This is the May 2004 Digest of SIGARCH Messages (sigarch-may04): * SCOPES 2004 Call for Papers http://www.scopes2004.org Submitted by Henk Schepers <henk.schepers@philips.com> * HPCA-11 Call for Papers http://www.hpcaconf.org/hpca11 Submitted by Christos Kozyrakis <christos@ee.stanford.edu> * MICRO-37 Call for Papers http://www.microarch.org/micro37 Submitted by Glenn Reinman <reinman@CS.UCLA.EDU> * Computer Architecture Letters publishes new paper http://www.comp-arch-letters.org/2004paps.html 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: 512-232-7460 The University of Texas at Austin Fax: 512-232-1413 1 University Station, #C0500 E-mail: dburger@cs.utexas.edu Austin, TX 78712-1188 USA www.cs.utexas.edu/users/dburger ----------------------------------------------------------------- * SCOPES 2004 Call for Papers http://www.scopes2004.org Submitted by Henk Schepers <henk.schepers@philips.com> ********************************************************************** SCOPES 2004 8th International Workshop on Software and Compilers for Embedded Systems September 2 - 3, 2004 NH Amsterdam Centre hotel, Amsterdam http://www.scopes2004.org ********************************************************************** The scope of the workshop is software for embedded systems. The emphasis is on code generation techniques (compilers) for embedded processors which consider their typical characteristics, for instance heterogeneous register files, VLIW parallelism and special architectural features for signal processing or microcontroller applications. Topics of highest interest include: - code generation for embedded processors - compilers for reconfigurable architectures - retargetable compilation techniques for fast design space exploration - compilation for hardware/software co-design - application specific programmable core/software development tools co-design - profiling and analysis techniques for embedded software - optimizations for embedded Java - specification and validation techniques for embedded software - run-time support and real-time operating systems - software synthesis - exploitation of memory hierarchies - optimization for low-power architectures - design of embedded software SCOPES 2004 solicits in particular papers on compilation and software design for heterogeneous single chip multi-core processors, including the partitioning and debugging of the software for such processors. The plan is to have one day of the workshop devoted to compilers for embedded processors and one day on general issues related to embedded software and embedded processor architectures. In addition, there will be a keynote presentation by a well-known speaker. A key goal of the workshop is to provide an interactive atmosphere. Questions are welcomed during all presentations. There will be sessions to discuss specific topics. The workshop is open to all interested participants active in the field. Submitting Papers Papers should present original, new research results not published or submitted for publication in other forums. Papers should not exceed 15 pages (LNCS format) in postscript, PDF or RTF format. Papers should be submitted using the submission page, which will be opened on March 15th. Important Dates Abstracts due: April 8th, 2004. Strict paper submission deadline: April 15th, 2004. Notification of acceptance: May 24th. The deadline for the camera-ready final version is June 21st, 2004. General chairs - Marco Roodzant, ACE Associated Compiler Experts - Henk Schepers, Philips Research Local organisation - Marianne Dalmolen, ACE Associated Compiler Experts Program Committee - Uwe Assmann, Linköpings Universitet - Lex Augusteijn, Silicon Hive - Shuvra Bhattacharyya, University of Maryland - Albert Cohen, INRIA - Alex Dean, North Carolina State University - Nikil Dutt, University of California at Irvine - Antonio González, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya & Intel Labs - David Gregg, Trinity College Dublin - Rajiv Gupta, University of Arizona - Seongsoo Hong, Seoul National University - Nigel Horspool, Victoria University - Masaharu Imai, Osaka University - Ahmed Jerraya, IMAG - Daniel Kästner, AbsInt - Andreas Krall, Technische Universität Wien - Rainer Leupers, RWTH Aachen - Annie Liu, SUNY Stony Brook - Peter Marwedel, Universität Dortmund - Tatsuo