Attached is the SIGARCH mailing list digest for July 2001 (grep sigarch-juln01): * 2001 International Symposium on Low Power Design http://www.cse.psu.edu/~islped * HPCA 8 Call for Proposals for Workshops and Tutorials http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/hpca8 * MASCOTS 2001 Participation http://www.ececs.uc.edu/mascots/ * PACT'01: Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques http://www.ac.upc.es/pact01 * MEDEA Workshop at PACT: MEmory access DEcoupled Architectures http://www.dii.unisi.it/medea * Hot Chips http://www.hotchips.org * Removing yourself from SIGARCH mailing list --Mark D. Hill infodir_SIGARCH@acm.org SIGARCH Information Director ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark D. Hill Office 6373 CSS Professor & Romnes Fellow Phone 608-262-2196 Computer Sciences Department Asstnt 608-265-3402 University of Wisconsin-Madison FAX 608-262-9777 1210 West Dayton Street E-mail markhill@cs.wisc.edu Madison, WI 53706-1685 USA http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~markhill ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Advance Program for the 2001 International Symposium on Low Power Design August 6 and 7 Huntington Beach, California is available at http://www.cse.psu.edu/~islped Cut-off date for advance resgistration is July 27th Submitted by Mary Jane Irwin <mji@cse.psu.edu>. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 8th International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture HPCA-8 Paper submission deadline is July 13 (+ 1 week). Additional information is available through: http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/hpca8 HPCA-8 Call for Workshops and Tutorials Deadline for proposals: July 13, 2002. E-mail workshop proposals to Antonio Gonzalez, antonio@ac.upc.es E-mail tutorials proposals to Gus Uht, uht@ele.uri.edu *** WORKSHOPS *** Several workshops are planned to be offered in conjunction with HPCA-8, immediately before the conference proper. Prospective workshop organizers should send a detailed proposal to the Workshops Chair (Antonio Gonzalez, antonio@ac.upc.es) by July 13. Organizers are invited to submit proposals on all aspects of high-performance computer architecture. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: . Processor architectures . Cache and memory architectures . Parallel computer architectures . Novel architectures for emerging applications . Architectural support for dynamic optimization . Power-efficient architectures . High-performance I/O architectures . Embedded and reconfigurable architectures . Real-time architectures . Application-specific processors . Interconnection networks and network interfaces . Simulation and performance evaluation .Interaction between compilers and computer architecture Please submit your proposal(s) in PDF format only. The proposal should contain the following: 1. Workshop title 2. Length of workshop (1 or 2 days) 3. Description of the workshop (about 1 page) 4. Name(s) and affiliation(s) of the organizer(s) *** TUTORIALS *** Several tutorials are planned to be offered in conjunction with HPCA-8, immediately before the conference proper. Prospective tutorial presenters are requested to send a detailed proposal to the tutorials Chair (Gus Uht, mailto: uht@ele.uri.edu) by July 13. Please submit your proposal(s) in PDF format only. The proposal should contain the following: 1. Tutorial Title 2. Length of tutorial (1/2 day or 1 day) 3. Syllabus (brief description of subject matter) 4. Detailed outline (about 1-2 pages single-spaced) 5. Intended audience, including assumed attendee background 6. Name(s), affiliation(s) and resume(s) or CV's of the speaker(s) 7. Special presentation requirements, e.g., data projector. 