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SIGARCH-MSG: November 2002 Digest of SIGARCH Messages
This is the November 2002 Digest of SIGARCH Messages (sigarch-nov02):
* Sixth Workshop on Computer Architecture Evaluation using Commercial Workloads (CAECW) Call for Papers
http://tesla.hpl.hp.com/caecw03/
Submitted by Kimberly Keeton <kkeeton@harp.hpl.hp.com>
* 2nd Annual Workshop on Novel Uses of System Area Networks Call for Papers
http://www.csl.cornell.edu/SAN-2/
Submitted by Evan Speight <espeight@csl.cornell.edu>
* SIGMETRICS 2003 Call for Papers
http://www.crhc.uiuc.edu/sigm2003
Submitted by Dan Rubenstein <danr@cs.columbia.edu>
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* Sixth Workshop on Computer Architecture Evaluation using Commercial Workloads (CAECW) Call for Papers
Call for Abstracts
Sixth Workshop on
Computer Architecture Evaluation using Commercial Workloads (CAECW)
http://tesla.hpl.hp.com/caecw03/
Anaheim, California
February 9, 2003
Immediately precedes the
Ninth International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture
Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society
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EXTENDED ABSTRACT DUE: December 6, 2002
ACCEPTANCE NOTIFICATION: December 20, 2002
FULL PAPERS FOR DISTRIBUTION TO ATTENDEES: January 21, 2003
Building on the positive feedback enjoyed by the previous Workshops on
Computer Architecture Evaluation using Commercial Workloads, this sixth
workshop will again bring together researchers and practitioners in
computer architecture and commercial workloads from industry and academia.
In the course of one day, we will discuss work-in-progress that utilizes
commercial workloads for the evaluation of computer architectures. By
discussing this ongoing research, the workshop will expose participants to
the characteristics of commercial workload behavior and provide an
understanding of how commercial workloads exercise computer systems.
The workshop program will include a few invited talks from experts in the
field, and a set of talks selected based on extended abstracts being
solicited through this call for abstracts. A 20-minute time limit will be
enforced for each talk, and there will be plenty of time for audience
participation. A panel discussion session will be held after the technical
presentations. All speakers will be asked to submit full papers that will
be compiled into proceedings for distribution to attendees at the workshop.
We encourage the presentation of work-in-progress and research in early
stages. Abstracts will be selected based on their scientific merit and
anticipated interest to workshop attendees. Based on feedback from the past
workshops, quantitative analyses will be preferred in the selection of the
talks. However, it is understood that talks in new areas are likely to
contain less quantitative evaluation than those in more established areas.
Topics include, but are not restricted to, the following:
* Behavioral characterization of commercial workloads, including
transaction processing database, decision support database, ERP
database, e-commerce, web server, application server, email server,
and streaming media workloads.
* Evaluations of the availability and maintainability of architectures
for commercial workloads.
* Processor, cache, memory, I/O, or network subsystem design and
analysis using commercial workloads.
* System-level design and analysis of parallel or multiprocessor
servers, including blade servers.
* Performance analysis of multi-tiered system environments.
* Performance evaluation of existing architectures using commercial
workloads.
* Comparison of commercial workload behavior to scientific workload
behavior.
* Comparison of end-user workloads to industry standard benchmarks.
* Application and/or OS kernel algorithm improvements to enhance
performance.
* Design and evaluation of synthetic workloads representative of
commercial workloads.
* Simulation and modeling techniques for evaluating the performance of
commercial workloads.
Extended abstracts should be about 5 pages in length and include at least
preliminary results to support the hypothesis. Full papers may be
submitted in lieu of an extended abstract. Please send your extended
abstract or full paper by e-mail in PDF format by December 6, 2002, to
Kimberly Keeton at kkeeton@hpl.hp.com.
Acceptance notification will occur by e-mail to authors by December 20,
2002. All authors of accepted submissions should prepare a full paper, 10
to 12 pages in length, in PDF format by the January 21, 2003 deadline. All
accepted papers will be presented at the workshop and included in a bound
proceedings that will be distributed to workshop attendees. In addition,
accepted papers will be made available on this web site.
