[hpc-announce] CFP: SoC workshop with HPCA 2014

[Iyer, Ravishankar]

Dear researchers,



We are organizing the 5th Workshop on SoCs, Heterogeneous Architectures and Workloads(SHAW-5) along with HPCA in Orlando, Florida, USA on Feb 16, 2014.



Please find the Call for Papers below. Please consider submitting relevant work to the workshop.

The submission deadline is just a month away -- December 16th 2013.



For more information on the workshop, visit http://hpca20.ece.ufl.edu/shaw5.html

For more information on HPCA 2014, visit http://hpca20.ece.ufl.edu/



Regards,

Ramesh, Ravi, Raj & Renato



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    5th Workshop on SoCs, Heterogeneous Architectures and Workloads (SHAW-5)



                     Feb 16th 2014, Orlando, Florida, USA

                       Held in conjunction with HPCA-20

                      http://hpca20.ece.ufl.edu/shaw5.html

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Organizing Chairs:

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Ramesh Illikkal   Intel Labs            ramesh.g.illikkal at intel.com<mailto:ramesh.g.illikkal at intel.com>

Ravi Iyer         Intel Labs            ravishankar.iyer at intel.com<mailto:ravishankar.iyer at intel.com>

Raj Yavatkar      Intel                 raj.yavatkar at intel.com<mailto:raj.yavatkar at intel.com>

Renato Figueiredo University of Florida renato at acis.ufl.edu<mailto:renato at acis.ufl.edu>



Overview

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Computing platforms are getting smaller (e.g. handheld devices, wearables), richer (e.g.

image and language understanding) and broader (i.e. reaching the masses via Internet of

Things). This trend is made possible by System-on-Chip (SoC) and Heterogeneous Architectures

that combine wider power/performance scaling, combinations of high performance and ultra-low

power general-purpose cores along with a wide spectrum of domain-specific accelerators or

Intellectual Property (IP) blocks. With the recent introduction of general-purpose compute

cores such as Intel(r) Core(tm) i7 and Atom(tm) processors and the recently announced Quark processor,

these heterogeneous platforms have the potential to run a much broader range of applications

than ever before. The goal of this workshop is to bring together academic researchers and

industry practitioners to discuss future SoC and Heterogeneous architectures, Accelerators

and Workloads.



The research challenges in SoC/Heterogeneous platforms are multi-fold:

(a) providing rich functionality and wider power/performance range

(b) attempting to cover a broad range of applications that can be migrated from mainstream

platforms to SoCs and Heterogeneous devices,

(c) enabling a modular architecture and design environment that improves time-to-market and

(d) providing a rich software programming environment that eases the challenge of developing

applications on a heterogeneous architecture consisting of general-purpose cores as well as

specialized accelerators.



Below is the proposed list of topics for the workshop. Topics include, but are not

restricted to, the following:



Novel SoC/Hetero Architectures

- Architectures for wearable and IOT devices

- Heterogeneity in Cores, Frequency, Cache, Memory

- Different levels of Heterogeneity

- Power, Performance, Energy optimizations

- SoCs, CPU/GPU, CPU/GPGPU architectures

- End-to-end heterogeneity (device-cloud offloads)

- Ultra-Low Power Core Micro-architectures

- Fabrics / Network-on-chip, Cache/Memory Hierarchies

- HW Support for Heterogeneity, Programmability, Modularity

- Simulation / Emulation Methodologies

Emerging Workloads and Embedded Devices

- New Workloads (Wearable/IOT usages)

- Speech/Image recognition and understanding, Cognitive computing

- Personal Assistants, Predictive/Prescriptive Analytics

- Machine Learning Algorithms & Applications

- Graph processing, Deep Neural Networks

- Emerging embedded applications, devices and novel uses cases

- Workload Analysis for power/performance/energy optimization and acceleration

- Workload Partitioning between Heterogeneous Cores and Accelerators

- Performance Monitoring and Simulation

- Case Studies of SoC/Heterogeneous applications

Novel Accelerator Designs

- Specialized Accelerator Architectures and Designs

- Machine Learning, Neural Network and Graph Processing accelerators

- Domain-Specific Programmable/Configurable Accelerators

- Accelerator Interfaces for Programmability

- Development Environments for Accelerator Design



Submission Guidelines:

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Interested authors are encouraged to submit extended abstracts (1 - 2 pages) or short

papers (6 pages) by email to the organizing chairs. The deadline for submission is

December 16th, 2013. Final (short) papers will be due on Jan 31st, 2014 and will be

printed in a workshop proceedings made available to the workshop attendees.



Important Dates:

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Abstract/Paper submission:    December 16 2013 23:59 PST

Author Notification:          January  10 2014

Final Paper Submission:       January  31 2014

Workshop:                     February 16 2014

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