CALL FOR PAPERS - IISWC 2008

2008 Annual IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization

http://www.iiswc.org/

Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society and the Technical Committee on
Computer Architecture

Seattle, WA
September 14-16, 2008

Important Dates

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Abstracts Due: March 7, 2008
Paper Submission: March 14, 2008
Acceptance Notification: May 24, 2008

Call for Papers

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This symposium is dedicated to the understanding and characterization
of workloads that run on all types of computing systems. New
applications and programming paradigms continue to emerge as the
diversity and performance of computers increase. On the one hand,
computing workloads evolve and change with advances in
microarchitecture, compilers, programming languages, and
networking/communication technologies. On the other hand, improvements
in computing technology are usually based on a solid understanding and
analysis of existing workloads. Whether they are PDAs, wireless and
embedded systems at the low end or massively parallel systems at the
high end, the design of future computing machines can be significantly
improved if we understand the characteristics of the workloads that
are expected to run on them.

We solicit papers in all areas related to characterization of
computing system workloads. Topics of interest include (but are not
limited to):

@ Characterization of applications in areas including
o Search engines, e-commerce, web services, databases,
file/application servers
o Embedded, mobile, multimedia, real-time, 3D-Graphics, gaming,
telepresence
o Life sciences, bioinformatics, scientific computing
o Security, reliability, biometrics
@ Characterization of OS, Virtual Machine, middleware and library
behavior
o Virtual machines, Websphere, .NET, Java VM, databases
o Graphics libraries, scientific libraries
@ Characterization of system behavior, including
o Operating system and hypervisor effects and overheads
o Effects due to virtualization and dynamic optimization
o Hardware accelerators (GPGPU, XML, crypto, etc)
o Failures, availability, and reliability
o User behavior and system-user interaction
o Instrumentation methodologies for workload verification and
characterization
o Techniques for accurate analysis/measurement of production systems
@ Implications of workloads in design issues, such as
o Power management, reliability, security, performance
o Processors, memory hierarchy, I/O, and networks
@ Benchmark creation, analysis, and evaluation issues, including
o Multithreaded benchmarks
o Profiling, trace collection, synthetic traces
o Validation of benchmarks
@ Abstract modeling of program behavior
@ Emerging and future workloads
o Transactional memory workloads; workloads for multi/many-core
systems
o Stream-based computing workloads; web2.0/internet workloads

Special Feature: Benchmark Session

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IISWC will include a special benchmark session. Authors are invited
to submit C, C++, Java, or C# code and inputs to this code for
possible inclusion in a benchmark set that IISWC is making available
to researchers. A paper must also be submitted explaining the
benchmark and its relevance to its user community. Papers accompanying
selected benchmarks will be presented at a special session to be held
during the conference. Please contact the Benchmark Chair if you are
interested in submitting a paper for this special session.

Submission instructions will be made available at
http://www.iiswc.org/.

General Chairs

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David Christie, AMD
Alan Lee, AMD

Program Chairs

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Onur Mutlu, Microsoft Research
Ben Zorn, Microsoft Research

Program Committee

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Leslie Barnes, AMD
Pradip Bose, IBM Research
Martin Burtscher, UT-Austin
David Callahan, Microsoft
Luis Ceze, Washington
Brad Chen, Google
Derek Chiou, UT-Austin
Tom Conte, NC State
Adrian Cristal, BSC
Lieven Eeckhout, Ghent
Dror Feitelson, Hebrew University
Michael Hind, IBM Research
Hillery Hunter, IBM Research
David Kaeli, Northeastern
Hyesoon Kim, Georgia Tech
Charles Levine, Microsoft
Beng-Hong Lim, VMware
José Martínez, Cornell
Avi Mendelson, Intel
Partha Ranganathan, HP Labs
Steve Reinhardt, Reservoir Labs
Mike Schlansker, HP Labs
Mike Shebanow, Nvidia
Eric Sprangle, Intel
Jeffrey Vetter, Oak Ridge National Lab
Brad Waters, Microsoft

Benchmark Chair

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JoAnn Paul, Virginia Tech

Workshop/Tutorials Chair

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Suleyman Sair, NC State

Web and Publicity Chairs

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Brad Beckmann, AMD
Byeong-Kil Lee, Texas Instruments

Registration Chair

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Aamer Jaleel, Intel

Publications Chair

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Engin Ipek, Microsoft Research

Local Arrangements Chair

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Karin Strauss, AMD

IISWC Steering Committee

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Pradip Bose, IBM Research
Tom Conte, NC State University
Lieven Eeckhout, Ghent University
Jay Jayasimha, Intel
Lizy John, University of Texas at Austin
David Kaeli, Northeastern University
David Lilja, University of Minnesota
Ann Marie Maynard, IBM
Ravi Nair, IBM
John Shen, Nokia