[hpc-announce] CFP for FastPath 2015: Fourth International Workshop on Performance Analysis of Workload Optimized Systems

[Parijat Dube]

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CALL FOR PAPERS
FastPath 2015: Fourth International Workshop on Performance Analysis of 
              Workload Optimized Systems
To be held with ISPASS 2015 Conference, Philadelphia, PA, March 29, 2015
http://www.ispass.org/ispass2015/fastpath2015
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The goal of FastPath is to bring together researchers and practitioners 
involved in 
cross-stack hardware/software performance analysis, modeling, and 
evaluation of 
workload optimized systems. With microprocessor clock speeds being held 
constant, 
optimizing systems around specific workloads is an increasingly attractive 
means to 
improve performance. More precisely, workload optimized systems have 
hardware and/or 
software specifically designed to run well for a particular application or 

application class. The types and components of workload optimized systems 
vary, but 
a partial list includes traditional CPUs assisted with accelerators 
(ASICs, FPGAs, GPUs), 
memory accelerators, I/O accelerators, hybrid systems, converged 
infrastructure, 
and IT appliances. The importance of workload optimized systems is seen in 
their 
ubiquitous deployment in diverse systems from cellphones to tablets to 
routers to game 
machines to Top500 supercomputers. Prominent commercial examples of 
workload optimized 
systems include IBM DataPower, IBM Purescale Application System, IBM 
Watson, Oracle Exadata, 
and HP Moonshot Servers. Exploiting CPU savings and speed-ups offered by 
workload optimized 
systems for application level performance improvement poses several cross 
stack hardware 
and software challenges.  These include developing alternate programming 
models to exploit 
massive parallelism offered by accelerators, designing low-latency, 
high-throughput H/W-S/W 
interfaces, developing techniques to efficiently map processing logic on 
hardware, and 
cross system stack performance optimization and tuning.  Emerging 
infrastructure supporting 
big data analytics, cognitive computing, large-scale machine learning, 
mobile computing, 
and internet-of-things, further exemplify workload optimized design at 
large. 


TOPICS

FastPath seeks to facilitate the exchange of ideas on performance analysis
and evaluation of workload optimized systems and seeks papers on a wide
range of topics including, but not limited to:

Workload characterization and profiling 
Industrial experiences
GPUs, FPGAs, ASIC accelerators
Memory, I/O, Storage, Network accelerators 
Hardware/Software co-design  
Workload optimized servers 
Hybrid/Heterogeneous systems 
Measurements and Experimentation 
Analytical techniques
Performance modeling and prediction
Performance tooling and optimization
Programming models for workload optimized systems
Runtime management systems
Workload scheduling and orchestration 
Workload optimized clusters in Cloud 
Big Data analytics systems
Large-scale machine learning systems
Intelligent/Cognitive systems
Mobile computing systems 
Converged/integrated infrastructure 
Workload optimized systems from specific domains, e.g., financial, 
biological, education, commerce, healthcare.

SUBMISSIONS

The authors should submit PDF of a 2-4 page extended abstract by the 
submission deadline at 
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fastpath2015
The submission should follow standard format (2-column, 10 to 12-point 
type, single spaced, 1-inch margins). 
Abstracts should provide sufficient detail about the work and its 
technical contributions. 

Authors of selected abstracts will be invited to present their work at the 
workshop.  Accepted abstracts will 
be made available through the workshop website and hard copies will be 
provided at the workshop to the attendees. 
There are no copyright issues with FastPath, and thus authors retain the 
copyright of their work with complete 
freedom to submit their work elsewhere.


KEY DATES 

Submission:             March      1, 2015
Author Notification:    March     10, 2015
Workshop                March     29, 2015    (Hyatt Regency Hotel in 
Philadelphia,PA)


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

General Chair:     Erik Altman (IBM)
Program Chairs:    Vijay Janapa Reddi (U-Texas, Austin)
                   Parijat Dube (IBM)
Web Chair:         Augusto Vega (IBM)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

David Brooks           Harvard University
Trey Cain              Qualcomm Research 
Mike Ferdman           Stony Brook University
Sudhanva Gurumurthi    AMD, University of Virginia 
Eric Van Hensbergen    ARM Research 
Arrvindh Shriraman     Simon Fraser University
Devesh Tiwari          Oak Ridge National Lab
Sudhakar Yalamanchili  Georgia Tech 
Chuanjun Zhang         Intel

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