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Call for Papers



Workshop on Design, Architecture and Simulation of Chip Multi-Processors

dasCMP 2008

http://passat.crhc.uiuc.edu/dasCMP
Held in conjunction with the 41st Annual International Symposium on 
Microarchitecture

Sunday, Novenber 9, 2008, Lake Como Italy



Organizers

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Norman P. Jouppi, HP Labs (norm.jouppi at hp.com)

Rakesh Kumar, UIUC (rakeshk at illinois.edu)

Dean M. Tullsen, UC San Diego (tullsen at cs.ucsd.edu)



Goal of the Workshop

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Chip multiprocessor architectures are becoming increasingly attractive 
as an option to provide high instruction throughput while keeping power 
and complexity under control. Such architectures have also been shown to 
have scalability and productivity advantages. Multi-core processors are 
fast becoming mainstream.



However, putting multiple cores on a die throws open several interesting 
research and design issues. From choosing the number of cores on the die 
to choosing the complexity of these cores, from constructing a chip 
multiprocessor out of off-the-shelf cores to creating a customized 
``multi-core aware'' multi-core design, there are several difficult

questions that need to be addressed. Connecting the cores, determining 
the right memory subsystem, ensuring coherence and consistency of data, 
and trying to limit the area and power budgets, all require a deep 
understanding of issues and innovative application of ideas. Even 
simulating and evaluating a chip multiprocessor represents a significant

challenge. There are equally interesting issues regarding programming 
and compilation for chip multiprocessors. All these questions and issues 
become more difficult and complicated for architectures with more than 
two cores.



The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers, computer 
architects, and engineers working on a broad spectrum of topics 
pertaining to the architecture, simulation, and design of chip 
multiprocessors. The workshop will provide a forum for presenting and 
exchanging new ideas and experiences in this area and to discuss and 
explore hardware/software techniques and tools for efficient multi-core 
computation.



Contributions from all aspects of multi-core architecture, design and 
simulation are encouraged; related areas like application of CMPs to 
solve new problems and programming and compilation for CMP architectures 
are welcome as well.



Topics of Interest

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The topics of interest for the workshop will include but are not limited 
to:



*Core design for CMPs, e.g. helper cores, conjoined-cores, heterogeneous 
multi-core architectures, etc.

*Novel Microarchitectures, e.g. tiled architectures, master-slave 
architectures, etc.

*Interconnects in CMPs, e.g. connections between cores, connections 
between cores and on-chip memory, networks-on-chip, etc.

*Cache coherence and consistency for CMPs

*On-chip/off-chip memory hierarchy and design for CMPs

*Applications of CMP architectures for solving problems, e.g. using 
multiple cores to enhance security, reliability, improve single-thread 
performance, reduce power, etc.

*Speculative Multithreading for CMPs

*Compiler, scheduling, and OS support for CMPs

*Programmability enhancements for CMPs

*Simulation and evaluation of CMPs, e.g. new simulators, simulation 
techniques, analytical evaluations

*Efficient design space exploration for multi-core architectures

*Workload/benchmark design and analysis for multi-core processors

*Performance evaluation/analysis/design of real multi-core processors



Full length conference papers are fine but not a requirement. Out-of-the 
box idea/position papers specially encouraged.



Program Committee

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Krste Asanovic, Berkeley

Rajeev Balasubramonian, Utah

Norman P. Jouppi, HP

Manolis Katenvis, FORTH and U. Crete, Greece

Stefanos Kaxiras, U. Patras, Greece

Christos Kozyrakis, Stanford

Rakesh Kumar, UIUC

Jim Laudon, Google

Sally McKee, Cornell

Martha Mercaldi, Columbia

Chuck Moore, AMD

Ravi Nair, IBM

Ronny Ronen, Intel

Per Stenstrom, Chalmers

Dean Tullsen, UCSD

David Wood, Wisconsin



Schedule

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Submission Deadline: August 15, 2008 (one week extension upon request)

Acceptance Notification: October 4, 2008

Final Version due: October 26, 2008