This is the November 2001 Digest of SIGARCH Messages (sigarch-nov01): * Launch of Computer Architecture Letters Call for Papers Submitted by Kevin Skadron <skadron@cs.virginia.edu> * Errata on "Measuring Experimental Error in Microprocessor Simulation" http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/cart/publications/CAN02.pdf Submitted by Doug Burger <dburger@cs.utexas> * MICRO-34: Int'l Symposium on Microarchitecture Call for Participation: http://www.microarch.org/micro34/ Submitted by computer-architecture-announcement-admin@cs.colorado.edu * HPCA-8: Int'l Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture Call for Participation & Workshop Call for Papers http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/hpca8 Submitted by Andreas Moshovos <moshovos@eecg.toronto.edu> * PLDI 2002: Programming Language Design and Implementation Call for Tutorials: http://sunshine.cs.uni-dortmund.de/~knoop/PLDI2002/pldi2002_call4tutorials.html Submitted by Kathryn S. McKinley <mckinley@cs.utexas.edu> * SIGMETRICS: Int'l Conf. of Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems **Deadline extended to November 2, 2001** Call for Papers: http://www.ee.princeton.edu/~sigm2002 Call for Papers *not* included here, because it was include last month Submitted by Elizabeth Royer <sigmet02@cs.ucsb.edu> --Mark D. Hill infodir_SIGARCH@acm.org SIGARCH Information Director To remove yourself from the SIGARCH mailing list, mail listserv@acm.org with message body: unsubscribe SIGARCH-MEMBERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers announcing the launch of ********** Computer Architecture Letters ********* ***** A refereed forum for technical letters ***** Beginning with the January, 2002 issue, the Newsletter of the TCCA is changing name and focus. Computer Architecture Letters will be a quarterly forum for short, critically refereed, technical "letters", with an emphasis on rapid review and publication. Accepted letters will be published immediately on the TCCA website and in the next available paper issue. We are seeking immediate submissions for our inaugural issue in January. All submissions must consist of original work. Submitted letters must be four pages or fewer, including all figures, tables, and references. Submissions exceeding this length will be returned without review. Papers should use 8.5in x 11in (21.55cm x 28cm) paper with 1-in (2.5cm) margins, 10-pt. or larger font, and single spacing. Please submit electronically in postscript or PDF, and ensure that the submitted file can be viewed in ghostview or Acrobat Reader 3.0. No hard copy is necessary. Submissions will be accepted on a continuing basis, but to ensure publication in the January issue, manuscripts should be submitted by Dec. 21, 2001. Authors should direct their submissions to the TCCA website at http://www.computer.org/tab/tcca/ and each submission will be assigned to an appropriate member of the Editorial Board to manage the review process. Upon acceptance, a standard IEEE copyright release will be required. For questions, please send e-mail to tcca@cs.virginia.edu. Submissions are welcomed on any topic in computer architecture, especially but not limited to: - Microprocessor and multiprocessor systems - Microarchitecture and ILP processors - Workload characterization - Performance evaluation and simulation techniques - Compiler-hardware and operating system-hardware interactions - Interconnect architectures - Power and thermal issues at the architecture level - I/O architectures and techniques - Independent validation of previously published results - Analysis of unsuccessful techniques - Network and embedded-systems processors - Real-time and high-availability architectures - Reconfigurable systems CAL is published by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Computer Architecture Editor-in-Chief Yale N. Patt, The Univ. of Texas at Austin Associate Editor-in-Chief Kevin Skadron, Univ. of Virginia TCCA Chair Jean-Luc Gaudiot, Univ. of Southern California Editorial Board Dharma P. Agrawal, Univ. of Cincinnati Jose Duato, Technical Univ. of Valencia Joseph A. Fisher, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Mark A. Franklin, Washington Univ. Michael Flynn, Stanford Jean-Luc Gaudiot, Univ. of Southern California Allan Gottlieb, New York Univ. John Gurd, Univ. of Manchester Mark Hill, Univ. of Wisconsin Wen-mei Hwu, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Norman P. Jouppi , Compaq WRL David R. Kaeli, Northeastern Univ. Rami G. Melhem, Univ. of Pittsburgh Yale N. Patt, The Univ. of Texas at Austin Ronny Ronen, Intel Issac Scherson, Univ. of California - Irvine Gabriel M. Silberman, IBM Guri Sohi, Univ. of Wisconsin Per Stenstrom, Chalmers Mateo Valero, Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya Stamatis Vassiliadis, Tech. Univ. of Delft Uri Weiser, Intel ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Title: Errata on "Measuring Experimental Error in Microprocessor Simulation" Authors: Rajagopalan Desikan, Doug Burger, Stephen W. Keckler, Llorenc Cruz, Fernando Latorre, Antonio Gonza'lez and Mateo Valero Abstract: This short paper serves to correct the errors contained in the paper entitled "Measuring Experimental Error in Microprocessor Simulation," presented at the 2001 International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA-28). That paper contained a study of a validated microarchitectural simulator called sim-alpha, and included a case study that compared results obtained from a configuration of sim-alpha to those reported by Cruz et al. in ISCA 2000. The comparison showed a disparity in the results between the two studies, which was invalid due to an error in the way the operand bypass network of sim-alpha was modified. In this paper, we present a revised comparison that models the bypass