SIGARCH-MSG: February 2002 Digest of SIGARCH Messages

["Mark D. Hill" <markhill@cs.wisc.edu>]

This is the February 2002 Digest of SIGARCH Messages (sigarch-feb02):

* International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP-2002)
  Call for Papers: http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/icpp2002
  Submitted by Michael J Voss <voss@eecg.toronto.edu>

* Hot Chips 14
  Call for Papers: http://www.hotchips.org
  Submitted by Allen Baum <allen.baum@intel.com>

* Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT)
  Call for Papers: http://www.pactconf.org/
  Submitted by Frank Mueller <fmuelle@moss.csc.ncsu.edu>

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Call for Papers! 
31st Annual Conference 
2002 International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP-2002)

http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/icpp2002 

The Renaissance Vancouver Hotel Harbourside
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

August 18-21, 2002

Sponsored by: 
  The International Association for Computers and Communications (IACC)
  In cooperation with The Ohio State University, USA

Scope:

The conference provides a forum for engineers and scientists in
academia, 
industry and government to present their latest research findings in any 
aspects of parallel and distributed computing.  Topics of interest
include, 
but are not limited to:

  * Architecture 
  * Programming Methodologies and Tools
  * Compilers and Languages 
  * Networking and Protocols
  * OS and Resource Management 
  * Internet Computing
  * Parallel/Distributed Algorithms 
  * Wireless and Mobile Computing
  * Network-Based Computing 
  * Web and Multimedia

Paper Submission:

Form of Submission: Not to exceed 25 double-spaced, 8.5 x 11-inch pages 
(including figures, tables and references) in 10-12 point font.  Number 
each page.  Include an abstract, five to ten keywords, the technical
area(s) 
most relevant to your paper, and the corresponding author's e-mail
address.  

Electronic Submission: Web-based submissions are strongly encouraged. 
Please 
see the conference web page for details.

Postal Submission: If electronic submission is not possible, please send 
six hard copies of the manuscript to: 

  Professor Tarek S. Abdelrahman
  The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering
  University of Toronto 
  10 King's College Road
  Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G4, Canada 

  E-mail: tsa@eecg.toronto.edu
  Tel: +1-416-978-4690          
  Fax: +1-416-971-2326

Submission Deadline: January 31, 2002
Author Notification: May 1, 2002
Final Manuscript Due: June 1, 2002 

Proceedings of the conference and workshops will be available at the 
conference. 
For Further Information please send e-mail to:
icpp02-info@eecg.toronto.edu 

Organizing & Program Committees 
-------------------------------

General Chair: David J. Lilja, Univ. of Minnesota, USA

Program Chair: Tarek Abdelrahman, Univ. of Toronto, Canada 

Program Vice-Chairs: 
  Architecture: Andreas Moshovos, Univ. of Toronto, Canada
  Compilers and Languages:  Rudolf Eigenmann, Purdue Univ., USA 
  Algorithms and Applications:  Oscar Ibarra, Univ. of Cal. Santa
Barbara, USA 
  OS/Resource Management:  Jon Weissman, Univ. of Minnesota, USA 
  Programming Methodologies & Tools:  Jose' Moreira, IBM, T.J. Watson,
USA 
  Network-Based and Cluster Computing:  Angelos Bilas, Univ. of Toronto,
Canada 
  Networking and Protocols:  Yuanyuan Yang, SUNY at Stony Brook, USA 
  Wireless  and Mobile Computing:  Albert Zomaya, Univ. of W. Australia,
Aust. 
  Web and Multimedia:  Chu-Sing Yang, Nat'l Sun Yat-Sen U., Taiwan 

Program Committee Members: 
   Please see the conference web page:
http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/icpp2002 

Workshops Chair: Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion Univ., USA

Awards Co-Chairs: Lionel Ni, Michigan State Univ., USA
                  Mateo Valero, U. Politec. de Catalunya, Spain 

Publicity Co-Chairs: Michael Voss, Univ. of Toronto, Canada 
                     Yu-Chee Tseng,  Nat'l Chiao-Tung U., Taiwan
                     Eduard Ayguade, U. Politec. de Catalunya, Spain

International Liaison Chair: Steve Lai, Ohio State Univ., USA 
Local Arrangements Chair: Robert Ito, Univ. of British Columbia, Canada  
Registration Chair:  Elizabeth O'Neill, Ohio State Univ., USA 
Treasurer:  Mike Liu, Ohio State Univ., USA 
Steering Committee Chair:  Tse-yun Feng, Penn State Univ., USA


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Hot Chips 14            Stanford University, Palo Alto, California,
Call for Submissions    August 2002

A Symposium on High-Performance Chips

Since it began in 1989, Hot Chips has been known as one of the
semiconductor industry's leading conferences on high-performance
microprocessors and related integrated circuits. The conference is held
once a year in August on the Stanford University campus in the center
of the world's capital of electronics activity, Silicon Valley. The
emphasis this year, as in previous years, is on real products and
realizable technology.

