This is the April 2002 Digest of SIGARCH Messages (sigarch-apr02): * 9th Int'l Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA) Call for Papers: http://www.cs.arizona.edu/hpca9/ Submitted by Soner Onder <soner@mtu.edu> * Second Workshop on Caching, Coherence, and Consistency (WC3 '02) at International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS 2002) Call for Abstracts: http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~wc3/ Submitted by Ricardo Bianchini <ricardob@cs.rutgers.edu> * IFIP WG 7.3 Performance 2002 Call for Papers: http://perf2002.uniroma2.it Submitted by John C.S. Lui <cslui@cse.cuhk.edu.hk> --Mark D. 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Feb. 8-12, 2003 http://www.cs.arizona.edu/hpca9/ Important Dates Paper submission deadline : July 12, 2002 Workshop proposals due : July 12, 2002 Author Notification : Oct. 1, 2002 Camera ready copy due : Nov. 3, 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. Authors are invited to submit full papers 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 * Impact of VLSI scaling techniques * Novel architectures for emerging applications * Power-efficient architectures * High-availability architectures * High-performance I/O architectures * Embedded and reconfigurable architectures * Real-time architectures * Interconnection networks and network interfaces * Innovative hardware/software trade-offs * Simulation and performance evaluation * Benchmarking and measurements Please check the following web site for paper submission information: http://www.cs.arizona.edu/hpca9/ The submission should not exceed 6000 words. Papers that exceed the length limit or that cannot be viewed using Adobe Acrobat Reader (version 3.0 or higher) may not be reviewed. The official submission deadline is July 12, 2002 (Midnight EST, USA). An automatic extension of one week will be given without request. No further extensions will be given. Papers may be submitted for blind review at the option of the authors. Please indicate whether the paper is a student paper for best student paper nominations. Please submit proposals for workshops to the workshop chair by July 12, 2002. Important Dates Paper submission deadline : July 12, 2002 Workshop proposals due : July 12, 2002 Author Notification : Oct. 1, 2002 Camera ready copy due : Nov. 3, 2002 General Chairs Nader Bagherzadeh, Univ. of California, Irvine Laxmi N. Bhuyan, Univ. of California, Riverside Steering Committee Dharma P. Agrawal, Univ. of Cincinnati Laxmi N. Bhuyan, Univ. of California, Riverside Yale Patt, Univ. of Texas at Austin Jean-Luc Gaudiot, Univ. of California, Irvine Joel Emer, Intel David Kaeli, Northeastern Univ. Pen-Chung Yew, Univ. of Minnesota David Lilja, Univ. of Minnesota Program Chair Rajiv Gupta, Univ. of Arizona Program Committee Todd Austin, Univ. of Michigan Pradip Bose, IBM Doug Burger, Univ. of Texas at Austin Brad Calder, Univ. of California, San Diego Dan Connors, Univ. of Colorado Tom Conte, NC State Univ. Darren Cronquist, HP Labs Chita Das, Penn State Univ. Sandhya Dwarkadas, Univ. of Rochester Marius Evers, AMD Kanad Ghose, SUNY Binghamton Antonio Gonzalez, UPC, Barcelona James Goodman, Univ. of Wisconsin Wei-Chung Hsu, Univ. of Minnesota Yiming Hu, Univ. of Cincinnati Stephen Jenks, Univ. of California, Irvine Steve Melvin, Zytek Walid Najjar, Univ. of California, Riverside Soner Onder, Michigan Technological Univ. Santosh Pande, Georgia Tech Sanjay Patel, UIUC John Shen, Intel, MRL Josep Torrellas, UIUC Mateo Valero, UPC, Barcelona Jie Wu, Florida Atlantic Univ. Yuanyuan Yang, SUNY at Stony Brook Local Arrangements Chair Stephen Jenks, Univ. of California, Irvine Workshop Chair Walid Najjar, Univ. of California, Riverside Publications Chair Li-Shiuan Peh, Princeton University Finance and Registration Chair Nayla Nassif, Univ. of California, Irvine Publicity Chair Soner Onder, Michigan Technological Univ. If you have any questions about HPCA-9, please do not hesitate to contact soner@mtu.edu. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Second Workshop on Caching, Coherence, and Consistency (WC3 '02) June 22, 2002 in conjunction with the 16th Annual ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS 2002) New York, NY, USA http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~wc3/ Motivation The workshop aims to bring together researchers from various areas of computer science whose work is related to data caching, coherence, and consistency. Interestingly, these three topics have been present in the research agenda of several independent communities that usually do not meet. The interest in these topics started in the computer architecture community and now pervades in parallel and distributed systems research. There have also been significant efforts to address caching, coherence, and consistency topics using compiler, operating system, or application support. The same topics have been addressed by the operating system community in the context of file and storage systems for both servers and mobile systems. More recently, the interest in these issues has been revived by the web technologies, including content and service replication and distribution. This workshop is the first forum to bring together