Call for Participation & Conference Program /************************************************************ * CF'05 * * 2005 ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers * * Ischia, Italy, 4-6 May 2005 * * Sponsored by ACM - SIGMICRO * * * * http://www.computingfrontiers.org * * * ************************************************************/ Venue ----- Hotel Continental Terme, Ischia, Italy Early registration deadline: April 4, 2005 Early hotel reservation deadline: April 10, 2005 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. This challenging boundary between state of the art and innovation constitutes the computing frontiers, which needs to push forward and provide the computational support required for the advancement of all science domains and applications. This conference will focus on a wide spectrum of advanced technologies and radically new solutions and is designed to foster communication between the various scientific areas and disciplines involved. Invited Talks ------------- Daniel Gajski, to be confirmed Power and performance optimization at the system level. Valentina Salapura. IBM. Conference Program ------------------ May 4 ===== 9:00 - 10:00 Welcome Invited talk (Daniel Gajski, to be confirmed) 10:00 - 11:00 Track 6: Autonomic and Organic computing Marching-Pixels: A new organic computing paradigm for smart sensor processor arrays. Dietmar Fey, Daniel Schmidt. University Jena. First steps towards Organic Computing Systems ? Monitoring an adaptive protocol stack with a fuzzy classifier system. Thorsten Sch?ler, Christian M?ller-Schloer. SRA, Uni Hannover. 10:00 - 11:00 Track 5: Pervasive computing (part 1) Balancing Clustering-Induced Stalls to Improve Performance in Clustered Processors. Amirali Baniasadi. University of Victoria. Eldorado. John Feo, David Harper, Simon Kahan, Petr Konecny. Cray Inc. 11:00 - 11:20 Coffee break 11:20 - 12:50 Track 1: Non-conventional computing Reversible computing : from mathematical group theory to electronical circuit experiment. Alexis De Vos and Yvan Van Rentergem. Universiteit Gent. Two-state, Reversible, Universal Cellular Automata in Three Dimensions. Daniel B. Miller and Edward Fredkin. Carnegie Mellon University. Specific ergodicity: An informative indicator for invertible computational media. Tommaso Toffoli and Lev B. Levitin. Boston University. 12:50 - 14:00 Lunch 14:00 - 15:00 NSF Funding (Discussion panel) 15:00 - 16:00 Track 2: Grid computing (part 1) Jalapeno - Decentralized Grid Computing using Peer-to-Peer Technology. Niklas Therning and Lars Bengtsson. Chalmers University of Technology - Department of Computer Engineering. A Distributed Utility-based Two Level Market Solution For Optimal Resource Allocation In Computational Grid. Li Chunlin. wuhan university of technology. 15:00 - 16:00 Track 4: Reconfigurable computing (part 1) Reconfigurable Universal SAD-Multiplier Array. Humberto Calderon and Stamatis Vassiliadis. TU Delft. Evaluation of Extended Dictionary-Based Static Code Compression Schemes. Martin Thuresson and Per Stenstrom. Chalmers University of Technology. 16:00 - 16:20 Coffee break 16:20 - 17:20 Track 2: Grid computing (part 2) Grid Result Checking. Cecile Germain. LRI. GRID Based Federated Digital Library. Kurt Maly, Mohammad Zubair , V. Chilukumari, Pratik Kothari. ODU. 16:20 - 17:20 Track 4: Reconfigurable computing (part 2) Dynamic Loop Pipelining in Data-Driven Architectures. Jo?o M. P. Cardoso. University of Algarve. Owl: Next Generation System Monitoring. Martin Schulz, Brian White, Sally A McKee, Hsien-Hsin Lee, Juergen Jeitner. LLNL. May 5 ===== 9:00 - 10:00 Invited talk Power and performance optimization at the system level. Valentina Salapura. IBM. 10:00 - 11:00 Track 14: Quantum computing Improving Quantum Circuit Dependability with Reconfigurable Quantum Gate Arrays. Mihai Udrescu, Lucian Prodan, Mircea Vladutiu. University Politehnica Timisoara, Romania. Exploratory Research in Molecular Communication between Nanomachines. Tatsuya Suda, Michael Moore, Tadashi Nakano, Ryota Egashira, Akihiro Enomoto, Satoshi Hiyama, and Yuki Moritani. University of California, Irvine. 