Topics of interest for this year's conference include:

*  High-performance microprocessors
*  Embedded processors
*  Low-power chips
*  Systems-on-chip
*  Single-chip multiprocessors
*  Special-function processors: DSP, multimedia, network
*  Special-function chips: graphics, security, communications
*  Nano and quantum computing
*  Novel compiler technology
*  Integrated MEMS devices
*  Performance evaluation
*  Binary translation
*  Operating system/chip interaction
*  Advanced semiconductor process technology
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Presentations at Hot Chips are in the form of 30-minute talks.
Presentation slides will be published in the Hot Chips Proceedings.
Participants are not required to submit written papers, but a select
group will be invited to submit a paper for inclusion in a special issue
of IEEE Micro.

Submissions must consist of a title, abstract (three pages maximum),
and the presenter's contact information (name, affiliation, job
title, address, phone, fax, and email). Please indicate whether you
have submitted or intend to submit a similar submission to another
conference or journal. Also indicate if you would like the submission
to be held confidential until the conference; we do our best to maintain
confidentiality.

Submissions are evaluated by the Program Committee on the basis of
the performance of the device, degree of innovation, use of advanced
technology, and potential market significance. Authors will be notified
of the status of their submission by the end of April, 2002.

Don't miss this chance to present your device to an audience of the
leading technologists in the world of semiconductors. Submissions must
be received no later than March 15, 2002. Please make your submissions in
Adobe Acrobat PDF format by email to hotchips@eecs.berkeley.edu.  For more
information check out the Hot Chips 14 Web site at www.hotchips.org.
Send questions to hotchips@eecs.berkeley.edu or contact:

        John Wawrzynek  at (510) 643-9434, or
        Keith Diefendorff at (650) 567-5188.

Sponsored by the Technical Committee on Microprocessors and Microcomputers
of the IEEE Computer Society.

        Program Committee Co-Chairs:
        Professor John Wawrzynek, UC Berkeley
        Keith Diefendorff, MIPS Technologies


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			   Call for Papers

			      PACT 2002

		The Eleventh International Conference on
	  Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques

	   Charlottesville, Virginia, September 22-25, 2002

		       http://www.pactconf.org/

	  sponsored by IEEE TCCA, IEEE TCPP, ACM SIGARCH and
			IFIP WG 10.3 (pending)


IMPORTANT DATES

   Mandatory Abstracts due: March 26, 2002 (11:59 p.m. EST)
   Papers due: April  2, 2002 (11:59 p.m. EST)
   Author notification: June 7, 2002
   Final papers due: July 5, 2002

CONFERENCE OBJECTIVES

PACT brings together researchers from architecture, compilers,
languages and applications to present ground-breaking research and
debate key issues of common interest. This premier conference, the
eleventh in the series, will be held in historic Charlottesville,
Virginia, home of the University of Virginia, which was founded by
Thomas Jefferson as one of the first public universities in the United
States. Charlottesville is nestled next to the beautiful Shenandoah
mountains, with the homes of three presidents (Jefferson, Madison, and
Monroe), Civil War sites, and many fine wineries nearby. Once again,
the focus of the conference will be on multi-disciplinary
research. PACT solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics,
including, but not limited to:

* Parallel architectures and computation models 
* Compilers and tools for parallel computer systems
* I/O issues in parallel computing 
* Parallel processing in the context of Java 
* Compiler/hardware support for efficient memory systems 
* New architectures and compilers for ILP and TLP
* Novel uses for threads to improve performance or power
* Applications and experimental systems studies 
* Application-specific systems
* Software dynamic translation and modification
* Hardware/software support for energy-aware computing systems
* Technologies for managing energy and heat
* Network processing and computing 
* Non-traditional computing system topics 
* Parallel programming languages and algorithms
* Operating system support for parallel systems
* Mobile/wireless computing in the context of parallel applications

INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS

Detailed instructions for electronic submission and important dates
will be posted on the PACT conference website. For any additional
information regarding paper submission, please contact the Program
Chairs, Erik Altman (erik@watson.ibm.com) or Sally McKee
(sam@cs.utah.edu). The paper submission deadline is April 2, 2002
(12:00 Midnight Eastern Standard Time) with mandatory abstracts due March 26,
2002 (same time).

