This is the December 2003 Digest of SIGARCH Messages (sigarch-dec03): * ASPLOS-XI Call for Papers and Call for Tutorial/Workshop Proposals http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/asplos2004 Submitted by Shubu Mukherjee <shubu.mukherjee@intel.com> * The 10th IEEE Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems Call for Papers http://www.cercs.gatech.edu/ftdcs2004 Submitted by Brian Cooper <cooperb@cc.gatech.edu> * Ninth Asia-Pacific Computer Systems Architecture Conference Call for Papers http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~acsac04 Submitted by Jingling Xue <jxue@cse.unsw.edu.au> --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: 512-232-7460 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- * ASPLOS-XI Call for Papers and Call for Tutorial/Workshop Proposals ASPLOS-XI Call for Papers Eleventh International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems Park Plaza, Boston, Massachusetts, October 9 through 13, 2004 -------------------------------------------------------------------------= ----- IMPORTANT DEADLINES Abstract Deadline: Friday, Feb. 27, 2004 (*) Full Paper Deadline: Friday, March 5, 2004 (*) Tutorials Submission Deadline: Friday, April 16, 2004 Notification of Acceptance: Saturday, May 22, 2004 Tutorial Notification: Friday, June 4, 2004 Final Paper Submission: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 (*) Deadlines are firm at 18:00 PST. SCOPE ASPLOS is a multi-disciplinary conference that seeks cross-fertilizing research in areas of hardware, architecture, compilers, operating systems, networking, and applications. It has captured some of the major computer systems innovations of the past 15 years (e.g., RISC and VLIW processors, small and large-scale multiprocessors, clusters and networks-of-workstations, optimizing compilers, RAID, and = network-storage system designs). Today multi-disciplinary research is becoming even = more important, as boundaries between hardware/software and local/network = computing blur, as the form and capabilities of computing devices becomes ever = more varied, and as the user-base and applications expand exponentially. Like = its predecessors, the eleventh ASPLOS conference will focus on = ground-breaking multi-disciplinary research. In addition, the program committee = welcomes research papers on a wide range of non-traditional topics that emphasize the multi-disciplinary aspects of their work. As ASPLOS expands its = scope, we encourage questions to the Program Chair regarding suitability of a = topic. Full papers are solicited on, but not limited to, these topics: + Interaction of operating systems, compilers, programming = languages, and architectures + Hardware/software issues for new devices, from sensor networks to wireless PDAs to wall-sized displays + Hardware/software issues for embedded systems + Hardware/software platform issues focusing on Internet services + Hardware/software platforms for delivering graphics and multimedia = + Embedding computation and storage (e.g., caches) within the = network + Case studies of hardware/software design in novel experimental systems + Studies of Internet applications and services with implications for systems + Performance evaluation of experimental systems + Effect of future VLSI technology and emerging applications on architectures, operating systems, or compilers The program committee and designated reviewers will read all = submissions, and will evaluate them based on scientific merit, innovation, relevance, and presentation. ``New-idea'' papers are encouraged; the program = committee recognizes that such papers may contain a significantly less thorough evaluation than papers in more established areas. The committee will also give special consideration to controversial papers that stimulate interesting debate during the committee meeting. Accepted papers will be published in a conference proceedings that will be distributed at the conference and published as an issue of the ACM SIGARCH, SIGOPS and = SIGPLAN newsletters. Submitted papers must not be simultaneously under review = for any other conference or journal, and authors should point out any = substantial overlap with their previously published or currently submitted work. Please check the following web site for up-to-date information: http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/asplos2004 -------------------------------------------------------------------------= ------ GENERAL CHAIR Shubu Mukherjee, Intel PROGRAM CHAIR Kathryn S. McKinley, Univ. of Texas STEERING COMMITTEE Alan Berenbaum, Agere Systems Joel Emer, Intel Evelyn Duesterwald, IBM Kourosh Gharachorloo, Google Larry Peterson, Princeton Univ. Larry Rudolph, MIT David Wood, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison PROGRAM COMMITTEE Anant Agarwal, MIT Todd Austin, Univ. of Michigan Hari Balakrishnan, MIT Stephen M. Blackburn, Australian National Univ. Doug Burger, Univ. of Texas at Austin Brad Calder, Univ. of California, San Diego John Carter, Univ. of Utah Elmootazbellah Elnozahy, IBM Austin Research Greg Ganger, Carnegie Mellon Univ. Monica Lam, Stanford Univ. Hank Levy, Univerisity of Washington, Seattle Margaret Martonosi, Princeton Univ. Todd Mowry, Carnegie Mellon Univ. Shubu Mukherjee, Intel Mary Lou Soffa, Univ. of Pittsburgh Gurindar S. Sohi, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison Olivier Temam, Universit=E9 Paris Sud Chandu