11:00 - 11:20 Coffee break 11:20 - 12:50 Track 3: High performance embedded architectures (part 1) Skewed Caches from a Low-Power Perspective. Mathias Spjuth, Martin Karlsson and Erik Hagersten. Uppsala University. Controlling Leakage Power with the Replacement Policy in Slumberous Caches. Nasir Mohyuddin, Rashed Bhatti and Michel Dubois. USC. Matrix Register File and Extended Subwords: Two Techniques for Embedded Media Processors. Asadollah Shahbahrami, and Ben Juurlink, and Stamatis Vassiliadis. Computer Engineering Group TUDelft. 12:50 - 14:00 Lunch 14:00 - 16:00 Track 7: Compilers and Operating Systems Optimizing General Purpose Compiler Optimization. M. Haneda and P.M.W. Knijnenburg and H.A.G. Wijshoff. Leiden University. Transition Aware Scheduling:Increasing Continous Idle-periods in Resource Units. K. Ananda Vardhan, Y. N. Srikant. Scheduling for Heterogeneous Processors in Server Systems. Soraya Ghiasi, Tom Keller and Freeman Rawson. IBM Austin Research Lab. Dynamic Run-time Architecture Techniques for Enabling Future Multi-threaded Multiprocessors. Dan Connors, Vijay Janapa Reddi, Alex Shye, Dave Hodgdon, Dan Fay, Alex Settle, Josh Kihm, Tipp Moseley. University of Colorado. 16:20 - 17:20 Track 10: Workload characterization of emerging applications A QoS-enabled Packet Scheduling Algorithm for IPSec Multi-Accelerator Based Systems. Alberto Ferrante, Fabien Castanier, Vincenzo Piuri. University of Milan. Sparse Matrix Storage Revisited. Malik Silva, Richard Wait. University of Colombo School of Computing. May 6 ===== 9:00 - 10:00 Track 8: Pervasive computing Contextual Knowledge Management in Peer to Peer Computing - Applications to Mobile-Multiplayer Games. V.K.Murthy and E.V.Krishnamurthy. Australian National University. Communication and Security Extensions for a Ubiquitous Mobile Agent System (UbiMAS). F. Bagci, H. Schick, J. Petzold, W. Trumler, and T. Ungerer. University of Augsburg. 9:00 - 10:00 Track 5: Pervasive computing (part 2) A Case for a Working-set-based Memory Hierarchy. Steve Carr and Soner Onder. Michigan Technological University. Exploiting Processor Groups to Extend Scalability of the GA Shared Memory Programming Model. J. Nieplocha, M. Krishnan, B. Palmer, Y. Zhang. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. 10:00 - 11:00 Track 13: Special purpose architectures A Computing Architecture for Physics. Edward Fredkin. Carnegie Mellon University. A combined hardware and software architecture for secure computing. J?rg Platte and Edwin Naroska. University of Dortmund. 11:00 - 11:20 Coffee break 11:20 - 12:50 Track 3: High performance embedded architectures (part 2) Reducing Misspeculation Overhead for Module-level Speculative Execution. Fredrik Warg and Per Stenstrom. Chalmers University of Technology. Partially Ordered Epochs for Thread-Level Speculation. Braxton Thomason and Craig Chase. Braxton Thomason and Craig Chase. University of Texas at Austin. A Time-Predictable Execution Mode for High-Performance Processors. Christine Rochange, Pascal Sainrat. IRIT. 12:50 - 14:00 Lunch 14:00 - 16:00 Track 15: Open topics PARNIDS: A Scalable Network Intrusion Detection Loadbalancer. Lambert Schaelicke and Kyle Wheeler. Univ. of Notre Dame. Reliability Assessment in Embryonics Inspired by Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation. Lucian Prodan, Mihai Udrescu, Mircea Vladutiu. University of Timisoara, Romania. Improve Branch Prediction Accuracy with Parallel Conservative Correctors. Chunrong Lai, Shih-Lien Lu, Yurong Chen. Intel China Research Center. When Prefetching Improves/Degrades Performance. Philip Emma, A Hartstein, Thomas R. Puzak, Vijayalakshmi Srinivasan. IBM . 