Abstracts Due: April 17, 2009

Paper Submission: April 24, 2009

Acceptance Notification: June 27, 2009

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