Organized by:
* Kimberly Keeton, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, kkeeton@hpl.hp.com
* Russell Clapp, rmcl@acm.org
* Ashwini Nanda, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, ashwini@watson.ibm.com
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* 2nd Annual Workshop on Novel Uses of System Area Networks Call for Papers
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* CALL FOR PAPERS *
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2nd Annual Workshop on Novel Uses of System Area Networks
(SAN-2)
February 9, 2003
Held in conjunction with HPCA-9
The 9th International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture
February 8-12, 2003
Anaheim, CA
HOME PAGE
http://www.csl.cornell.edu/SAN-2/
OVERVIEW
This one-day workshop will focus on innovative uses of emerging network
technology for system area networks (SANs) and intelligent system area
components (NICs, switches, disks, node controllers, etc.). As the price of
individual cluster components continues to fall, and their performance
steadily improves, clusters of PCs or workstations are becoming commonplace
in areas once reserved for supercomputers or massively parallel
architectures. The networks used in clusters have moved from traditional
Ethernet to system area networks, such as the Virtual Interface
Architecture, Myrinet, ServerNet, and the forthcoming InfiniBand and 3GIO
(PCI Express) networks. System area networks are characterized by high
bandwidth; low latency; a switched network environment; reliable transport
service implemented directly in hardware; no kernel intervention to send and
receive messages; and little or no copying on either the sending or
receiving side. SANs may be used for enterprise applications such as
databases, web servers, reservation systems, and parallel computing
environments. The SAN-2 workshop will include presentations of accepted
technical papers from both industry and
academia and a keynote address by a speaker yet to be determined.
TOPICS
This workshop will focus on non-traditional uses of commodity system area
networks, intelligent SAN components, and innovative system area network
architectures. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the
following:
Intelligent system area components (NICs, switches, disks, node
controllers, etc.)
SAN architecture enhancements
Clustering middleware that takes advantage of SAN hardware
Fault-tolerant SAN solutions
SAN-based shared memory architectures
Novel message-passing library implementations
Active I/O or Active Networking systems leveraging SAN architectures
Use of remote memory operations in SANs
Novel uses of SAN-based cluster architectures
Compilation support for SANs
Applications for clusters using SANs
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission Deadline: November 30, 2002
Notification to Authors: December 21, 2002
Final Papers Due: January 14, 2003
SUBMISSIONS
Authors should submit an extended abstract no longer than 5 pages for
consideration. Reviews of all papers will be blind. Accepted papers must be
no longer than 12 single-spaced pages (including figures, references, and
appendices) using 12pt font. Submit one electronic copy of the abstract in
PDF format via email to
SAN2WORKSHOP@csl.cornell.edu by November 30.
Notification of acceptance will be given by December 21, and camera-ready
papers will be due January 14. All accepted papers will be presented at the
workshop and included in a bound proceedings that will be distributed at the
workshop. Authors should use IEEE TOC format guidelines for final
submissions. In addition, accepted papers will be made available on this
site.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Ricardo Bianchini, Rutgers University
Angelos Bilas, University of Toronto
Mark Heinrich, Cornell University
Pankaj Mehra, Hewlett Packard
Li-Shiuan Peh, Princeton University
Evan Speight, Cornell University
Craig Stunkel, IBM Research
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* SIGMETRICS 2003 Call for Papers
Call for Papers
****** ACM SIGMETRICS 2003 ******
International Conference on
Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems
June 10-14, 2003
San Diego, California
http://www.crhc.uiuc.edu/sigm2003
(held in conjunction with FCRC'03 (http://www.acm.org/fcrc)
The SIGMETRICS conference solicits papers on the development and
application of state-of-the-art, broadly applicable analytic,
simulation, and measurement-based performance evaluation techniques.
We are interested in techniques whose aim is to evaluate a system's
dependability, security, correctness, or power consumption as well as
more traditional performance metrics. Of particular interest is work
that furthers the state of the art in performance evaluation methods,
or that creatively applies previously developed methods to gain
important insights into key design trade-offs in complex computer and
communication systems.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Performance-oriented design and evaluation studies of communication
networks, Internet servers, computer architectures, database
systems, operating systems, distributed systems, multimedia systems,
mobile and handheld systems, file and I/O systems, memory systems,
real-time systems, and dependable systems, including case studies
and performance-evaluation tools.
