[hpc-announce] Call for Participation: IISWC 2015

Tue Sep 22 00:22:39 CDT 2015

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******* CALL FOR PARTICIPATION : IISWC 2015 *******
2015 IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization
Atlanta, GA, October 4-6, 2015
http://www.iiswc.org

We are pleased to invite you to attend the IEEE International Symposium on
Workload Characterization on October 4th – 6th, 2015, at the Georgia Tech
Hotel
and Conference Center in Atlanta, Georgia.

IISWC is the only symposium of its kind anywhere.  If you are interested at
all
with what computing workloads really look like today, IISWC is where you can
get answers.

Come join us in lovely midtown Atlanta on the Georgia Tech campus for
3-days of
learning, networking, and collaboration:

REGISTER TODAY: http://www.iiswc.org/iiswc2015

Best regards,
Sudhakar Yalamanchili and Hyesoon Kim, IISWC Program co-Chairs
Rich Vuduc and Tom Conte, IISWC General co-Chairs

TUTORIALS
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4TH, 2015

Tutorial I: Contech: Modeling and Analyzing Parallel Programs with Task
Graphs (9am to 12:30pm)

Tutorial II: Wind River® Simics and Intel® SAE: Dynamic Binary
Instrumentation
of OS Kernel, Driver and BIOS (9am to 12:30pm)

Tutorial III: Open-Source Benchmarks for Online Data-Intensive Services
(1:30pm
to 5pm)

Tutorial IV: Sigil and SynchroTrace: Communication-Aware Workload Profiling
and
Memory-NoC Simulation (1:30pm to 5pm)

PROGRAM

MONDAY, OCTOBER 5TH, 2015
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07:30 – 08:15 REGISTRATION
08.15 – 08:30 OPENING AND WELCOME
08:30 – 09:30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Workload Characterization in the Era of Specialization
David Brooks, Harvard University

09:30 – 10:00 BREAK

10.00 – 12.00 PAPER SESSION 1: MOBILE APPLICATIONS

Big or Little: A Study of Mobile Interactive Applications on an Asymmetric
Multi-core Platform
Wonik Seo (KAIST), Daegil Im (Samsung Electronics), Jeongim Choi (KAIST),
Jaehyuk Huh (KAIST)

I/O Characteristics of Smartphone Applications and Their Implications for
eMMC
Design
Deng Zhou (San Diego State University), Wen Pan (San Diego State
University),
Wei Wang (San Diego State University, Tao Xie (San Diego State University)

Characterization and Throttling-based Mitigation of Memory Interference for
Heterogeneous Smartphones
Davesh Shingari (Arizona State University), Akhil Arunkumar (Arizona State
University), Carole-Jean Wu (Arizona State University)

Energy-Performance Trade-offs on Energy-Constrained Devices with
Multi-Component DVFS
Rizwana Begum (Drexel Univeristy), Guru Prasad Srinivasa (University at
Buffalo), David Werner (Drexel Univeristy), Mark Hempstead (Drexel
Univeristy), Geoffrey Challen (Drexel University)

12:00 – 13:00 LUNCH

13:00 – 14:30 PAPER SESSION 2: BEST PAPER NOMINEES

CRONO: A Benchmark Suite for Multithreaded Graph Algorithms Executing on
Futuristic Multicores
Masab Ahmad (University of Connecticut), Farrukh Hijaz (University of
Connecticut), Qingchuan Shi (University of Connecticut), Omer Khan
(University of Connecticut)

Locality Exists in Graph Processing: Workload Characterization on an Ivy
Bridge
Server
Scott Beamer (UC Berkeley), Krste Asanovic (UC Berkeley), David Patterson
(UC
Berkeley)

Performance Characterization for High-Level Programming Models for GPU Graph
Analytics
Yuduo Wu (University of California,  Davis),  Yangzihao Wang (University of
California, Davis), Yuechao Pan (University of California, Davis), Carl
Yang (University of California, Davis), John D. Owens (University of
California, Davis)

14:30 – 15:00 BREAK

15:00 – 16:30 PAPER SESSION 3: GPUS I

Fast Computational GPU Design with GT-Pin
Melanie Kambadur(Columbia University), Sunpyo Hong (Intel), Juan Cabra
(Intel), Harish Patil (Intel), Chi-Keung Luk (Intel), Sohaib Sajid (Intel),
Martha A. Kim (Columbia University)

GPU Computing Pipeline Inefficiencies and Optimization Opportunities in
Heterogeneous CPU-GPU Processors
Joel Hestness (University of Wisconsin – Madison), Stephen W. Keckler
(NVIDIA
and University of Texas – Austin), David A. Wood (University of Wisconsin –
Madison)

Exploring Parallel Programming Models for Heterogeneous Computing Systems
Mayank Daga (AMD), Zachary S. Tschirhart (AMD), Chip Freitag (AMD)