14:00 - 16:00 Track 12: Temperature, energy, and complexity-aware designs An Efficient Wakeup Design for Energy Reduction in High-Performance Superscalar Processors. Kuo-Su Hsiao and Chung-Ho Chen. EE, NCKU, TW. On the Energy-Efficiency of Speculative Hardware. Nana B. Sam, Martin Burtscher. Cornell University. Exploiting Temporal Locality in Drowsy Cache Policies. Salvador Petit, Julio Sahuquillo, Jos? M. Such, and David Kaeli. Universidad Politecnica de Valencia. Drowsy Region Based Caches: Minimizing Both Dynamic and Static Power Dissipation. Michael J. Geiger, Gary S. Tyson, Sally A. McKee. Cornell University. 16:00 - 16:20 Coffee break 16:20 Closing remarks Special Session on Reversible Computing --------------------------------------- Thursday, May 5, there will be a special session on reversible computing. This session will comprise the 1st Int. Workshop on Reversible Computing. Invited speakers of this workshop are: Michael Frank, FAMU-FSU (US) Charles H. Bennett, IBM (US) Sarah Frost, Notre Dame U. (US) Dmitri Averin, SUNY Stony Brook (US) Paul Vitanyi, CWI (Netherlands) Colin Williams, NASA JPL (US) Organization ------------ General Chair Nader Bagherzadeh, University of California at Irvine, US Technical Program Chairs Mateo Valero, UPC, ES Alex Ramirez, UPC, ES Track Chairs 1. Olivier Temam, INRIA Futurs, FR 2. Frederica Darema, NSF, US 3. Per Stenstrom, Chalmers University, SE 4. Stamatis Vasiliadis, TU Delft, NL 5. Jose Moreira, IBM, US 6. Theo Ungerer, University of Augsburg, DE 7. Mike O'Boyle, Univ. of Edinburg, UK 8. Achilles Kameas, CTI, GR 9. Alvin Lebeck, Duke University, US 10. Koen De Bosschere, Ghent University, BE 11. Antonio Prete, University of Pisa, IT 12. Pradip Bose, IBM, US 13. Alex Veidenbaum, Univ. of California at Irvine, US 14. Peter Burke, University of California at Irvine, US 15. Gearold Johnson, Colorado State University, US Special Sessions Chair Giacomo Sechi, CNR - IASF, IT Publicity Chair Ben Juurlink, TU Delft, NL Publication Chair Sergio D'Angelo, CNR - IASF, IT Local Arrangements Chair Monica Alderighi, CNR - IASF, IT Registration/Finance Chair Sally McKee, Cornell University, US Webmaster Oliverio J. Santana, UPC, ES Steering Committee Monica Alderighi, CNR - IASF, IT Steven Beaty, Metro State College of Denver, US Sergio D'Angelo, CNR - IASF, IT Kemal Ebcioglu, IBM, US Jean-Luc Gaudiot, University of California at Irvine, US Gearold Johnson, Colorado State University, US Cecilia Metra, University of Bologna, IT Vincenzo Piuri, University of Milan, IT Giacomo Sechi, CNR - IASF, IT Stamatis Vassiliadis, TU Delft, NL -- Dr. Steve Beaty (B80), Chair Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences Metropolitan State College of Denver VOX: (303) 556-3208 | FAX: (303) 556-5381 beaty@emess.mscd.edu | http://clem.mscd.edu/~beatys/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This list can only be used by officers of ACM's SIGMicro. For information on the features of this emailing list, send email to "SIGMicro-request@cs.mscd.edu" with a subject of "help" 2005 ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers Ischia, Italy, 4-6 May 2005 Sponsored by ACM - SIGMICRO http://www.computingfrontiers.org/ 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. This challenging