[ieeetcsc-discuss] CF08:Early deadline registration April 4th

Wed Mar 19 01:28:39 PDT 2008

Dear colleagues,

The early deadline registration of Computing frontiers 08 is in two 
weeks (April 4th). Sorry for multiple copies,

J. Corbalan
Publicity Chair CF08

*** Apologies for multiple copies. Please circulate to colleagues
who may be interested in innovative computing systems. ***
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Call for Participation
2008 ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers
(Computing Frontiers 2008)

Ischia, Italy
May 5-7, 2008

http://www.computingfrontiers.org/

Sponsored by:

Association for Computing Machinery
ACM Special Interest Group on Microarchitecture

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The increasing needs of present and future computation-intensive
applications have stimulated research in new and innovative approaches
to the design and implementation of high-performance computing systems.
These boundaries between state of the art and innovation constitute the
computing frontiers that must be pushed forward to provide the
computational support required for the advancement of all science
domains and applications. This conference focuses on a wide spectrum of
advanced technologies and radically new solutions; it is designed to
foster communication among many scientific and technological disciplines.

The conference program includes papers on all areas of innovative
computing systems that extend the current frontiers of
computer science and engineering and that will provide
advanced systems for current and future applications.
Please find more information about accepted technical
papers in the porgam below.

Selected papers will be published in the conference proceedings and will
be made available in the ACM Digital Library. In addition, selected
papers will be invited to appear in a special issue of the HiPEAC journal.

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Important dates
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* Early registration deadline: April 4th
* Conference hotel rate available until April 18, 2008

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Keynote Talks
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Keshav Pingali, UT Austin, Data-parallel Abstractions for Irregular Programs

Valentina Salapura, IBM Watson, Scaling Up Next Generation Supercomputers

Raffaele Tripiccione, U Ferrara, JANUS: Reconfigurable High-Performance 
Computing for Physics

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Workshops
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* Workshop on " Memory Access on Future Processors: A Solved Problem?"
* Workshop on " Radiation Effects and Fault Tolerance in Nanometer"

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Call for Participation in Special session
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**** A Snapshot into the Future, New FP7 Computing Systems Projects ****

In the era of the multi- and many-core, new challenges such as power
appear in tandem with new opportunities in heterogeneous, reconfigurable
and parallel computing. The solutions for this new era should be
scalable from embedded systems all the way to high-performance computing
platforms. Nanoscale manufacturing processes increase the relevance of
reliability and availability while the future appearance of tens or
hundreds of cores on a single chip move programmability to center stage,
i.e. how to extract the full potential of multicore hardware.

The European Commission has highlighted the above issues in its first
Information and Communication Technologies Call of the Seventh Framework
Programme under the Computing Systems objective. We will devote a
special session to the Computing Systems projects accepted for funding
under this first call. This will be the first time when all these
projects will appear together in a public forum with a global relevance,
offering a unique opportunity of a detailed exposure into the future of
EU research in Computing Systems.

The special session will take place on May 6th.

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Conference Venue
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The conference will be held on the Mediterranean island of Ischia in the
Gulf of Naples. The conference hotel is the Hotel Continental Terme in
the heart of Ischia and features one of the largest and best equipped
spas of the island.

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Technical Program
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Monday, May 5

8:00-9:00
Registration

9:00-9:30
Welcome and Opening Remarks by General Chair and Program Co-Chairs

9:30-10:30
Keynote 1

Scaling Up Next Generation Supercomputers
Valentina Salapura
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA

Chair: Alex Ramirez, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain

10:30-11:00
Coffee Break

11:00-12:40
Session 1: Innovative Computing Platforms I (Cell)
Chair: Fabio Schifano, Università di Ferrara, ITALY

Accelerating Computing with the Cell Broadband Engine Processor
Catherine Crawford, Paul Henning, Michael Kistler, Cornell Wright

Cell-SWat: Modeling and Scheduling Wavefront Computations on the Cell 
Broadband Engine
Ashwin M. Aji, Wu-chun Feng, Filip Blagojevic, Dimitrios S Nikolopoulos