8. Proposed set of handouts for the attendees. Submitted by Andreas Moshovos <moshovos@eecg.toronto.edu> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Participation M A S C O T S 2001 Ninth International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems August 15-18, 2001, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society In Cooperation with ACM SIGSIM and SIGARCH The advance program and registration details for MASCOTS 2001 are available via the conference web site: -------------------------------- http://www.ececs.uc.edu/mascots/ -------------------------------- Symposium Highlights: -------------------- Tutorials on state-of-the-art topics: o Teletraffic Models and Tools: From Basics to Advanced by K. Sohraby (Univ. of Missouri-Kansas City) o Java Performance by V. Mainkar (AT&T) o Network-Based Computing: Issues, Trends and Challenges, by D. Panda (Ohio State Univ.) Keynote speeches by leaders of the field: o Mark Squillante (IBM TJ Watson) o John Hines (Air Force Research Lab, WPAFB) o Richard Fujimoto (Georgia Tech) Paper sessions on timely topics: o Real-time systems o Capacity planning o Broadband o Wireless systems o Routing o Network traffic o Switching o File systems o WWW o Modeling o Network simulation/emulation o Parallel and distributed simulation o Tools o Benchmarking Important Dates: --------------- 13 July, 2001 Advance registration deadline 24 July, 2001 Hotel reservation deadline 15 August, 2001 Tutorial sessions 16-18 August, 2001 Paper sessions Organizing Committee: -------------------- o General Chair: Dharma P. Agarwal (University of Cincinnati) o Program Chair: David Nicol (Dartmouth College) o Program Vice-Chair Felipe Perrone (Institute for Security Technology Studies, Dartmouth College) o Tools Chair: Azzedine Boukerche (University of North Texas) o Tutorials Chair: Philip A. Wilsey (University of Cincinnati) o Publicity Chair: Samir R. Das (University of Cincinnati) o Local Arrangements Chair: Yiming Hu (University of Cincinnati) o Registration and Finance Chair: Karen Tomko (University of Cincinnati) Submitted by Samir Das <sdas@ececs.uc.edu> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PACT'01: International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques NEW early registration deadline: July 25, 2001 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Barcelona, Spain. September 8-12, 2001 http://www.ac.upc.es/pact01 Dear colleague, Just a reminder that the deadline for advance registration to the 10th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques PACT'01 is July 25, 2001 (new deadline). PACT'01 will take place in Barcelona (Spain), September 8-12, 2001. We strongly suggest that you make your room reservations in advance. Some of the hotels offered to PACT'01 delegates have the reservation deadline close (during this month). Conference: September 10-12 --------------------------- The conference program includes three outstanding keynote speakers: - Randall D. Isaac (VP Science and Technology, IBM Research) - Justin Rattner (Intel Fellow and Director of Microprocessor Research Labs MRL) - Joel Emer (Compaq Staff Fellow) 26 cutting-edge research papers organized in 9 Technical Sessions and a special session on: - Work in Progress: researchers are invited to submit abstracts of new research and wild ideas by July 13th. Before the conference, 2 tutorials and 5 workshops will be held on September 8-9: Workshops: ---------- Saturday, September 8th - EWOMP'01 (full day). European Workshop on OpenMP (submission closed, advance program available) - WBT'01 (full day). Workshop on Binary Translation (submission closed). - MEDEA'01 (morning). Workshop on Memory Access Decoupled Architectures (submission deadline: July 7, 2001). Sunday, September 9th - EWOMP'01 (full day). Continuation from previous day. - COLP'01 (full day). Workshop on Compilers and Operating Systems for Low Power (submission deadline: August 1, 2001). - WUCC'01 (morning). Workshop on Ubiquitous Computing and Communication (submission closed). Tutorials: ---------- Saturday, September 8th (afternoon) - 3G Wireless Infrastructure: Architecture, Algorithms, and Applications. Allan Berenbaum, Nevin Heintze, Stefanos Kaxiras and Girija Narlikar. Sunday, September 9th (afternoon) - The Design and Implementation of the Jalapeno JVM. Michael Hind, IBM Research. For