people from all these areas of research by recognizing that their specific caching, coherence, and consistency issues have common denominators that can lead to fruitful discussions and exchange of ideas. The first edition of this workshop, which took place in conjunction with ICS'01, was very successful and the participants were particularly appreciative to the idea of bringing researchers from all these areas together. This workshop continued the tradition of the workshops on software DSM, which were associated with ICS in 1999 and 2000. Scope We solicit abstracts of original research including, but not limited to, the following areas: * Memory caches * Cache modeling and analysis * Consistency models * File and storage caching * Caching, coherence, and consistency in shared-memory multiprocessors * Caching, coherence, and consistency in clusters * Caching, coherence, and consistency in peer-to-peer systems * Caching, coherence, and consistency in mobile systems * Web caching, coherence, and consistency * Web content replication and distribution Authors are invited to submit 5-page extended abstracts that demonstrate original and unpublished research in the areas of data caching, coherence, and consistency. Abstracts should be emailed to wc3@cs.rutgers.edu in postscript or pdf format. Accepted papers can be up to 10 pages long and will be published by the workshop. One of the authors will be required to attend the workshop and present the work. Important Dates May 1, 2002: Extended abstracts due. May 20, 2002: Notification sent to authors. June 10, 2002: Camera-ready papers due. Program Committee: TBA Workshop Organizers Ricardo Bianchini Department of Computer Science Rutgers University Piscataway, NJ 08854-8019 E-mail: ricardob@cs.rutgers.edu Liviu Iftode Department of Computer Science University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 E-mail: iftode@cs.umd.edu Contact Please, send any questions or comments about the workshop to wc3@cs.rutgers.edu. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Performance 2002 IFIP WG 7.3 International Symposium on Computer Performance Modeling, Measurement and Evaluation September 23 - 27, 2002 Rome, Italy Preliminary Call for Papers The 22nd IFIP WG 7.3 symposium will address state-of-the-art techniques and tools for performance evaluation with particular emphasis on new areas, such as, Internet and Web, active networks and content distribution networks. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Techniques and tools for analytic modeling, simulation, performance optimization, stochastic modeling, model checking, reliability analysis, system measurement and monitoring, workload characterization. Performance-oriented design and evaluation studies of communication networks, active networks, Web architectures, computer architectures, database systems, operating systems, multimedia systems, real-time systems, fault-tolerant systems. Program Paper/Poster Sessions: Full papers should not exceed 20 double-spaced pages including figures, tables and references. A limited number of submitted papers will be accepted for a poster session. Authors wishing to have their work considered for the poster session may submit a short paper not exceeding 5 double-spaced pages. Submissions must be made electronically as Postscript or Adobe PDF files through the Conference Web site (http://perf2002.uniroma2.it). In case of problems, send papers by email to papers@perf2002.uniroma2.it. Papers will be selected on the basis of their originality, relevance and clarity. Full papers will be published in a special issue of the Journal Performance Evaluation (Elsevier) available at the conference. Tutorial Sessions: Tutorial proposals, not exceeding 5 pages, have to include title, abstract, duration, intended audience, assumed background of attendees, name, affiliation and a biographical sketch of the instructors. Proposals should be sent to tutorials@perf2002.uniroma2.it. Evaluation of proposals will be based on instructor expertise, and on the relevance of the subject matter. A book of survey papers on the tutorial topics will be published. Publisher is under negotiation. Hot/Controversial Topic Sessions: Proposals are solicited for sessions in which a group of speakers will present and discuss ideas on recent results in a hot or controversial area. Send proposals for these sessions to proposals@perf2002.uniroma2.it, specifying the name, affiliation and a brief biography of organizer(s) of the session, the session title, and a list of possible speakers. The submission should also indicate whether any published material is required for the session. Awards: The Scientific Committee will assign the "Best Paper" and the "Best Student Paper" awards. Papers eligible for the student award must have a full-time student as the first author. IMPORTANT DATES: Registration of paper submission at the submission web site: March 31, 2002 ***************** Submission of full papers and Proposals for special sessions: April 5, 2002 Notification of acceptance: June 4, 2002 Camera-Ready papers: June 25, 2002 For Further Information: info@perf2002.uniroma2.it http://perf2002.uniroma2.it ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------