DMA-based Prefetching for I/O-Intensive Workloads on the Cell Architecture
M. Mustafa Rafique, Ali R. Butt, Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos

Exact Multi-pattern String Matching on the Cell/B.E. Processor
Daniele Paolo Scarpazza, Oreste Villa, Fabrizio Petrini

12:40-14:00
Lunch Break

14:00-15:15
Session 2: Programming Models
Chair: Keshav Pingali, University of Texas at Austin, USA

Principles of a Reversible Programming Language
Tetsuo Yokoyama, Holger Bock Axelsen, Robert Glück

FPGA-Based Prototype of a PRAM-On-Chip Processor
Xingzhi Wen, Uzi Vishkin

The Limits of Software Transactional Memory (STM): Dissecting Haskell 
STM Applications on a Many-Core Environment
Cristian Perfumo, Nehir Sonmez, Srdjan Stipic, Osman Unsal, Adrian 
Cristal, Tim Harris, Mateo Valero

15:15-16:30
Session 3: HPC
Chair: Valentina Salapura, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA

A Study of the Effects of Machine Geometry and Mapping on Distributed 
Transpose Performance
Maria Eleftheriou, Blake G. Fitch, Aleksandr Rayshubskiy, T.J. 
Christopher Ward, Phillip Heidelberger, Robert S. Germain

Optimizing Sparse Matrix-Vector Multiplication Using Index and Value 
Compression
Kornilios Kourtis, Georgios Goumas, Nectarios Koziris

A Framework for Scheduling Parallel DBMS User-defined Programs on an 
Attached High-Performance Computer
Michael Kochte, Ramesh Natarajan

16:30-17:00
Coffee Break

17:00-18:30
Poster Session

A Multi-Mode Video-Stream Processor with Cyclically Reconfigurable 
Architecture
Valeri Kirischian, Vadim Geurkov, Lev Kirischian

Effective Runtime Scalability Metric to Measure Productivity in High 
Performance Computing Systems
Jing Du, Xuejun Yang, Zhiyuan Wang

Exploiting the GPU to Accelerate DSS Query Execution
Pedro Trancoso, Artemakis Artemiou

Virtual Interacting Network Community: Exploiting Multi-Core 
Architectures to Increase Securit
Fabrizio Baiardi, Daniele Sgandurra

Application-Based Early Performance Evaluation of SGI Altix 4700 Systems
Subhash Saini, Dennis C. Jespersen, Dale Talcott, Jahed Djomehri, 
Timothy Sandstrom

Methodology for the Model-Driven Development of Self-Managing Systems
Radu Calinescu

19:30
Welcome Reception

Tuesday, May 6

9:00-9:30
Registration

9:30-10:30
Keynote 2

Data-parallel Abstractions for Irregular Programs
Keshav Pingali
University of Texas Austin, USA

Chair: Gianfranco Bilardi, Università di Padova, ITALY

10:30–11:00
Coffee Break

11:00-12:40
Session 4: Innovative Microarchitecture I
Chair: Carsten Trinitis, Technische Universität München, Germany

Optimizing Thread Throughput for Multithreaded Workloads on Memory 
Constrained CMPs
Major Bhadauria, Sally A. McKee

Reducing the Impact of Intra-Core Process Variability with 
Criticality-Based Resource Allocation and Prefetching
Bogdan F. Romanescu, Michael E. Bauer, Sule Ozev, Daniel J. Sorin

Credit-Based Dynamic Reliability Management using Online Wearout Detection
John Oliver, Rajeevan Amirtharajah, Venkatesh Akella, Frederic T. Chong

Low Power Microarchitecture with Instruction Reuse
Frederico Pratas, Georgi Gaydadjiev, Mladen Berekovic, Leonel Sousa, 
Stefanos Kaxiras

12:40-14:00
Lunch Break

14:00-15:15
Session 5: Innovative Design
Chair: Raffaele Tripiccione, Università di Ferrara, ITALY