Thekkath, Microsoft Research WORKSHOPS/TUTORIALS CHAIR Dirk Grunwald, Univ. of Colorado at Boulder FINANCE CHAIR Steve Reinhardt, Univ. of Michigan REGISTRATION CHAIR Dave Kaeli, Northeastern Univ. LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS Nancy Cross, HP PUBLICATIONS CHAIR Mithuna Thottethodi, Purdue Univ. WILD/CRAZY IDEAS SESSION CHAIR Steve Keckler, Univ. of Texas BANQUET ARRANGEMENTS Lisa Wu, Intel PUBLICITY CHAIR Andreas Moshovos, Univ. of Toronto -------------------------------------------------------------------------= ----- ASPLOS-XI Call for Tutorial/Workshop Proposals Eleventh International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems Park Plaza, Boston, Massachusetts, October 9 through 13, 2004 -------------------------------------------------------------------------= ----- Several workshops and tutorials are planned to be offered in conjunction with ASPLOS-XI, immediately before the conference proper. Organizers are invited to submit proposals on all aspects of high-performance computer architecture and its interaction with operating systems and programming languages to the Workshops Chair Dirk Grunwald = (grunwald@cs.colorado.edu) by April 16. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the ones listed in the Call for Papers. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- FTDCS 2004 The 10th IEEE Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society, Technical Committee on Distributed Processing May 26-28, 2004 Suzhou, China Call for Papers The International Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems (FTDCS 2004) will be held in Suzhou, China, May 26-28, 2004. The workshop is sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing. The workshop will provide a forum for researchers and practitioners in distributed computing systems around the world to present their results, and exchange ideas and experience. In contrast to large international conferences in this area, this workshop will place emphasis on more in-depth discussions and project future trends. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - Real-time, Pervasive, and Embedded Systems - Security and Trust in Distributed Systems - Self-Configurable, Self-repairing, and Self-Evolving Systems - Highly Available Distributed Systems - Web Services and Service-Oriented Architecture - Grid Computing - Peer-to-Peer Systems - Large-Scale Group Communication, Coordination and Cooperation - Wireless Communication and Networks - Performance Modeling Large-Scale Distributed Systems - Distributed Multimedia Systems - Novel Distributed Applications Workshop Location: Suzhou, China Workshop Date: May 26-28, 2004 PAPER SUBMISSION The workshop seeks submissions on any of the above topics with particular emphasis on revolutionary rather than incremental approaches. Manuscripts should be about 3000 words (minimum 10pt type), roughly 8 double-spaced pages excluding Tables and Figures. All submissions will be handled electronically and must be in PDF or PostScript format. Details will be posted on the workshop web page (http://www.cercs.gatech.edu/ftdcs2004). Submissions will be reviewed by the members of the program committee with additional help from selected peers. IMPORTANT DEADLINES Paper Submission December 1, 2003 Author Notification January 15, 2004 Final Manuscript Due February 16, 2004 Steering Committee Chair: Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA General Chair: Baowen Xu, Southeast University, China Program Co-Chairs: Umakishore Ramachandran, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Chuang Lin, Tsinghua University, China Publicity Chair: Brian Cooper, Georgia Institute of Technology Program Committee: Yaw-Chung Chen, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan Randy Chow, University of Florida, USA Geoff Coulson, Lancaster University, UK Roger Haskin, IBM Almaden Research, USA Liviu Iftode, Rutgers University, USA Suresh Jagannathan, Purdue University, USA Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Joerg Kaiser, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany Yousef Khalidi, Microsoft Corp., USA Raj Kumar, HP Labs, Palo Alto, CA, USA Frances Lau, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Joonwon Lee, KAIST University, S. Korea Xiaoming Li, Peking University, China Jin Lu, Naking University, China, Dianfu Ma, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China, Phil McKinley, Michigan State University, USA Gilles Mueller, École des Mines de Nantes, France Calton Pu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Andre Schiper, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland Tao Yang, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Jin-Yuan You, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Please direct questions regarding the workshop to either of the program co-chairs (rama@cc.gatech.edu, chlin@tsinghua.edu.cn), or the Steering Committee chair (yau@asu.edu) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Ninth Asia-Pacific Computer Systems Architecture Conference Call for Papers Ninth Asia-Pacific Computer Systems Architecture Conference (ACSAC'2004) http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~acsac04 Beijing, China September 7 - 9, 2004 (Submission deadline: February 29, 2004) Sponsored by National Natural Science Foundation of China, NICTA ICT Australia, and School of CSE at UNSW and in cooperation with IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Architecture (TCCA) (pending) and Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP) (pending). The Ninth Asia-Pacific Computer Systems Architecture Conference (ACSAC'2004) will be held in Beijing, China, during September 7 - 9, 2004. Authors are invited to submit full papers on all aspects of computer systems architecture, including (but not limited to) the following: * Processor architectures and innovative microarchitectures * Parallel computer architectures and computation models * Reconfigurable and embedded architectures * Compiler/OS/hardware support for efficient memory systems * Hardware support for OS and compilers * Compiler techniques and tools to support instruction-level parallelism (ILP) and thread-level parallelism (TLP) * Architectural and compiler support for speculative processors * Power-efficient architectures * Real-time architectures * High-performance I/O architectures * Application-specific systems * Novel architectures for emerging technologies and applications * Impact of VLSI scaling techniques * High-availability architectures * Interconnection networks and network interfaces * Innovative hardware/software trade-offs * Compilers and tools for parallel computer systems * Simulation and performance evaluation * Benchmarking and measurement of real systems IMPORTANT DATES: ---------------- Submissions of Abstracts: February 22, 2004 (11:00PM AEDT) Submissions of Full Papers: February 29, 2004 (11:00PM AEDT) Author Notification: May 2, 2004 Camera-Ready Papers: May 30, 2004 Registration of One Author: July 15, 2004 GENERAL CHAIR: -------------- Wenmin Zheng Department of Computer Science and Technology Tsinghua University Beijing, China Tel: +86 10 6278 3505-3 Fax: +86 10 6277 1138 E-mail: zwm-dcs@tsinghua.edu.cn PROGRAM CHAIRS: --------------- Pen-Chung Yew Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of Minnesota at Twin Cities 200 Union Street, SE Minneapolis, MN 55455-0159, USA Tel: 612 625-0726/625-7387 Fax: 612 625-0572 Email: yew@cs.uwn.edu Jingling Xue School of Computer Science and Engineering University of New South Wales, Australia Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia E-mail: jxue@cse.unsw.edu.au Tel: +61 2 9385 4889 Fax: +61 2 9385 5995 Email: jxue@cse.unsw.edu.au PROGRAM COMMITTEE: ------------------ - Lars Bengtsson (Chalmers University, Sweden) - Sangyeun Cho (Samsung Electronics, Co., Korea) - Lynn Choi (Korea University, Korea) - Rudolf Eigenmann (Purdue University, USA) - Jean-Luc Gaudiot (University of California, Irvine, USA) - Antonio Gonzalez (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya & Intel Labs, Spain) - Gernot Heiser (NICTA ICT Australia, Australia) - Chris Jesshope (University of Hull, UK) - Angkul Kongmunvattana (University of Nevada, Reno, USA) - Feipei Lai (National Taiwan University) - Zhiyong Liu (National Natural Science Foundation of China, China) - Guei-Yuan Lueh (Intel, USA) - John Morris (Chung-Ang University, Korea/University of Auckland, New Zealand) - Tadao Nakamura (Tohoku University, Japan) - Yukihiro Nakamura (Kyoto University, Japan) - Amos Omondi (Flinders University, Australia) - Lalit M. Patnaik (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India) - Jih-Kwon Peir (University of Florida, USA) - Ronald Pose (Monash University, Australia) - Depei Qian (Xian Jiaotong University, China) - Stanislav G. Sedukhin (University of Aizu, Japan) - Naofumi Takagi (Nagoya University, Japan) - Zhimin Tang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) - Rajeev Thakur (Argonne National Laboratory, USA) - Theo Ungerer (University of Augsburg, Germany) - Winfried W. Wilcke (IBM Research, USA) - Weng Fai Wong (National University of Singapore, Singapore) - Chengyong Wu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) - Ming Xu (National University of Defense Technology, China) - Yuanyuan Yang (State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA) - Rumi Zahir (Intel, USA) - Chuanqi Zhu (Fudan University, China) PROCEEDINGS AND SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: -------------------------------------- Accepted and presented papers are planned to be published in the Springer-Verlag "Lecture Notes in Computer Science" series. Prospective authors are invited to submit a 100 - 200 word abstract (including between four and six keywords and the e-mail address of the corresponding author) and a full paper in *English* (not to exceed 6000 words) presenting original and unpublished research results and experience. Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. It is understood that papers in new areas are likely to contain less quantitative evaluations and comparisons than those in more established areas. Submissions will be carried out electronically via the Web via a link found at the conference web page http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~acsac04/. Papers must be submitted in PDF (preferably) or Postscript that is interpretable by Ghostscript. Excessively long papers will be rejected immediately by the Program Chairs. Submissions imply the willingness of at least one author to register, attend the conference, and present the paper. There will be two best student paper awards to recognise distinguished student research. At the conference's submission page, please tick whether your paper is a student paper. The criteria for student papers will be available shortly at the conference web site.