[HiPEAC-announce] ACACES 2008 Call for application

[Koen De Bosschere]

                     ACACES 2008 Call for participation
                   Fourth International Summer School on 
               Advanced Computer Architecture and Compilation 
                           for Embedded Systems
                             L'Aquila, Italy
                  Sunday July 13 - Saturday July 19, 2008
               Organized by the HiPEAC Network of Excellence 
           sponsored by the 6th/7th European framework programme  
                   http://www.hipeac.net/summerschool
           
The ACACES Summer School is a one week summer school for computer architects

and compiler builders working in the field of high performance computer 
architecture and compilation for embedded systems. The school aims at the 
dissemination of advanced scientific knowledge and the promotion of 
international contacts among scientists from academia and industry. 
A distinguishing feature of this Summer School is its broad scope ranging 
from low level technological issues to advanced compilation techniques. In 
the design of modern computer systems one has to be knowledgeable about 
architecture as well as about the quality of the code, and how to improve 
it. This summer school offers the ideal mix of the two worlds, both at 
the entry level and at the most advanced level. 

The ACACES Summer School is organized by the HiPEAC Network of Excellence 
(http://www.HiPEAC.net), but it is open to everybody. However, previous 
training and/or experience in computer science as well as a background in 
computer architecture or compilation is indispensable. 

The Summer School will take place in L'Aquila, a small town about 100 km 
northeast of Rome, the capital town of Abruzzi and of the Province of 
L'Aquila. It will be held at the excellent facilities of the TILS, 
located on a small hill a few kilometers away from the center of L'Aquila. 

Students and lecturers will be accommodated in private rooms with standard 
hotel accommodation on campus, and they will stay on campus for one week. 
Hence, there will be lots of opportunities for interaction among the 
participants, both in and out the classrooms, during the meals, at the bar 
or at the pool table. Long after-the-lecture discussions are one of the 
major assets of this summer school. You will remember this summer school 
for a long time.

Scientific program
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Sunday July 13: Opening ceremony with a keynote talk
Starting on Monday 14, 2008:
12 courses spread over two morning slots and two afternoon slots. Per slot 
there are three parallel courses of which one can be taken. The topics 
of this year's Summer School will be presented by the following world-class 
experts in their domain. 

- Luca Benini, University of Bologna
    Communication-dominated architectures: toward Networks on Chip
- Chaitali Chakrabarti, Arizona State University
    Low Power System Design
- Nikil Dutt, University of California, Irvine
    Bus-based On-Chip Communication Architectures
- Babak Falsafi, EPFL
    Bridging the Processor/Memory Performance Gap
- Paolo Ienne, EPFL
    Automatic Customization of Embedded Processors
- Christos Kozyrakis, Stanford University
    Transactional Memory: Concepts, Implementations, and Opportunities
- Wayne Luk, Imperial College
    Reconfigurable Technology and Custom Computing
- Olav Lysne, Simula Research Laboratory
    Routing and Resource Utilization in Interconnection Networks
- Mary Lou Soffa, University of Virginia
    Model Driven and Dynamic Optimization
- Josep Torrellas, University of Illinois at UC
    Multiprocessor Architectures for Speculative Multithreading
- Dean Tullsen, University of California, San Diego
    Multi-core and multi-threaded processor architectures
- Leendert Van Doorn, AMD, Austin
    Virtualization Technologies

Sunday evening keynote: 
   The Multi-core Era: What does it mean? (and even more importantly,
   what does it NOT mean?) by Yale Patt, The University of Texas at Austin
Wednesday afternoon:  Poster session 
Friday evening: Farewell dinner and party

Certificate
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All participants will receive a certificate of attendance with a 
description of the courses followed. Some universities will accept
this certificate in their PhD program.

Poster Session
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The poster session on Wednesday afternoon will provide an ideal 
opportunity for students to present their own work in progress 
and get feedback from senior researchers and fellow-students, 
and can be the beginning of future collaboration. A booklet with 
a 1 to 4 page abstract per poster will be distributed to all 
summer school participants. 

Admission
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To stimulate maximum interaction between lecturers and 
participants, the steering committee of the Summer School will 
admit a limited number of participants. The application
form is on the website, and the deadline for application is 
April 1, 2008.

Important dates
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April 1, 2008: deadline for admission application
May 1, 2008: notification of admission
June 1, 2008: deadline for registration
June 1, 2008: deadline for poster abstract

Registration
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990 euro, all inclusive:
- Transfer from Rome to L'Aquila by bus on Sunday July 13, 2008. 
- 6 nights in an on campus private air-conditioned room with bathroom. 
- 6 breakfasts 
- 5 hot lunches consisting of 2 courses, a dessert, and wine/water 
- 5 dinners consisting of 2 courses, a dessert, and wine/water 
- Farewell dinner on Friday evening 
- 2 half-hour coffee breaks per day 
- Registration for 4 top-quality courses + printed handouts 
- Student kit 
- Access to the poster session + book of abstracts 
- Free Internet during the duration of the summer school 
- Free access to the sports facilities of the campus 
- Free transfer from L'Aquila to Fiumicino airport or to downtown Rome on 
  Saturday July 19, 2008. 

Steering Committee 
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Koen De Bosschere, Ghent University, Belgium, Chair 
David Bernstein, IBM, Haifa 
Marco Cornero, ST, Italy 
Marc Duranton, NXP, The Netherlands 
Georgi Gaydadjiev, TU Delft, The Netherlands 
Manolis Katevenis, FORTH, Greece 
Rainer Leupers, RWTH Aachen, Germany 
Mike O'Boyle, University of Edinburgh, UK 
Emre Ozer, ARM, UK 
Antonio Prete, University of Pisa, Italy 
Pascal Sainrat, INRIT, France 
Per Stenstrom, Chalmers, Sweden 
Olivier Temam, INRIA Futurs, Orsay, France 
Theo Ungerer, University of Augsburg, Germany 
Mateo Valero, UPC, Barcelona, Spain 

Contact information
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Koen De Bosschere
acaces at hipeac.net