A Modular 3D Processor for Flexible Product Design and Technology Migration
Gabriel H. Loh

Design of a Spintronic Arithmetic and Logic Unit Using Magnetic Tunnel 
Junctions
Shruti R. Patil, Xiaofeng Yao, Hao Meng, Jian-Ping Wang, David J. Lilja

Exact Combinational Logic Synthesis and Non-Standard Circuit Design
Paul Tarau, Brenda Luderman

15:15-15:45
Coffee Break

15:45-17:00
Session 6: Compilation
Chair: Geppino Pucci, Università di Padova, ITALY

Optimization Strategies for a Java Virtual Machine Interpreter on the 
Cell Broadband Engine
Kevin Williams, Albert Noll, Andreas Gal, David Gregg

Compiling for an Indirect Vector Register Architecture
Dorit Nuzman, Mircea Namolaru, Ayal Zaks, Jeff H. Derby

Compiler-Directed Frequency and Voltage Scaling for a Multiple Clock 
Domain Microarchitecture
Arun Rangasamy, Rahul Nagpal, Y.N. Srikant

20:00
Social Dinner

Location tba

Wednesday, May 7

9:30-10:30
Keynote 3

JANUS: Reconfigurable High-Performance Computing for Physics
Raffaele Tripiccione, Università di Ferrara, ITALY
Università di Ferrara, ITALY

Chair: Michael Gschwind, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA

10:30-11:00
Coffee Break

11:00-12:40
Session 7: Innovative Microarchitecture II
Chair: Michela Taufer, University of Texas at El Paso, USA

Emergent Algorithms for Centroid and Orientation Detection in 
High-Performance Embedded Cameras
Marcus Komann, Alexander Kröller, Christiane Schmidt, Dietmar Fey, 
Sandor P. Fekete

Profiling of Symmetric-Encryption Algorithms for a Novel 
Biomedical-Implant Architecture
Christos Strydis, Di Zhu, Georgi N. Gaydadjiev

Multi-Terabit IP Lookup Using Parallel Bidirectional Pipelines
Weirong Jiang, Viktor K. Prasanna

Improving Single-thread Performance with Fine-grain State Maintenance
Peng Zhou, Soner Onder

12:40-14:00
Lunch Break

14:00-15:15
Session 8: Innovative Computing Platforms II (GPGPU)
Chair: Maria Eleftheriou, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA

Accelerating Advanced MRI Reconstructions on GPUs
Samuel S. Stone, Justin P. Haldar, Stephanie C. Tsao, Wen-mei W. Hwu, 
Zhi-Pei Liang, Bradley P. Sutton

GPU Acceleration of Cutoff Pair Potentials for Molecular Modeling 
Applications
Christopher I Rodrigues, David J Hardy, John E Stone, Klaus Schulten, 
Wen-Mei W Hwu

Cost-Effective Medical Image Reconstruction: From Clusters to Graphics 
Processing Units
Maraike Schellmann, Jürgen Vörding, Sergei Gorlatch, Dominik Meiländer

15:15-16:30
Session 9: Systems
Chair: Claudia Di Napoli, C.N.R. “Istituto di Cibernetica”, ITALY

Active Storage Revisited: The Case for Power and Performance Benefits 
for Unstructured Data Processing Applications
Clinton Wills Smullen IV, Shahrukh Rohinton Tarapore, Sudhanva 
Gurumurthi, Parthasarathy Ranganathan, Mustafa Uysal

Scalable DHT-based Information Service for Large-scale Grids
Hai Jin, Yongcai Tao, Song Wu, Xuanhua Shi

A Distributed Evolutionary Method to Design Scheduling Policies for 
Volunteer Computing
Trilce Estrada, Olac Fuentes, Michela Taufer

16:30-17:00
Closing Remarks

16:20-16:30
Conference Adjourns

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Sponsors
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Association for Computing Machinery ACM SIGMICRO
<http://www.acm.org/sigmicro>