Nakajima, Waseda University - Alex Nicolau, University of California at Irvine - Yunheung Paek, Seoul National University - Santosh Pande, Georgia Institute of Technology - Robert Pasko, IMEC - Sreeranga Rajan, Fujitsu - Miguel Santana, STMicroelectronics - Hans van Someren, ACE Associated Compiler Experts - Hiroyuki Tomiyama, Nagoya University - Bernard Wess, Technische Universität Wien - David Whalley, Florida State University ************************************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * HPCA-11 Call for Papers http://www.hpcaconf.org/hpca11 Submitted by Christos Kozyrakis <christos@ee.stanford.edu> HPCA-11 Call for Papers 11th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture Palace Hotel, San Francisco, February 12-16, 2005 http://www.hpcaconf.org/hpca11 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 papers on all aspects of high-performance computer architecture. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Processor architectures * Cache and memory systems * Parallel computer architectures * Impact of technology on architecture * Power-efficient architectures and techniques * High-availability architectures * High-performance I/O systems * Embedded and reconfigurable architectures * Interconnect and network interface architectures * Network processor architectures * Innovative hardware/software trade-offs * Impact of compilers on architecture * Performance evaluation of real machines Authors should submit an abstract before Monday, July 12, 2004, 9pm PST. They should submit the full version of the paper before Monday, July 19, 2004, 9pm PST. No extensions will be granted. The full version should be a PDF file that does not exceed 6,000 words according to the instructions in http://www.hpcaconf.org/hpca11. Papers that exceed the length limit or that cannot be viewed using Adobe Acrobat Reader (version 3.0 or higher) may not be reviewed. Papers should be submitted for blind review. Please indicate whether the paper is a student paper for best student paper nominations. Papers will be evaluated based on their novelty, fundamental insights, and potential for long-term contribution. New-idea papers are encouraged. Submission issues should be directed to the program chair at torrellas@cs.uiuc.edu. Workshop and tutorial submissions should be directed to the workshop and tutorial chair at jared.w.stark@intel.com. Important dates * Abstract submission: July 12, 2004, 9pm PST (firm deadline) * Paper submission: July 19, 2004, 9pm PST (firm deadline) * Workshop and tutorial proposals due: August 13, 2004 * Notification of paper outcome: September 25, 2004 Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society TC on Computer Architecture. General Chair Justin Rattner, Intel Program Chair Josep Torrellas, Univ. of Illinois Program Committee Sarita Adve, Univ. of Illinois David Albonesi, Univ. of Rochester Krste Asanovic, MIT Ricardo Bianchini, Rutgers Univ. Angelos Bilas, Univ. of Crete Pradip Bose, IBM Brad Calder, Univ. of California, San Diego John Carter, Univ. of Utah Alok Choudhary, Northwestern Univ. Tom Conte, North Carolina State Univ. Jose Duato, Univ. Politecnica Valencia Michel Dubois, Univ. of Southern California Kemal Ebcioglu, IBM Kourosh Gharachorloo, Google Antonio Gonzalez, Univ. Politecnica Catalunya Rajiv Gupta, Univ. of Arizona Michael Huang, Univ. of Rochester Mary Jane Irwin, Pennsylvania State Univ. Lizy John, Univ. of Texas David Kaeli, Northeastern Univ. Steve Keckler, Univ. of Texas Diana Marculescu, Carnegie Mellon Univ. Shubu Mukherjee, Intel Mark Oskin, Univ. of Washington Timothy Pinkston, Univ. of Southern California Steve Scott, Cray Andre Seznec, IRISA/INRIA John Shen, Intel Anand Sivasubramaniam, Penn. State Univ. Kevin Skadron, Univ. of Virginia Yan Solihin, North Carolina State Univ. James Smith, Univ. of Wisconsin Mateo Valero, Univ. Politecnica Catalunya T. N. Vijaykumar, Purdue Univ. Yuanyuan Zhou, Univ. of Illinois Industry Liaison Chairs Konrad Lai, Intel Sanjay Patel, Univ. of Illinois Local Arrangements Chair Murali Annavaram, Intel Workshop and Tutorial Chair Jared Stark, Intel Publicity and Publications Chair Christos Kozyrakis, Stanford Univ. Finance and Registration Chair Pradeep Dubey, Intel Web Chair Wei Liu, Univ. of Illinois Steering Committee Dharma