CAECW-9 to be held with HPCA-12
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Call for Papers
9th Workshop on Computer Architecture Evaluation using Commercial Workloads
(CAECW-9)
immediately preceding
12th International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture
(HPCA-12)
to be held in Austin, TX
(tentatively) on Sunday, February 12, 2006
http://www.elis.ugent.be/~leeckhou/caecw9/
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The function of this workshop is the discussion of work-in-progress that
utilizes commercial workloads for the evaluation of computer architectures.
By discussing this ongoing research, the workshop will expose participants
to the characteristics of commercial workload behavior, provide an
understanding of how commercial workloads exercise computer systems and
potentially help establish methodologies for measuring, modeling and analyzing
the execution time characteristics of these workloads.
Topics of interest include:
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Traditional and emerging commercial workloads of interest
-- Transaction processing, decision support, ERP, main memory and
streaming database servers
-- Multi-tier environments, including e-commerce, web servers and
application servers
-- Data mining and search engines
-- Managed runtime systems (e.g., Java virtual machines)
-- Storage system workloads
-- Streaming media workloads
-- XML-based workloads
Workload analysis and characterization
-- Architecture-independent characterization of workloads
-- Impact of input data on workload behavior
-- Techniques for comparing workload behavior
-- Design and evaluation of synthetic workloads representative
of commercial workloads
-- Characterization of common components (packet processing,
XML processing, garbage collection, etc.)
Systems architecture and design
-- Processor, cache, memory, I/O, or network subsystem design and
analysis using commercial workloads
-- System-level design and analysis of parallel or multiprocessor
servers, including blade servers
-- Benefits of multi-core architectures (homogeneous or heterogeneous)
-- Benefits of server consolidation (virtual machines)
-- Energy-efficiency of commercial workloads
-- Application and/or OS kernel algorithm improvements to enhance
performance
-- Independent validation of previously proposed work using commercial
workloads
Evaluation techniques and methodologies
-- Simulation and analytical/statistical modeling techniques for
evaluating the performance of commercial workloads
-- Validations and comparisons of full-system simulators
-- Performance evaluation (hardware/software instrumentation) of
existing architectures using commercial workloads
-- Scalability considerations for commercial workloads
Submission guidelines:
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Interested authors are expected to submit a short paper (up to six pages)
by the submission deadline (see below) in either postscript or pdf format
to one of the workshop organizers. Papers will be reviewed and accepted by
the program committee based on their novelty, their relevance to the
workshop and their technical merit. Authors of accepted paper are expected
to submit the final version of their short paper (no more than six pages) by
the final version deadline. A bound proceedings will be distributed to the
workshop attendees. In addition, accepted papers will be made available on
the workshop's web site. Authors of accepted papers are also expected to
present their work during a 20 to 25 minutes talk .
Important dates:
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Paper submission deadline: November 18, 2005
Notification of acceptance: December 12, 2005
Final version deadline: January 6, 2006 (tentatively)
Workshop: February 12, 2006 (tentatively)
Workshop organizers:
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Lieven Eeckhout, Ghent University (leeckhou@elis.UGent.be)
Ravi Iyer, Intel Labs (ravishankar.iyer@intel.com)
Program Committee:
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Russell Clapp, Fabric7 Systems, Inc. (rmcl@acm.org)
Lieven Eeckhout, Ghent University (leeckhou@elis.UGent.be)
Ravi Iyer, Intel Labs (ravishankar.iyer@intel.com)
Kimberly Keeton, HP Labs (kkeeton@hpl.hp.com)
Emilio Salgueiro, Unisys Corporation (emilio.salgueiro@unisys.com)