boundary between state of the art and innovation constitutes the computing frontiers, which needs to push forward and provide the computational support required for the advancement of all science domains and applications. This conference will focus on a wide spectrum of advanced technologies and radically new solutions and is designed to foster communication between the various scientific areas and disciplines involved. Authors are invited to submit papers on all areas of innovative computing systems which extend the current frontiers of computer science and engineering and that will provide advanced systems for current and future applications. Papers are sought on theory, methodologies, technologies, and implementations concerned with innovations in computing paradigms, computational models, architectural paradigms, computer architectures, development environments, compilers, operating environments, etc. Papers should be submitted to one of the following tracks: 1. Non-conventional computing 2. Grid computing 3. High performance embedded architectures 4. Reconfigurable computing 5. Supercomputing 6. Autonomic and Organic computing 7. Compilers and Operating Systems 8. Pervasive computing 9. Architectures and devices for emerging nanotechnologies 10. Workload characterization of emerging applications 11. SOC architectures 12. Temperature, energy, and complexity-aware designs 13. Special purpose architectures 14. Quantum computing 15. Open topics Papers with new ideas and perspectives on computing are more than welcome. Full papers should be submitted through the Conference Submission Page. Papers should be no longer than 6000 words, single-column and double-spaced, and in PDF format (printable with Acrobat Reader). PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS DECEMBER 6, 2004. Acceptance/rejection will be emailed by January 17, 2005. The final manuscript will due February 21, 2005. Submission implies that at least one author will register at the conference and present the paper. General Chair Nader Bagherzadeh, University of California at Irvine, US Technical Program Chairs Mateo Valero, UPC, ES Alex Ramirez, UPC, ES Track Chairs 1. Olivier Temam, INRIA Futurs, FR 2. Frederica Darema, NSF, US 3. Per Stenstrom, Chalmers University, SE 4. Stamatis Vasiliadis, TU Delft, NL 5. Jose Moreira, IBM, US 6. Theo Ungerer, University of Augsburg, DE 7. Mike O'Boyle, Univ. of Edinburg, UK 8. Achilles Kameas, CTI, GR 9. Alvin Lebeck, Duke University, US 10. Koen De Bosschere, Ghent University, BE 11. Antonio Prete, University of Pisa, IT 12. Pradip Bose, IBM, US 13. Alex Veidenbaum, Univ. of California at Irvine, US 14. Peter Burke, University of California at Irvine, US 15. Gearold Johnson, Colorado State University, US Special Sessions Chair Giacomo Sechi, CNR - IASF, IT Publicity Chair Ben Juurlink, TU Delft, NL Publication Chair Sergio D'Angelo, CNR - IASF, IT Local Arrangements Chair Monica Alderighi, CNR - IASF, IT Registration/Finance Chair Sally McKee, Cornell University, US Webmaster Oliverio J. Santana, UPC, ES Steering Committee Monica Alderighi, CNR - IASF, IT Steven Beaty, Metro State College of Denver, US Sergio D'Angelo, CNR - IASF, IT Kemal Ebcioglu, IBM, US Jean-Luc Gaudiot, University of California at Irvine, US Gearold Johnson, Colorado State University, US Cecilia Metra, University of Bologna, IT Vincenzo Piuri, University of Milan, IT Giacomo Sechi, CNR - IASF, IT Stamatis Vassiliadis, TU Delft, NL ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This list can only be used by officers of ACM's SIGMicro. For information on the features of this emailing list, send email to "SIGMicro-request@cs.mscd.edu" with a subject of "help"