- Performance methodology techniques, algorithms, and tools for
analytic modeling, system measurement and monitoring, model
verification and validation, workload characterization, simulation,
statistical analysis, stochastic modeling including queues,
stochastic Petri nets, stochastic process algebras, experimental
design, reliability and availability analysis, power analysis,
performance optimizations, and hybrid models.
Submission Guidelines
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- Papers: On October 25, 2002, authors must submit the title,
abstract, and author list (with affiliations) for their intended
submission. Submissions of the full papers are due on November 1,
2002 and should not exceed 20 double-spaced pages, including figures
and tables. Papers must be submitted electronically in printable
postscript or PDF form. All submissions will be reviewed using a
double-blind review process. The identity of the authors and
referees will not be revealed to each other. To ensure blind
reviewing, authors' names and affiliations MUST NOT appear in the
paper; bibliographic references must be made in such as way as to
preserve author anonymity. See the web site for more information on
submission.
- Hot Topic Sessions: Proposals are solicited for a hot topic session,
in which a group of speakers will present and discuss their recent
results in an area. Send proposals to the program chairs,
identifying the organizer of the session, the session title, three
to five speakers, the titles of their talks, and a short abstract of
each talk.
- Tutorials: A series of tutorials will immediately precede the main
conference. Send proposals of no more than 1 or 2 pages (for
90-minute or 3-hour tutorials) to the tutorials chair. Include the
proposed title, brief description of material, intended audience,
assumed background of attendees, and the name, affiliation, contact
information (e-mail and phone), and brief biography of speaker(s).
Postscript or PDF is preferred.
Important Dates:
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Title, abstract, and author affiliations due by: October 25, 2002
Paper, tutorial, and hot topic proposal
submission deadline: November 1, 2002
(HARD deadline)
Notification of acceptance: January 24, 2003
Organization
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General Co-Chairs:
Satish Tripathi (UC Riverside) tripathi@engr.ucr.edu
Bill Cheng (TeleGIF) bill.cheng@telegif.org
Program Co-Chairs:
Jennifer Rexford (AT&T Labs-Research) jrex@research.att.com
William H. Sanders (U Illinois) whs@crhc.uiuc.edu
Tutorial Co-Chairs:
Steven Low (Caltech) slow@caltech.edu
John C.S. Lui (Chinese U. Hong Kong) cslui@cse.cuhk.edu.hk
Proceedings Chair:
Evgenia Smirni (College of William & Mary) esmirni@cs.wm.edu
Publicity Chair:
Dan Rubenstein (Columbia U.) danr@ee.columbia.edu
Technical Program Committee:
Vikram Adve (U Illinois)
Marco Ajmone-Marsan (Politecnico di Torino)
Gianfranco Balbo (U degli Studi di Torino)
Paul Barford (U Wisconsin-Madison)
Ernst Biersack (Institut Eurecom)
Gianfranco Ciardo (College of William & Mary)
E. G. Coffman, Jr. (Columbia U)
Edmundo de Souza e Silva (UFRJ)
Derek Eager (U Saskatchewan)
E. N. Elnozahy (IBM Research, Austin)
Lixin Gao (UMass-Amherst)
Ashish Goel (USC)
Leana Golubchik (USC)
Ramesh Govindan (ICSI and USC)
Mor Harchol-Balter (Carnegie Mellon)
Richard E. Harper (IBM Research)
Boudewijn R. Haverkort (RWTH-Aachen)
Kimberly Keeton (HP Labs)
Marwan M. Krunz (U Arizona)
Srisankar Kunniyur (U Pennsylvania)
Jim Kurose (UMass-Amherst)
Zhen Liu (IBM Research)
Robert Morris (MIT)
Richard R. Muntz (UCLA)
Philippe Nain (INRIA)
Venkata N. Padmanabhan (Microsoft Research)
Vivek Pai (Princeton)
Gerardo Rubino (IRISA/INRIA)
Srinivasan Seshan (Carnegie Mellon)
Ken Sevcik (U Toronto)
Evgenia Smirni (College of William & Mary)
Nina Taft (Sprint ATL)
Nitin Vaidya (U Illinois)
Mary K. Vernon (U Wisconsin-Madison)
C. Murray Woodside (Carleton U.)
Ellen W. Zegura (Georgia Tech)
Zhi-Li Zhang (U Minnesota)
For more and up to date information see the conference web site
at: http://www.crhc.uiuc.edu/sigm2003
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