This is the August 2003 Digest of SIGARCH Messages (sigarch-aug03): * ACM Symposium on Applied Computing-SAC 2004, Special Track on Parallel and Distributed Systems http://www.cslab.ece.ntua.gr/sac04-pds Submitted by Nectarios Koziris <koziris@cslab.ece.ntua.gr> * 2004 ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers http://www.computingfrontiers.org Submitted by Steve Beaty <beaty@emess.mscd.edu> * HotSpot thermal-modeling release http://lava.cs.virginia.edu/HotSpot/ Submitted by Kevin Skadron <skadron@cs.virginia.edu> --Doug Burger SIGARCH Information Director infodir_SIGARCH@acm.org * Archive: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~lists/archive/sigarch-members/maillist.html * Web pages: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~arch/www/, http://www.acm.org/sigarch/ * To remove yourself from the SIGARCH mailing list: mail listserv@acm.org with message body: unsubscribe SIGARCH-MEMBERS ----------------------------------------------------------------- Doug Burger Office: 3.432 ACES Assistant Professor Phone: 512-471-9795 Department of Computer Sciences Assistant: 512-471-9442 University of Texas at Austin Fax: 512-232-1413 Taylor Hall 2.124 E-mail: dburger@cs.utexas.edu Austin, TX 78712-1188 USA www.cs.utexas.edu/users/dburger ----------------------------------------------------------------- * ACM Symposium on Applied Computing-SAC 2004, Special Track on Parallel and Distributed Systems ACM Symposium on Applied Computing-SAC 2004 Special Track on Parallel and Distributed Systems Nicosia, Cyprus March 14-17, 2004 http://www.cslab.ece.ntua.gr/sac04-pds CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------ A special track on Parallel and Distributed Systems will be held in SAC2004. This track aims to be a forum for scientists, engineers and practitioners in academia, industry and research institutes to share technical ideas, experiences and results and to present their latest findings in any aspects of Parallel and Distributed Computing. The Track will emphasize the design, architecture and software of parallel and distributed systems with their scientific and engineering applications. Authors are invited to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate current research in all areas of parallel and distributed systems. The track solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: * Parallel and Distributed Architectures * Parallel and Distributed Algorithms * Optimizing Compilers * Programming Languages and Tools for Parallel Computing Systems * Load Sharing and Balancing * Task Mapping and Job Scheduling * Resource Allocation and Management * Applications for Clusters and Grids - Grid Computing * Architecture and Operating system support for Parallel Systems * Supercomputing Applications * Scalable Servers * Internet and WWW-based Computing * Network-based and Cluster Computing Network Server Architectures * Reliability and Fault-Tolerance * Performance Analysis Original papers from the above-mentioned or other related areas will be considered. This includes three categories of submissions: 1) original and unpublished research; 2) reports of innovative computing applications in the arts, sciences, engineering, business, government, education and industry; and 3) reports of successful technology transfer to new problem domains. Each submitted paper will be fully refereed and undergo a blind review process by at least three referees. Accepted papers in all categories will be published in the ACM SAC'04 proceedings. Submit your paper electronically to http://www.cslab.ece.ntua.gr/sac04-pds in PDF or postscript (see the track web page for details). The author(s) name(s) and address(es) must not appear in any cover page or in the body of the paper, and self-reference should be in the third person. This is to facilitate blind review. Because the review process is blind, authors' names and affiliations should appear only on the electronic submission form. The final version (camera-ready) of the accepted papers should be submitted in PDF format so that they can be included in the proceedings as well as in the ACM Digital Library. For more information contact: sac04-pds@cslab.ece.ntua.gr Important Dates ------------------------ Paper Due: September 6, 2003 Author Notification: October 18, 2003 Camera-Ready Paper Due: November 8, 2003 Track Program Chairs -------------------------------- Robert van Engelen, Florida State University, USA Mario Furnari, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Italy Nectarios Koziris, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Kleanthis Psarris, The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * 2004 ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers CF '04 2004 ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers Ischia, Italy, 14-16 April 2004 Sponsored by ACM - SIGMICRO The