[hpc-announce] CFP: WP3 First Workshop on Pioneering Processor Paradigms in conjunction with HPCA'17

[Ramon Bertran]

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Call for Contributions - WP3 - 2016
FIRST WORKSHOP ON PIONEERING PROCESSOR PARADIGMS (WP3)
in conjunction with the 23rd IEEE Symposium on High 
Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA'16)
4 February, 2017 / Austin, TX, USA
http://wp3workshop.website/
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Innovations in instruction set architecture (ISA), 
processor microarchitecture and supportive advances in
circuit design, compilers, semiconductor technology, 
pre-silicon specification, modeling and validation 
have all been essential elements of the computer 
systems revolution that has transformed human society 
so dramatically over the last six decades or more. 
In the late CMOS era, with power and reliability walls 
already causing major paradigm shifts, the need for 
new innovations in cross-layer, hardware-software 
design and modeling are being called for to help 
keep the IT industry moving and growing at historical 
rates.

In trying to forge a path of innovation, it is sometimes 
worth examining the past to look for major paradigm 
shifts in (micro)-architecture, circuits, modeling 
and software that helped us keep going in the face 
of past technology-driven disruption points. With 
this in mind, we present a new workshop pioneering 
processor paradigms (P3). With the help of true 
pioneers as well as budding new researchers, P3 will 
take a retrospective look at how past technological 
hurdles were circumvented through major innovations. 
The goal is to learn from the past in devising new 
solution strategies for the future.

The P3 workshop will offer a number of invited talks 
from true pioneers as well as reviewed selections 
from the new generation of researchers and teachers 
who are eager to take a retrospective look into 
surveying past pioneering work that can teach us a 
lesson about solution strategies of the future. 

*** Important Dates:

- Submission deadline: November 27, 2016
- Notification of acceptance: December 11, 2016
- Final paper submission: January 8, 2017
- Workshop date: February 4, 2017

** Call for contributions

The workshop on pioneering processor paradigms invites
survey (or tutorial)-like submissions for review. The 
ideal paper would highlight a single pioneering paper 
(or set of papers) constituting a major processing, 
design, modeling or software paradigm shift in the past. 
In addition to explaining the context and basic concepts 
articulated in such work, the author(s) should draw 
relevant conclusions about how this pioneering work 
could or should influence computing paradigms of the 
future.

Note: Ph.D dissertation research topic proposals from 
(junior graduate students) that contain a survey of a 
key paper or two to build up the motivational justification 
of the proposal are quite welcome, for example.

** Topics of interestest

Example topic areas include (but are not limited to):

- Processing and cache taxonomy papers.
- RISC architectures and CISC-to-RISC dynamic translation 
  support.
- Processor pipelining, super scalar processing and 
  branch prediction innovations.
- Register renaming, out-of-order execution and precise 
  interruption.
- Cycle-accurate processor performance modeling.
- Innovations in floating point arithmetic units and 
  vector/SIMD acceleration.
- VLIW architectures.
- Multi-threading, multiscalar and speculative multi-threading.
- Homogeneous and heterogeneous multi-core processors; 
  accelerator-enabled efficiency boost.
- Power, temperature, and reliability-aware computing – 
  with associated modeling innovations.
- Compiler innovations in support of novel microarchitectural 
  paradigms.
- Circuit design innovations in support of (micro)-architectural 
  paradigm shifts.

*** Registration
Refer to main conference: http://hpca2017.org/

*** Hotel Reservation
Refer to main conference: http://hpca2017.org/

For more details, please see http://wp3workshop.website/
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