IISWC-2008 September 14-16, 2008 Seattle, WA, USA |
CALL FOR PAPERS
Important Dates
Paper Submission Due:
March 21, 2008
Acceptance
Notification: May 24, 2008
Topics of Interest
We
solicit papers in all areas related to characterization of computing system
workloads. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
Characterization of applications in areas including
Search engines, e-commerce, web services, databases, file/application servers
Embedded, mobile, multimedia, real-time, 3D-Graphics, gaming, telepresence
Life sciences, bioinformatics, scientific computing
Security, reliability, biometrics
Characterization of OS, Virtual Machine, middleware and library behavior
Virtual machines, Websphere, .NET, Java VM, databases
Graphics libraries, scientific libraries
Characterization of system behavior, including
Operating system and hypervisor effects and overheads
Effects due to virtualization and dynamic optimization
Hardware accelerators (GPGPU, XML, crypto, etc)
Failures, availability, and reliability
User behavior and system-user interaction
Instrumentation methodologies for workload verification and characterization
Techniques for accurate analysis/measurement of production systems
Implications
of workloads in design issues, such as
Power management, reliability, security, performance
Processors, memory hierarchy, I/O, and networks
Benchmark
creation, analysis, and evaluation issues, including
Multithreaded benchmarks
Profiling, trace collection, synthetic traces
Validation of benchmarks
Abstract modeling of program behavior
Emerging
and future workloads
Transactional memory workloads; workloads for multi/many-core systems
Stream-based computing workloads; web2.0/internet workloads
Special
Feature:
Benchmarks Session
IISWC will include a special benchmark session. Authors are invited to submit C, C++, Java, or C# code and inputs to this code for possible inclusion in a benchmark set that IISWC is making available to researchers. A paper must also be submitted explaining the benchmark and its relevance to its user community. Papers accompanying selected benchmarks will be presented at a special session to be held during the conference. Please contact the Benchmark Chair if you are interested in submitting a paper for this special session.