increasing needs of present and future computation-intensive applications have stimulated research in new and innovative approaches to the design and implementation of high-performance computing systems. This challenging boundary between state of the art and innovation constitutes the computing frontiers, which needs to push forward and provide the computational support required for the advancement of all science domains and applications. This conference will focus on a wide spectrum of advanced technologies and radically new solutions and is designed to foster communication between the various scientific areas and disciplines involved. Authors are invited to submit papers on all areas of innovative computing systems which extend the current frontiers of computer science and engineering and that will provide advanced systems for current and future applications. Papers are sought on theory, methodologies, technologies, and implementations concerned with innovations in computing paradigms, computational models, architectural paradigms, computer architectures, development environments, compilers, operating environments, etc. Main topics include, but are not limited to, the following. - Pervasive and ubiquitous computing | - Autonomous intelligent computing - Embedded processing and networking | systems - Wearable computing | - Nanotechnologies for high-performance - Systems and networks on chip | computing - Grid computing | - Molecular computing - Parallel computing systems | - Computational neuroscience - Clustered computing systems and | - Neuromorphic computing server farms | - Evolutionary systems - High-performance processors | - Computing systems for bioinformatics - Application-specific computing | - Computing systems for knowledge systems | processing - High-performance parallel storage | - Computing systems for virtual and I/O systems | environments - High-performance networked storage | - Resilient and dependable computing systems | systems - Quantum computing | PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 15, 2003 Submission details and all information concerning the symposium can be found at the conference web site (http://www.computingfrontiers.org). Acceptance/rejection will be emailed by December 20, 2003. The final manuscript will due January 24, 2004. Submission implies that at least one author will register at the conference and present the paper. General Chair ------------- Stamatis Vassiliadis, NL Technical Program Chairs ------------------------ Jean-Luc Gaudiot, US Vincenzo Piuri, IT Program Committee ----------------- Nader Bagherzadeh, US | Charlie Catlett, US Toni Cortes, ES | Renzo Davoli, IT Kemal Ebcioglu, US | Paolo Faraboschi, ES Edil S.T. Fernandes, BR | David Fogel, US Guang R. Gao, US | Iliya Georgiev, US Michael E. Hasselmo, US | Lakhmi C. Jain, AU Simon Jones, UK | Fabrizio Lombardi, US Miroslaw Malek, DE | Cecilia Metra, IT Gabor Nemeth, HU | Yale Patt, US Alex Pentland, US | Emil Petriu, CA Martin B Plenio, UK | Kaushik Roy, US Grzegorz Rozenberg, NL | Norbert Streitz, DE Bogong Su, US | Earl E. Swartzlander, US John Taylor, UK | Alex Yakovlev, UK Special Sessions Chair ---------------------- Giacomo Sechi, IT Publication Chair ----------------- Monica Alderighi, IT Local Arrangements Chair ------------------------ Sergio D'Angelo, IT Web Site: http://www.computingfrontiers.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * HotSpot thermal-modeling release (http://lava.cs.virginia.edu/HotSpot/) With power density and hence cooling costs rising exponentially, processor packaging can no longer be designed for the worst case, and there is an urgent need for runtime techniques that can regulate operating temperature when the package's capacity is exceeded. Evaluating such techniques, however, requires a thermal model that is practical for architectural studies at the processor- and system-architecture granularities. HotSpot is an accurate and fast thermal model suitable for use in architectural studies. It automatically generates a dynamic compact model based on an equivalent circuit of thermal resistances and capacitances that correspond to blocks or structures of interest and to essential aspects of the thermal package. The model has been validated using finite-element simulation and is available for public use. HotSpot has a simple set of interfaces and hence can be integrated with most power-performance simulators like Wattch (but it has no specific dependencies on SimpleScalar/Wattch). HotSpot is also general enough that it should be easy to extend to a variety of systems and configurations. HotSpot is supported via an email list that is monitored by its developers. For download, subscription to the mailing list, and recent results and publications, see http://lava.cs.virginia.edu/HotSpot/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------