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About me

I was born in Maracay (Aragua State), Venezuela. I received my BSc degree at 1992 in Computer Science in the School of Computer Science, Faculty of Sciences at the Central University of Venezuela. Later, I joined the School of Computer Science at the Central University of Venezuela like a Lecturer Teacher. Since 1994, I also have been working like a Research Fellow in the Parallel and Distributed Computing Centre at that institution.

Then, In 1998, I got my Master degree in Computer Science (topic about Parallel and Distributed Systems) at the School of Computer Science, Central University of Venezuela. My degree work was oriented to Distributed Simulation on a Computers Cluster of a Theoretical Computer Architecture based on Parallel Recursion called PRM.

So far, my research interests have been the following areas: Parallel Computing, Computers Architecture Technologies, Systems Performance Evaluation, and Parallel and Distributed Simulation.

In 2001, I was like an invited researcher for 6 months at the Institute for Computing Systems Architecture, Division of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. Scotland, UK. In that time I was working with Dr Murray Cole about Algorithmic Skeleton for Parallel Programming.

Currently, I am a PhD student in Computer Science in the Institute of Computing Systems Architecture (ICSA) at The University of Edinburgh-Scotland, United Kingdom. Actually, Dr Murray Cole is my PhD supervisor now (link to his Homepage!). I am doing research on Cole's Skeleton Patterns for Parallel Programming on FPGAs. (An abstract about my research in the section of PhD Research Project).
By the way, I've got a Law degree as well and some years ago I was like an advanced student in Physics at the Central University of Venezuela.
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My PhD. Research Project

@SkeLCore: Algorithmic Skeletons for Reconfigurable Computing
Carlos Acosta-Leon
Dr Murray Cole (Supervisor)
Institute for Computing Systems Architecture
University of Edinburgh

Abstract:
The fixed control hardware, instruction set processor architecture of conventional microprocessors sacrifices absolute performance for generic programmability. In contrast reconfigurable technology allows the implementation of specialised high performance applications, but at the expense of programming complexity. We seek to address the challenge of providing programming models which can take advantage of the coupled work between microprocessor-based conventional systems and FPGA-based reconfigurable technology as appropriate.

This involves the design of new abstraction techniques. A common approach to general-purpose parallel computation is based on packaging complex operations as templates, patterns or skeletons, which encapsulate the necessary control and data flow. This allows software to be written in a way that is independent of particular architectures and hence portable. Our research is guided toward the use of algorithmic skeletons in the FPGA design process. These can be provided though sequential programming interfaces to parallel (and dynamically reconfigured) skeletons and used as a tool for exploring FPGA/microprocessor design spaces.

Keywords - Structured Parallelism, Algorithmic Skeletons, FPGA Technology, FPGA High-Level Programming, Reconfigurable Computing. (further more about my PhD Project)
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Recent Publications

"Carlos A. ACOSTA-LEON, "Codesign of a Parallel Recursion Machine using a Hardware Algorithm Approach: Parallel Programming on FPGA with Handel-C", Promotion work. School of Computer Science, Faculty of Sciences. Central University of Venezuela. May 30, 2004. Caracas, Venezuela.

Carlos ACOSTA and Rina Suros, "A Method for the Efficient Multiplication of Dense Matrix Using An Approach Parallel and Recursive Computing", Performance Evaluation Proceedings of the World Multiconference On Systems, Cybernetics and Informatics ISAS/SCI 2001, July 22-25, 2001. Volume V, pages 130-136. Orlando, Florida. USA.

"Carlos ACOSTA, Rina Suros and E. Montagne, "A Computational Model for Lists Processing of Linear Recursive Functions ", Proceedings of the XXVI Latin-American Conferences of Informatics, CLEI 2000, September 18, 2000. Technological Institute of Monterrey. Mexico.

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Attendant to Conferences, Seminars and Workshop

Informatics Jamboree 2006. Attendant for a talk and my poster presentation (held at the Peter Wilson Building, The King's Buildings, University of Edinburgh, Scotland-UK, 7-9 June 2006).

