[hpc-announce] 1st International Workshop on Exploiting Silicon Photonics for energy-efficient heterogeneous parallel architectures (SiPhotonics'2014)

Tue Aug 27 06:55:38 CDT 2013

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HiPEAC1st International Workshop on Exploiting Silicon Photonics for

energy-efficient heterogeneous parallel architectures (SiPhotonics'2014) 
_http://www.hipeac.net/conference/vienna/workshop/siphotonics/2014_

in Vienna, Austria, 21 January 2014

associated with the 9th HiPEAC conference on High Performance and 
Embedded Architecture and Compilers 
(_http://www.hipeac.net/conference/vienna_).

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*Goal of the Workshop:*

The main purpose of this workshop is to promote further research 
interests and activities on Silicon Photonics and related topics in the 
perspective of its adoption in future computer systems. In fact Silicon 
Photonics poses in itself crucial challenges and interesting design 
tradeoffs for being deployed in future computer systems effectively, 
also in integration with other technologies. Furthermore, the unique 
features of photonics (e.g. extreme low-latency, end-to-end 
transmission, high bandwidth density) have the potential to constitute a 
/discontinuity /element able to modify the expected /shape/ of future 
computer systems from the design point of view and also from the 
programmability and/or runtime management perspectives.

Summarizing, silicon photonics can bring innovations and benefits into 
current and foreseeable computing systems /directly/, due to their 
intrinsic features, but also /indirectly/ enabling the evolution towards 
architectures, runtime and resource management approaches that maximize 
the photonic raw technologicalopportunities and lead to more efficient 
overall designs, otherwise impossible.

This workshop aims to increase the synergy from a complete range of 
perspectives, from raw technology issues and solutions up to studies at 
the overall system level of modern multi-/many-core systems, both from 
academic and industrial researchers working in this area. We are 
interested in experimental, systems-related, and work-in-progress papers 
in all aspects of the Silicon Photonics technology at all levels of 
development.

*Topics of interest:*

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Integration of positive features of both electronic and photonic 
interconnection technology.

- Low-level technological improvements and implications (e.g. integrated 
lasers, modulation and detection technologies, microring resonators).

- Fabrication issues (e.g. precision) and new tools (e.g. design, place 
and route, ecc) to easy the topological exploration.

- Emerging challenges and solutions for on-chip interconnections, cache 
coherence protocols, runtime and OS scheduling, and programmability, for 
future homogeneous/heterogeneous energy-aware CMPs

- Simulation, validation and verification

- Photonics in the memory hierarchy and I/O of computing systems

- QoS management and performance analysis

- Programming languages and compilers for thermal-, energy-, and 
power-aware architectures

- Solving the requirements of multiple heterogeneous parallel applications.

- Interaction between photonic features and current computer design issues.

- Industrial practices and case studies

*Submission guidelines:*

Prospective authors should submit electronically a full paper in English 
in PDF format. Submitted papers must represent original unpublished 
research that is not currently under review for any other conference or 
journal.

All manuscripts will be reviewed and will be judged on correctness, 
originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, 
and interest and relevance to the workshop attendees.

They should be formatted according to double-column ACM format pages, 
including figures and references. Please use the following template when 
preparing your manuscript: 
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates,not exceeding 
6 pages.

Submissions can be made through the submission web site at

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=siphotonics2014

*Publication:*

Informal proceedings will be provided in an USB stick to all 
participants including all material relevant to the conference and the 
related events.

To confirm the publication, at least one author of each accepted paper 
is expected to register for the workshop and present the papers at the 
workshop itself.

After the conference, authors of selected papers will be invited to 
submit an extended version of their contribution for a special issue of 
the journal "Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience" from 
Wiley, scheduled to be published for June 2014.

*Important dates:*

Paper submission deadline: October 24, 2013

Notification of acceptance: November 30, 2013

Camera-ready paper due: December 13, 2013

Workshop: 21st Jan 2014

*Co-chairs:*

José M. García, University of Murcia, Spain.

Sandro Bartolini, University of Siena, Italy

*Program committee:*

KerenBergmanColumbia University

Giovanna Calo'Politecnico di Bari

José M.CeciliaCatholic University of Murcia

YawenChenOtago University

SylvainCollangeINRIA/IRISA

RicardoFernández-PascualUniversity of Murcia

PaoloGraniUniversity of Siena

TimothyJonesUniversity of Cambridge

WolfgangKarlKarlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

KostasKatrinisIBM

SébastienLe BeuxLyon Institute of Nanotechnology (INL)

OliverMattesKarlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

GokhanMemikNorthwestern University

LasseNatvigNorwegian University of Science and Technology

SudeepPasrichaColorado State University

LucaRaminiUniversity of Ferrara

LaurentScharesIBM TJ Watson

*Contacts:*

Prof. José M. García

Departamento de Ingeniería y Tecnología de Computadores

University of Murcia, Spain.

email: jmgarcia[at]ditec.um.es

Tel.: +34 868 884819Fax: +34 868 884151

Ing. Sandro Bartolini, PhD

Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione e Scienze Matematiche

University of Siena, Italy

E-mail: bartolini[at]dii.unisi.it

Tel: +39 0577 234850Fax: +39 0577 233609

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Prof. Jose Manuel Garcia Carrasco
Departamento de Ingenieria y Tecnologia de Computadores
Facultad de Informatica. Universidad de Murcia
Campus de Espinardo - 30080 Murcia (SPAIN)
Tel.: +34-868-884819    Fax: +34-868-884151
email: jmgarcia at ditec.um.es  |  jm.garcia at ieee.org
url: http://webs.um.es/jmgarcia

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