Agrawal, Univ. of Cincinnati Laxmi Bhuyan, Univ. of California, Riverside Jose Duato, Univ. Politecnica Valencia Jean-Luc Gaudiot, Univ. of California, Irvine Yale Patt, Univ. of Texas Francisco Tirado, Univ. Complutense Madrid Emilio L. Zapata, Univ. of Malaga, Spain ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * MICRO-37 Call for Papers http://www.microarch.org/micro37 Submitted by Glenn Reinman <reinman@CS.UCLA.EDU> --------------------------------------------------------------------- MICRO-37 Call for Papers THE 37th ANNUAL IEEE/ACM INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON MICROARCHITECTURE Portland, OR, December 6-8th, 2004 http://www.microarch.org/micro37 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract & Full Paper Submission Deadline: May 28th, 2004 Papers are solicited for the 37th Annual International Symposium on Microarchitecture. Papers are being sought on all aspects of computer architecture, including (but not limited to) the following: * Microarchitecture and compilation techniques for instruction-level, thread-level, and memory-level parallelism * Speculation on control flow, data flow, and synchronization * Hardware/software based runtime/link-time optimizations * Translation, emulation, and optimization of object code * Workload analysis and phase detection for microarchitectures * Multi-thread, multi-cluster, multi-core processors and systems * Application-specific processors and integrated coprocessors * Processors for media, data-mining, and packet processing * Power, performance and implementation efficient designs * Memory system optimizations: latency, bandwidth, prefetching * Microarchitecture modeling and simulation methodology * Measurement and analysis of real microarchitectures * Microarchitecture support for dependability and security There is an automatic 1-week extension (June 4th, 2004) for submitting the full paper, but no extension on abstract submission. Please submit, using our website, one electronic copy of the paper in PDF format, not to exceed 22 double-spaced single-column pages and 5000 words. Author notification will be August 16th, 2004. The 37th International Symposium on Microarchitecture will be held at the Doubletree Hotel in Portland, Oregon. MICRO is the premier forum for presenting, discussing and debating new and innovative microarchitecture ideas and techniques for advanced computing and communication systems. The goal of this symposium is to bring together researchers in fields related to processor architecture, compilers, and systems, for technical exchange on traditional MICRO topics as well as new emerging research areas. Historically, the MICRO community has enjoyed having close interaction between academic researchers and industrial designers; we aim to continue and emphasize this tradition at MICRO-37. Please refer to http://www.microarch.org/micro37 for the complete call for papers and other details about the symposium. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Computer Architecture Letters publishes new paper Computer Architecture Letters announces our most recent paper, which is publicly available at http://www.comp-arch-letters.org/2004paps.html. We continue to seek new submissions and remain committed to fast and accurate review. Our mean time to decision remains one month, with an acceptance rate of approximately 21%. For more information on submission, please see http://www.comp-arch-letters.org A. Singh, W. J. Dally, B. Towles, A. K. Gupta. "Globally Adaptive Load-Balanced Routing on Tori." Volume 3, Mar. 2004. Abstract: We introduce a new method of adaptive routing on k-ary n-cubes, Globally Adaptive Load-Balance (GAL). GAL makes global routing decisions using global information. In contrast, most previous adaptive routing algorithms make local routing decisions using local information (typically channel queue depth). GAL senses global congestion using segmented injection queues to decide the directions to route in each dimension. It further load balances the network by routing in the selected directions adaptively. Using global information, GAL achieves the performance (latency and throughput) of minimal adaptive routing on benign traffic patterns and performs as well as the best obliviously load-balanced routing algorithm (GOAL) on adversarial traffic.