additional information about the conference, the complete advance program with information about the workshops and tutorials, registration and accomodation, please vit the conference site located at: http://www.ac.upc.es/pact01 Submitted by pact2001@ac.upc.es ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MEDEA Workshop MEmory access DEcoupled Architectures and related issues September 8, 2001, Barcelona, Spain http://www.dii.unisi.it/medea held in conjuction with PACT 2001 Conference September 8-12, 2001, Barcelona, Spain http://research.ac.upc.es/pact01/ List of Topics -------------- We solicit papers of original research including, but not limited to, the following areas: Memory Access Decoupling Compiler Based Decoupling Function Decoupling Processor Architecture Latency Tolerance Instruction Level Parallelism Thread Level Parallelism New RAM Architectures Multithreading Chip Multiprocessors Important Dates --------------- July, 7 2001 Submission Deadline (plus 1 week extension) July, 25 2001 Acceptance Notification August, 1 2001 Final Papers Due September, 8-12 2001 PACT Conference in Barcelona, Spain Scope and Motivation -------------------- Most of today's advanced processor architectures are based on the Superscalar and Multiple Issue paradigm. These include MIPS-R10000, Power-PC, Ultra-Sparc, Alpha 21164 and 264, Pentium family. Research has been developed to exploit Instruction Level Parallelism (ILP), Branch Prediction, Predicative Execution, Speculative Loads, VLIW (e.g. Itanium, i.e. IA-64/EPIC), Multithreaded Approach (Compaq EV8, i.e. Alpha 21464), and Chip Multiprocessor (CMP, IBM Power4). This workshop aims to bring up an old idea, Access Decoupling, in this new arena. We wish to hear from people working in multithreading, Thread Level Parallelism, ILP, superscalar processors, novel RAM architectures, memory hierarchy optimizations, data dependencies optimizations both from compiler and architectural point of view. Many research groups have recently revived Access Decoupling and its now time to show how this paradigm can wide the spectrum of solutions to overcome the memory-wall problem. In particular, we'd like to explore new sources for parallelism. In this workshop, we wish to put in contact people interested in evaluating how the old idea of memory access decoupling could be applied in this new scenario as a viable alternative to new processor designs. Organizing Commitee ------------------- Roberto Giorgi, giorgi@acm.org University of Siena, Italy Cosimo Antonio Prete, prete@iet.unipi.it University of Pisa, Italy Jelica Protic, jeca@sezampro.yu University of Belgrade, YU Submission details ------------------ We only accept electronic submissions in PDF format. Please format your paper by following the author guidelines specified in: http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm In brief: authors should provide papers in 8.5x11-inch IEEE proceedings format. The maximum number of pages is limited to 6. Please do not use fonts smaller than 10 points. In case of selection for further publication, authors may be required to extend their paper. Submitted by Roberto Giorgi <giorgi@acm.org> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- HOT Chips 13 A Symposium on High-Performance Chips August 19-21, 2001, Memorial Auditorium Stanford University, Palo Alto, California ADVANCE PROGRAM Hot Chips 13 brings together designers and architects of high-performance chips, software, and systems. Presentations focus on up-to-the-minute real developments. This symposium is the primary forum for engineers and researchers to highlight their leading-edge designs. Three full days of tutorials and technical sessions will keep you on top of the industry. Sunday August 19 ----------------- Morning Tutorial Jan Rabaey, UC Berkeley * Silicon Platforms for the Next-Generation Wireless Systems Afternoon Tutorial Rob A. Rutenbar, Carnegie Mellon/Neolinear, Ramesh Harjani, Univ. of Minnesota * Design at the Leading Edge of Mixed-Signal IC Monday August 20 ------------------ Microprocessors