, Upton, NY 11973, United States

Description

This is a training tutorial centered around how to use High-Level Synthesis (HLS) tools to program FPGAs. The US ATLAS HLS Education and Development (AHEAD) Bootcamp will be held at BNL and will be targeted toward senior US ATLAS graduate students and all levels of US ATLAS postdocs.

The tutorial will include a brief introduction to digital design, how to make best use of HLS tools and understand what HLS code is doing. Participants will do on-hands on exercises to solidify the new concepts.

The event will take place in Building 510, see a map here:

https://www.bnl.gov/maps/510map.php

The workshop is co-organized by

Jahred Adelman (NIU)
Haider Abidi (BNL)
Antonio Boveia (OSU)
Marcos Oliveira (BNL)
Akshay Malige (BNL)
Alexander Paramonov (ANL)

Contact

sabidi@cern.ch

jahreda@gmail.com

us-ahead-2025-organizers@googlegroups.com

Registration

Application Form

Monday 9 June
- 08:50 → 10:50
  Welcome: Hi! Introduction
  - 09:00
    
    Intro to the introduction 5m
    
    Speaker: Haider Abidi (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))
    
    USAhead workshop 2024 - Welcome to BNL (1).pdf
  - 09:05
    
    Why are we here? And some icebreakers! 25m
    
    Speaker: Jahred Adelman (Northern Illinois University)
    
    Intro
  - 09:30
    
    How to connect to a computer - VNC guide 30m
    
    Speaker: Akshay Malige (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))
    
    VNC instructions
  - 10:00
    
    We struggle with computer connections 30m
- 10:30 → 11:00
  
  Coffee Break - Elixir of Life
- 11:00 → 12:30
  Digital Design
  - 11:00
    
    Intro to digital design 1h 30m
    
    Speaker: Alexander Paramonov (Argonne National Laboratory (US))
    
    Intro to digital circuits and FPGAs
- 12:30 → 13:30
  
  Lunch 1h
  
  Order before 10am from https://bnlrollinghost.hrpos.heartland.us/order
- 13:30 → 14:30
  Digital Design
  - 13:30
    
    Vivado Live Demo 1h
    
    Speaker: Alexander Paramonov (Argonne National Laboratory (US))
- 14:30 → 15:00
  
  Coffee Break - Elixir of Life
- 15:00 → 16:30
  FPGA
  - 15:00
    
    Crash course on everything FPGAs 1h 30m
    
    Speaker: Jahred Adelman (Northern Illinois University)
    
    FPGA Intro
- 16:30 → 17:00
  
  Deep Breath & Break 30m
- 17:00 → 19:00
  
  Dinner++ 2h
Tuesday 10 June
- 09:30 → 10:00
  Show & Tell
  - 09:30
    
    An ATLAS project 15m
    
    Speaker: Marcos Vinicius Silva Oliveira (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))
    
    20250610 - ATLAS LATOME HLS.pdf
    
    Silva Oliveira - Public defense Low-Latency High-Bandwidth Circuit and System Design for Trigger Systems in High Energy Physics.pdf
  - 09:45
    
    EF tracking 12m
    
    Speaker: Haider Abidi (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))
    
    EF tracking
- 10:00 → 10:30
  
  Coffee Break - Elixir of Life
- 10:30 → 12:30
  Show & Tell
  - 10:30
    
    How to load Vitis 45m
    
    Loading Vadd example and how to run it, and find reports
    
    Speaker: Akshay Malige (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))
    
    AHEAD_2025 tutorial
  - 11:15
    
    We practice running Vitis 45m
    
    and pull our hairs out as a team
- 12:30 → 13:30
  
  Lunch 1h
  
  Order before 10am from https://bnlrollinghost.hrpos.heartland.us/order
- 13:30 → 15:00
  Serious Lectures
  - 13:30
    
    Intro to HLS and live demos 1h 30m
    
    Speaker: Marcos Vinicius Silva Oliveira (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))
    
    Starting with HLS
    
    Starting with HLS
- 15:00 → 15:30
  
  Coffee Break - Elixir of Life
- 15:30 → 17:00
  Lets Exercise
  - 15:30
    
    Time to test your skills 1h 30m
    
    Go through the functions @ https://github.com/US-AHEAD/2025/tree/main/simple_functions
    Make vitis projects, find timing and resource usage for each one of them
    
    Develop plots that show threads for latency, resources when you change
    - Change N
    - Change data types, int/float/longs/char/….boolean
    - ….
- 17:00 → 17:30
  