TUTORIALS / WORKSHOPS

Proposals are solicited for tutorials and workshops to be held during
the conference. Interested individuals are invited to submit proposals
to the Workshop/Tutorial Chairs, Chen Ding (cding@cs.rochester.edu) and E. Christopher Lewis (lewis@cis.upenn.edu).

WORK IN PROGRESS SESSION

PACT will again feature a fun, informal WIP session for authors to
present eight-minute talks on research directions or wacky ideas. The
associated abstracts will be included in electronic versions of the
conference and workshop proceedings, and will be published later in an
appropriate newsletter. Contact WIP Chair Nikos Pitsianis
(nikos@bops.com) with questions about content and important dates.


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

General Chairs
  Jack W. Davidson, University of Virginia
  Kevin Skadron, University of Virginia
Program Chairs
  Erik Altman, IBM TJ Watson Research
  Sally A. McKee, University of Utah
Finance Chair
  Evelyn Duesterwald, HP Labs
Local Arrangements Chairs
  Bruce Childers, University of Pittsburgh
  Kevin Scott, University of Virginia
Publications Chair
  Martin Schulz, Technical University Munich, Germany
Publicity Chair
  Frank Mueller, North Carolina State University
Tutorial and Workshop Chairs
  Chen Ding, University of Rochester
  E. Christopher Lewis, University of Pennsylvania
Web Chair
  Lixin Zhang, University of Utah
Work in Progress Chair 
  Nikos Pitsianis, BOPS Inc.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

David Abramson (Monash Univ., Australia)
Eduard Ayguade (Technical Univ. of Catalonia, Spain)
Luc Bouge (IRISA, ENS Cachan/Bretagne, France)
George Cai (Intel)
Tien-Fu Chen (National Chung Cheng U., ROC)
Trishul Chilimbi (Microsoft)
Michel Cosnard (INRIA, France)
Jim Dehnert (Transmeta)
Bronis de Supinski (Lawrence Livermore National Lab)
Evelyn Duesterwald (HP Labs)
Sandhya Dwarkadas (Univ. of Rochester)
Kemal Ebcioglu (IBM Research)
Roberto Giorgi (Univ. of Siena, Italy)
R. Govindarajan (Indian Institute of Science, India)
Wilson Hsieh (Univ. of Utah)
Ali Hurson (Penn State Univ.)
Wen-Mei Hwu (Univ. of Illinois)
Wolfgang Karl (Technische Univ. Munich, Germany)
Dave Luick (IBM Rochester)
Tara Madhyastha (Univ. of California, Santa Cruz)
Margaret Martonosi (Princeton Univ.)
Bilha Mendelson (IBM Israel, Israel)
Soo-Mook Moon (Seoul National Univ., Korea)
Vijay Pai (Rice Univ.)
Steve Reinhardt (Univ. of Michigan)
John Shen (Intel)
Jim Smith (Univ. of Wisconsin)
Mary Lou Soffa (Univ. of Pittsburgh)
Kevin Theobald (Univ. of Delaware)
Marc Tremblay (Sun Microsystems)
Mateo Valero (Technical Univ. of Catalonia, Spain)


PACT 2002 Steering Committee 

Chair
Michel Cosnard (INRIA, France)

Nader Bagherzadeh (Univ. of California, Irvine)
Kemal Ebcioglu (IBM)
Skevos Evripidou (Univ. of Cyprus)
Ulrich Finger (Institut Eurecom, France)
Guang Gao (Univ. of Delaware)
Jean-Luc Gaudiot (Univ. of California, Irvine)
Ali Hurson (Penn. State Univ.)
Todd Mowry (Carnegie Mellon Univ.)
John Shen (Intel)
Gabriel M. Silberman (IBM)
Mary Lou Soffa (Univ. of Pittsburgh)
Mateo Valero (Technical Univ. of Catalonia, Spain)

Thank you very much for your time in reading this announcement. If
you have any questions about PACT'02, please contact me at
fmuelle@moss.csc.ncsu.edu, and I would be happy to help to the
extent I can. Please feel free to pass this announcement on to
other colleagues who might be interested.  We hope you will enjoy
the PACT'02 site.


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