network in sim-alpha consistently with the work of Cruz et al. We show that the new comparison between the revised results and the Cruz paper shows similar trends, thus validating the accuracy of the Cruz paper's methodology and results. This paper is to appear in the March 2002 issue of Computer Architecture News (CAN), but is available now at: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/cart/publications/CAN02.pdf ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MICRO-34 Announcements The 34th International Symposium on Microarchitecture Austin, Texas, Dec. 1-5 2001 http://www.microarch.org/micro34/ IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS: * On-line Conference & Workshop/Tutorial Registration * On-line Hotel Registration and Travel Information * On-line Student Travel Grant Application * Key-note Speakers: Cragon and Wolfe * Micro-34 Program * Micro-34 Invitation: Yale Patt On-line Conference and Workshop/Tutorial Registration is Available http://www.microarch.org/micro34/micro_symp_reg.html Deadline for early registration is November 15th. On-line registration runs thru November 25th. Saturday: Morning Tutorial: Architectural Exploration with Liberty Afternoon Tutorial: Itanium Open Research Compiler All-Day Workshops: Feedback-Directed and Dynamic (FDDO-4) Multi-Threaded Execution, Architecture and Compilers (MTEAC-5) Sunday: Morning Tutorial: SimpleScalar Version 4.0 Toolset Release Afternoon Tutorial: Network Processing Applications, Architectures, and Examples All-Day Workshops: Workshop on Workload Characterization (WWC-4) Media and Stream Processors (MSP-3) EPIC Architecture and Compilation (EPIC-1) On-line Hotel Registration is Available http://www.microarch.org/micro34/travel_information.html Conference hotel on-line registration ends November 28th. Other surrounding hotels are also listed. On-Line Student Travel Application is Available http://www.microarch.org/micro34/student_travel_grants.html Grant application deadline is November 2nd. Micro-34 Key-Note Speakers Harvey Cragon, University of Texas at Austin- "Fifty Years of Microarchitecture" Andrew Wolfe, SONICblue- "Emerging Applications for the Connected Home" Abstracts available: http://www.microarch.org/micro34/keynote_speakers.html Micro-34 Final Program and Abstracts are Available: http://www.microarch.org/micro34/advance_program.html Micro-34 Invitation: The MICRO-34 organizing committee is pleased to announce that MICRO-34 will take place in Austin, Texas from Dec. 2 to Dec. 5, 2001. MICRO continues to be the premier technical forum for microarchitecture. It is well attended by both academics and industry people whose expertise is in the design, understanding, and tradeoffs of microprocessors. Austin is unique: a focal point of high tech industry, a world-class university, and a cultural center known for its live music, diversity, and restaurants. Austin provides a spectacular and enjoyable location for Micro-34. Plan to enjoy a profound technical program, but also this unique location. We have chosen the Marriott as the conference hotel. It is ideally situated, a short walk from Austin's famous 6th Street (live music and restaurants), the Texas state capitol building, and The University of Texas. As always, students are especially encouraged to attend Micro-34. We expect a record amount of funding for student travel grants through generous corporate sponsorship. Details regarding student travel will be made available. Any questions or suggestions, please contact me at: patt@ece.utexas.edu. Yale Patt Micro-34 General Chair The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- HPCA-8: 8th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture Call for Participation and Workshops: Call for Paper Submissions The HPCA-8 organizing committee is pleased to announce the HPCA-8 conference to be held in Cambridge, Mass. from Feb. 2 to Feb. 6, 2002. The International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture provides a high quality forum for scientists and engineers to present their latest research findings in this rapidly changing field. This forum is well attended by both academic and industrial experts on computer architecture. Please visit the conference's web site for additinal information: http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/hpca8 In addition to the main program, this year's HPCA offers six workshops on a variety of focus areas in computer architecture. You are invited to submit contributions. Please check the workshop sites (given below and also accessible via http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/hpca8) for additional information on scope and submission procedures. HPCA-8 sponsors: IEEE TCCA and Intel. Saturday, February 2, 2002 **** CAECW-02: Computer Architecture Evaluation Using Commercial Workloads http://tesla.hpl.hp.com/caecw-02 **** PACS'02: Power-Aware Computer Systems http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~pacs02 **** SAN-1: Workshop on Novel Uses of System Area Networks http://www.csl.cornell.edu/SAN-1 Sunday, February 3, 2002 **** Non-Silicon Computing http://www.crhc.uiuc.edu/nsc **** Network Processors Workshop http://www.cs.washington.edu/NP1 **** INTERACT-6:The 6th Annual Workshop on Interaction between Compilers and Computer Architectures http://class.ee.iastate.edu/ghlee/Interact-6 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PLDI 2002 Call for Tutorials Now is your chance to tell the compiler writers what to do. PLDI 2002 is seeking tutorials from microprocessor designers to help them design the compilers of the future now. The deadline for submissions is Friday March 1, 2002. See the following for more details: http://sunshine.cs.uni-dortmund.de/~knoop/PLDI2002/pldi2002_call4tutorials.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------