16:30 – 18:00 POSTER SESSION

On Power-Performance Characterization of Concurrent Throughput Kernels
Nilanjan Goswami (University of Florida), Yuhai Li (University of Florida),
Amer Qouneh (University of Florida), Chao Li (Shanghai Jiao Tong
University),
Tao Li (University of Florida)

Retrospective Look Back on the Road Towards Energy Proportionality
Daniel Wong (University of Southern California), Julia Chen (University of
Southern California), Murali Annavaram (University of Southern California)

Characterization of Shared Library Access Patterns of Android Applications
Xiaowan Dong (University of Rochester), Sandhya Dwarkadas (University of
Rochester), Alan Cox (Rice University)

Characterizing Data Analytics Workloads on Intel Xeon Phi
Biwei Xie (ICT CAS), Xu Liu (College of William and Mary), JianFeng Zhan(ICT
CAS), Zhen Jia (ICT CAS), Yuqing Zhu(ICT CAS), Lei Wang (ICT CAS), Lixin
Zhang (ICT CAS)

How Good Are Low-Power 64-bit SoCs for Server-Class Workloads?
Reza Azimi (Brown University), Xin Zhan (Brown University), Sherief Reda
(Brown University)

A Taxonomy of GPGPU Performance Scaling
Abhinandan Majumdar (Cornell University), Gene Wu (The University of Texas
at
Austin), Kapil Dev (Brown University), Joseph L. Greathouse (Advanced Micro
Devices), Indrani Paul (Advanced Micro Devices), Wei Huang (Advanced Micro
Devices), Arjun-Karthik Venugopal (Advanced Micro Devices), Leonardo Piga
(Advanced Micro Devices), Chip Freitag (Advanced Micro Devices), Sooraj
Puthoor
(Advanced Micro Devices)

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6TH, 2015
________________________________________________________________________________

08:30 – 9:30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Commercial Big Data Workloads, Lessons from the Industry.
Flavio Villanustre, VP Technology, LexisNexis Risk Solutions

09:40 – 10:40  PAPER SESSION 4:  GPUS II

Revealing Critical Loads and Hidden Data Locality in GPGPU applications
Gunjae Koo (University of Southern California), Hyeran Jeon (University of
Southern California), Murali Annavaram (University of Southern California)

3D Workload Subsetting for GPU architecture Pathfinding
Vinod Mohan George (Intel)

10:40 – 11:00 BREAK

11:00 – 12:30  PAPER SESSION 5: SYSTEMS

PC Design Use and Purchase Relations
Al M. Rashid (Intel Corporation), Bob Kuhn (Intel Corporation), Bijan Arbab
(Intel Corporation), David Kuck (Intel Corporation)

Characterizing Disk Failures with Quantified Disk Degradation Signatures: An
Early Experience
Song Huang (University of North Texas), Song Fu (University of North Texas),
Quan Zhang (Wayne State University), Weisong Shi (Wayne State University)

SourceMark: A Source-Level Approach for Identifying Architecture and
Optimization Agnostic Regions for Performance Analysis
Abhinav Agrawal (North Carolina State University), Bagus Wibowo (North
Carolina
State University), James Tuck (North Carolina State University)

12.30 – 13:30 LUNCH

13.30 – 14.30  PAPER SESSION 6: SIMULATION

Differential Fault Injection on Microarchitectural Simulators
Manolis Kaliorakis (University of Athens), Sotiris Tselonis (University of
Athens), Athanasios Chatzidimitriou (University of Athens), Nikos Foutris
(University of Athens), Dimitris Gizopoulos (University of Athens)

Full Speed Ahead: Detailed Architectural Simulation at Near-Native Speed
Andreas Sandberg (Uppsala University), Nikos Nikoleris (Uppsala University),
Trevor E. Carlson (Uppsala University), Erik Hagersten (Uppsala University),
Stefanos Kaxiras (Uppsala University), David Black-Schaffer (Uppsala
University)

14:30 – 15:00 BREAK

15:00 – 16.30  PAPER SESSION 7
DATA CENTER AND CLOUD

Power Aware NUMA Scheduler in VMware's ESXi Hypervisor
Qasim Ali (VMware), Haoqiang Zheng (VMware), Tim Mann (VMWare), Raghunathan
Srinivasan (Intel)

Evaluating the Combined Impact of Node Architecture and Cloud Workload
Characteristics on Performance
Diman Zad Tootaghaj (The Pennsylvania State University), Farshid Farhat (The
Pennsylvania State University), Mohammad Arjomand (The Pennsylvania State
University), Paolo Faraboschi (HP Labs), Mahmut Taylan Kandemir (The
Pennsylvania State University), Anand Sivasubramaniam (The Pennsylvania
State
University), Chita R. Das (The Pennsylvania State University)

Quantifying the Performance Impact of Memory Latency and Bandwidth for Big
Data
Workloads
Russell Clapp (Intel Corporation), Martin Dimitrov (Intel Corporation),
Karthik
Kumar (Intel Corporation), Vish Viswanathan (Intel Corporation), Thomas
Willhalm (Intel Gmbh)

16:30 – BEST PAPER AWARD AND CLOSING
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