The poster “Unleashing Heterogeneous Systems Capabilities for Compute-Intensive Workloads” received the Best Poster Award at the IPDPS 2026 PhD Forum.
The authors are Giuseppe Sorrentino, PhD student in Information Technology at the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering of Politecnico di Milano, and Davide Conficconi, researcher in the same Department.
The work explores new methods to make more effective use of modern heterogeneous computing systems, namely platforms that combine different specialized processing units. In particular, the study focuses on AMD Versal devices, which integrate programmable components and units dedicated to parallel and vector computations.
The aim of the research is to simplify the development of accelerators for complex, compute-intensive applications while maintaining high performance and efficiency.
The proposed methodology was validated on real use cases, including applications in 3D biomedical image registration.