Call for Papers for
the Tenth Workshop on Computer Architecture
Evaluation using Commercial
Workloads
(CAECW-10)
immediately preceding the
13th International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture
(HPCA-13)
to
be held in Phoenix, Arizona
on
Sunday February 11, 2007
http://www.elis.ugent.be/~leeckhou/caecw10/
The
function of this workshop is the discussion of work-in-progress
that
utilizes commercial workloads for the evaluation of computer
architectures. By discussing this ongoing research, the workshop
will
expose participants to the characteristics of commercial workload
behavior,
provide an understanding of how commercial workloads exercise computer
systems
and help establish methodologies for measuring, modeling and analyzing
the
execution time characteristics of these workloads.
Topics of interest
Below is the proposed list of topics for the workshop. Topics
include, but
are not restricted to, the following:
- Traditional and emerging commercial
workloads of interest
- Transaction processing, decision
support, ERP, main memory and streaming database servers
- Multi-tier environments, including
e-commerce, web servers and application servers
- Data mining and search engines
- Managed runtime systems (e.g., Java
virtual machines)
- Storage system workloads
- Streaming media workloads
- XML-based workloads
- Workload analysis and characterization
- Architecture-independent
characterization of workloads
- Impact of input data on workload
behavior
- Techniques for comparing workload
behavior (e.g., commercial workloads vs. scientific workloads, industry
standard benchmarks vs. end-user workloads)
- Design and evaluation of synthetic
workloads representative of commercial workloads
- Characterization of common
components of commercial workloads (e.g., packet processing, XML/HTML
processing, garbage collection, etc.)
- Systems architecture and design
- Processor, cache, memory, I/O, or
network subsystem design and analysis using commercial workloads
- System-level design and analysis of
parallel or multiprocessor servers, including blade servers
- Symmetric or asymmetric multi-core
architectures
- Server consolidation models (virtual machines)
- Energy-efficiency of commercial
workloads
- Application and/or OS kernel
algorithm improvements to enhance performance
- Independent validation of previously
proposed work using commercial workloads
- Evaluation techniques and
methodologies
- Simulation and
analytical/statistical modeling techniques for evaluating the
performance of commercial workloads
- Validations and comparisons of
full-system simulators
- Performance evaluation of existing
architectures using commercial workloads
- Scalability considerations for
commercial workloads (e.g., multiprocessor scaling in a single-server
configuration vs. scalability in multi-server configurations vs.
scalability on consolidated servers using virtual machines)
Intended audience
- Industry practitioners interested in
performance evaluation, commercial workloads, and hardware/system
software design.
- Researchers from the academic
community or research labs.
- Software experts from academia or from
industry (e.g., databases, application servers, etc.)
Submission guidelines
Interested authors are expected to submit a short paper (up to six
pages) by
the submission deadline in pdf
format to one of the workshop organizers. Papers will be reviewed and
accepted based on their novelty, their relevance to
the
workshop and their technical merit. Authors of accepted papers are
expected to
submit the final version of their short paper (no more than six pages)
by the
final version deadline. A bound proceedings will be distributed to the
workshop
attendees. In addition, accepted papers will be made available on
the
workshop's web site. Authors of accepted papers are also expected to
present
their work during a 20-minute talk.
Important dates
- Paper submission deadline: EXTENDED to November 24, 2006
- Notification of acceptance: December 15, 2006
- Final version deadline: January 12, 2007
- Workshop: February 11, 2007
Workshop Organizers
Past workshops