Workshop on Microelectronics EDA Design Tools and Flows, Microelectronics Support Centre (held at the Centre CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxfordshire-UK, 18 May 2006).

Workshop on System-on-Chip for FPGAs, Microelectronics Support Centre (held at the Centre CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxfordshire-UK, 9 May 2006).

Graduate Seminars Forum for ICSA Ph.D. students 2006: Talk for presenting my research (held at the Room 2511 of the James Clerk Maxwell Building at the King's Buildings campus, University of Edinburgh, Scotland-UK, 23 February 2006).

2nd Technical Symposium on Reconfigurable Computing with FPGAs (held at the University of Manchester-UK, 9-10 February 2006).

2nd UK EMBEDDED Forum (held at NEC in Birmingham-UK, October 19-20, 2005).

ACACES'2005, First International Summer School on Advanced Computer Architecture and Compilation for Embedded Systems (held in L'Aquila, Italy, 24-30 July, 2005).

Workshop on Grid Computing (held at the National eScience Centre in Edinburgh-UK, 15th July 2004).

Workshop on Constructive Methods in Parallel Programming (held at the University of Stirling-UK, 14th July 2004).

Technical Symposium on Reconfigurable Computing with FPGAs (held at the University of Manchester-UK, 21-22 February 2005).

9th International WorkShop on Compilers for Parallel Computers (held at The University of Edinburgh. Edinburgh, Scotland-UK. June 27- 29, 2001.

XXVI Latinoamerican Conferences of Informatics (LCI 2000) (held at the Tecnol�ico de Monterrey. M�ico. September 2000).

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Links to Interest Sites

The University of Edinburgh Webpage . Welcome to the Institute of Conputing Systems Architecture (ICSA) at the School of Informatics.

The Open SystemC Initiative (OSCI):, is an independent non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and advancing SystemC as an industry standard language for electronic system-level design, today announced that it has officially transferred the Language Reference Manual (LRM) for SystemC 2.1 to the IEEE for further standardization.

The Structured Parallelism Group at The University of Edinburgh: We research on high level structuring and abstraction mechanisms to developed parallel computing. Also, here we are our skeletons webpage maintained by Murray Cole.

Citeseer: is a big free database on internet where we can find a lot of research papers about diferent topics in computer science.

FPGA.Org: The purpose of this site is to share the lore of designing new processors and integrated systems-on-chips using FPGAs (field-programmable gate arrays).

Xilinx Inc.: With superior FPGA and CPLD products, Xilinx is the leader in the digital programmable logic device (PLD) market.

Celoxica: High performance Electronic System Level (ESL) design solutions for; C synthesis; behavioral synthesis for SystemC; and co design technologies for FPGA.

INRIA: The purpose of this web site is to gather and spread out information about ongoing work in the field of synchronous languages, Systems on Chip and Embedded Systems.

FPGA/VLSI/CAD Conferences: Another site gathering information about ongoing work in the field of FPGAs and Reconfigurable Computing.

University of Idaho: TMRCI maintains one of the most extensive databases on informaion pertaining to FPGAs or Field Programmable Gate Arrays.

WWW Computer Architecture Page at the University of Wisconsin: A lot of Information and Resources about Computer Architectures.

HiPEAC: European Network of Excellence on High-Performance Embedded Architecture and Compilation. Also, with informaion pertaining to Conferences about Embbeded Systems and Field Programmable Gate Arrays.

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My Personal stuff

A little journey around my beautiful country, Venezuela!:

Walking around the nice Edinburgh, in Scotland!:

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Updated on September 7, 2005
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About me

My PhD. Research Project

@SkeLCore: Algorithmic Skeletons for Reconfigurable Computing

Abstract:

Recent Publications

Attendant to Conferences, Seminars and Workshop

Links to Interest Sites

My Personal stuff