Call
for Papers for
The
Twelfth Workshop on Computer Architecture Evaluation using Commercial Workloads
(CAECW-12)
Immediately
preceding The 15th International Symposium on
High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-15)
To
be held in Raleigh, North Carolina
On
February 14th, 2009
The function of this workshop is
the discussion of 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, provide an
understanding of how commercial workloads exercise computer systems and help
establish methodologies for measuring, modeling and analyzing the execution time
characteristics of these workloads.
Also this year an emphasis will be placed on tools for analysis, as
recent advances in this area have enabled them to better handle large, complex
workloads.
Topics
of interest
Below
is the proposed list of topics for the workshop. Topics include, but are not
restricted to, the following:
·
Systems
architecture and design
o
Processor,
cache, memory, I/O, or network subsystem design and analysis using commercial
workloads
o
System-level
design and analysis of parallel or multiprocessor systems, including blade
servers and multicore client
systems.
o
Evaluation of
hardware support for virtualization using commercial
workloads
o
Benefits
of multi-core architectures (homogeneous or heterogeneous)
o
Energy-efficiency
of commercial workloads
o
Independent
validation of previously proposed work using commercial
workloads
·
Evaluation
techniques and methodologies
o
Tools for
analyzing and characterizing workload behavior
o
Validations and
comparisons of full-system simulators
o
Performance
evaluation (using hardware and/or software instrumentation) of existing
architectures using commercial workloads
o
Scalability
considerations for commercial workloads (e.g., multiprocessor scaling in a
single-server configuration vs. scalability in multi-server configurations vs.
scalability on consolidated servers using virtual
machines)
·
Traditional
and emerging commercial workloads of interest
o
Transaction
processing, decision support, ERP and streaming database
servers
o
Multi-tier
environments
o
Data
mining and search engines
o
Managed
runtime systems (e.g., Java virtual machines)
o
Storage
system workloads
o
Streaming
media workloads for both server and client systems.
o
XML-based
workloads
o
Consolidated
workloads in virtualized servers
·
Workload
analysis and characterization
o
Techniques for
comparing workload behavior (e.g., commercial workloads vs. scientific
workloads, industry standard benchmarks vs. end-user
workloads)
o
Design and
evaluation of synthetic workloads representative of commercial
workloads
o
Characterization
of common components of commercial workloads (e.g., packet processing, XML/HTML
processing, garbage collection, etc.)
Intended
audience
Submission
guidelines
Interested
authors are expected to submit a short paper (up to six pages) by the submission
deadline in pdf format to one of the workshop
organizers. Papers will be reviewed and accepted based on their novelty, their
relevance to the workshop and their technical merit. Authors of accepted papers
are expected to submit the final version of their short paper (no more than six
pages) by the final version deadline. Current plans call for a
bound proceedings to be distributed to the workshop attendees. In
addition, accepted papers will be made available on the workshop's web site.
Authors of accepted papers are also expected to present their work during a
25-minute talk.
Important
dates
Workshop
Organizers
Past
workshops