  Break and deep breaths 30m
- 17:30 → 19:30
  
  Dinner++ 2h
Wednesday 11 June
- 09:00 → 10:30
  Serious Lectures
  - 09:00
    
    Pragmas 1h 30m
    
    Why we love and hate them
    
    Speaker: Jahred Adelman (Northern Illinois University)
    
    Link to slides on git
- 10:30 → 11:00
  
  Coffee Break - Elixir of Life
- 11:00 → 12:30
  Lets Exercise
  - 11:00
    
    Time to test your skills - Part 2 1h 30m
    
    Go through the functions @ https://github.com/US-AHEAD/2025/tree/main/simple_functions
    
    Make vitis projects, find timing and resource usage for each one of them, but add pragmas this time to see what changes from your results from before
- 12:30 → 13:30
  
  Lunch 1h
  
  Order before 10am frohttps://bnlrollinghost.hrpos.heartland.us/order
- 13:30 → 14:30
  Projects - Gahhhhh!
  - 13:30
    
    Walkthrough of project optimization 30m
    
    Speaker: Marcos Vinicius Silva Oliveira (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))
  - 14:00
    
    Walkthrough of potential projects 20m
    
    Speaker: Haider Abidi (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))
- 14:30 → 15:00
  Lets Exercise
  - 14:30
    
    Work on projects 30m
- 15:00 → 15:30
  
  Coffee Break - Elixir of Life
- 15:30 → 16:30
  Lets Exercise
  - 15:30
    
    Project time 1h
    
    Final project discussion
    
    Final projects, URL on git
    
    USAHEAD_ HLS example projects.pdf
- 16:30 → 17:00
  
  Deep Breaths 30m
- 19:30 → 21:30
  
  Dinner++ 2h
  
  We go to Curry Club https://curryclubatsaghar.com/
Thursday 12 June
- 09:00 → 12:30
  Lets Exercise
  - 09:00
    
    Working time for projects 3h 30m
- 12:30 → 13:30
  
  Lunch 1h
  
  Order before 10am from https://bnlrollinghost.hrpos.heartland.us/order
- 13:30 → 15:00
  
  Lab Tours 1h 30m
- 15:00 → 17:00
  Lets Exercise
  - 15:00
    
    Working time for projects and presentation 2h
    
    with coffee breaks in the middle
- 17:00 → 19:00
  
  Dinner++ 2h
Friday 13 June
- 08:50 → 12:00
  Final Presentations
  - 09:00
    
    Punit+Sahibjeet 10m
    
    Speakers: Punit Sharma (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)), Dr Sahibjeet Singh (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))
    
    Connecting two Kernels.pdf
  - 09:10
    
    Julianne+Walker 10m
    
    Speakers: Julianne Starzee, Walker William Sundquist (University of Massachusetts (US))
    
    Edge_Detection.pdf
  - 09:20
    
    Break for Caffeine and the potty 15m
  - 09:35
    
    Daniela+Jochen 10m
    
    Speakers: Daniela Koeck (University of Oregon), Jochen Jens Heinrich (University of Oregon (US))
    
    TAUS_AHEAD.pdf
  - 09:45
    
    Abdullah+Maya 10m
    
    Speakers: Abdullah Sayed (Brandeis University (US)), Maya Nicole Mancini (Brandeis University (US))
  - 09:55
    
    Lubos + Jae Jin 10m
    
    Speakers: Jae Jin Hong (Indiana University (US)), Lubos Vozdecky (University of Oklahoma)
    
    Array Sorting.pdf
  - 10:05
    
    Break for caffeine + potty + sugar 15m
  - 10:20
    
    Hayden + Roxani 10m
    
    Speakers: Hayden Michael Shaddix (Northern Illinois University (US)), Roxani Lazaridou (University of California Irvine (US))
    
    kernel_profiling_presentation.pdf
  - 10:30
    
    Osip+Alex 10m
    
    Speakers: Alex Gekow (Ohio State University (US)), Joseph Philip Surdutovich (Ohio State University (US))
    
    FPGA MET.pdf
  - 10:40
    
    Break for caffine + potty + sugar + leg-stretching 15m
  - 10:55
    
    Anthony+Natalie 10m
    
    Speakers: Anthony Maurel Carroll (University of Oregon (US)), Natalie Ellen Gray (University of Texas at Austin (US))
    
    HAMSTER.pdf
  - 11:05
    
    Jammel 10m
    
    Speaker: Ashley Brooks (Indiana University)
- 12:00 → 12:30
  
  Lunch (quick?) and depart 30m
  
  http://okenosushi.com/
  
  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/149THK1HnYMa0k-adYM-fMKJDwoSzG4EFL1S-CIwFR5Q/edit?gid=0#gid=0