I * R18000, The latest SGI Superscalar Microprocessor, Silicon Graphics * The ARM10 family of Embedded Microprocessor Cores, ARM, inc. * Power4 System Design for High Reliability, IBM Embedded Solutions * Embedded Benchmarking w/ an Xtensa Configurable Processor, Tensilica * SH-5: A First 64-bit SuperH Core with Multimedia Extension, Hitachi * Gekko: a PPC supporting high-performance 3D graphics, IBM Keynote: Atiq Raza, Raza Foundries Silicon for a 10 Gigabit-per-second connected world Integrated Communications and Networking * A Mobile Station Modem Chip for WCDMA, Qualcomm * nFlex, A Broadband Wireless Communications Processor, nBand Comm. * InfiniBridge: An Integrated InfiniBand Switch/Channel Adapter, Mellanox High Speed Communications * Tiny Tera-X: A 2.5Tb/s switch core with LCS interface, PMC-Sierra * 5 GB/s backplane transceiver, Accelerant Networks * A Single-Chip Terabit Switch, Velio Comm. Panel: Moderator: Linley Gwennap, The Linley Group My network processor is better than your network processor! Tuesday August 21 ------------------ Network Switch Technology * Fast pattern matching and routing for OC-48, Agere Systems * Fabr-IC: Single-Chip Gigabit Ethernet Switch w/ Integrated Mem, MOSAID * Ultra high performance network memory, Alpine Microsys * Tyrant: A High Performance Storage over IP Switch Engine, Nishan Systems Storage * 1.8-inch Super Small Slim HDD, Toshiba * Microdrive: High Capacity Storage for the Handheld Revolution, IBM * DataPlay, a New Technology for Information Distribution, DataPlay Keynote : Mark Dean, IBM Fellow & VP of Systems Research Trends Impacting Computing Systems Design and the IT Industry Chip Multiprocessors * 53 GOPS Programmable Vision Processor, Infineon * A MIMD-based Multi Threaded Processor, Kirchoff Inst. * The Raw Processor: A Composeable 32-Bit Fabric, MIT Microprocessors II * Itanium Performance Insights from the IMPACT Compiler, Univ. of Illinois * The Intel 870 Family of Enterprise Chipsets, Intel * The Pentium 4 Processor, Intel ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Organizing Committee Program Committee Chair Lily Jow Compaq Program Co-Chairs Finance Angela Lee Compaq John Kubiatowicz UC Berkeley Publicity Cary Kornfeld kDesign Andy Wolfe SONICblue Vojin Oklobdzija UC Davis Advertising Allen Baum Compaq Program Committee Publications Linda McAllister Forest Baskett NEA David Moberly Agilent Bill Dally Stanford Registration Joe Fitzgerald Keith Diefendorff ARCCores Bala Joshi Intel Norm Jouppi Compaq Alice Young Jim Keller Broadcom Nicholas Blasgen NetScalar Chuck Moore Parthus Sys Local Arrag. Amr Zaky ARC Cores Jan Rabaey UC Berkeley Bob Lashley Sun Howard Sachs HGS Eng. Yusuf Abdulghani Apple Mitsuo Saito Toshiba Webmaster Ann Zeise GoMilpitas.com John Shen Intel At Large Martin Freeman Philips Rsrch Alan Jay Smith UC Berkeley Slava Mach SCVCS Chair George Taylor Howard Sachs HGS Eng. Marc Tremblay Sun Gail Sachs HGS Eng. John Wawrzynek UC Berkeley Alan Jay Smith UC Berkeley Bob Stewart SRE Kimming So Broadcom This is a preliminary program; changes may occur. Registration will begin at http://www.hotchips.org after June 1st. For the most up-to-the-minute details on presentations and schedules, and for information on registration, please check http://www.hotchips.org. For registration help, email mailto://registration@hotchips.org. For general questions, email mailto://info@hotchips.org Sponsored by the Technical Committee on Microprocessors and Microcomputers of the IEEE Computer Society Submitted by Alan Smith <smith@EECS.Berkeley.EDU> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Removing Yourself from SIGARCH Mailing List If your email address exactly matches the email address recorded on the SIGARCH list (no forwarding), you can remove yourself with: mail listserv@acm.org with message body (not subject): unsubscribe SIGARCH-MEMBERS If your email address does *not* match, mail me at infodir_SIGARCH@acm.org, and I will work to remove you from the list. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------