Abstracts Due: June 25, 2010

Paper Submission: July 2, 2010

Acceptance Notification: August 31, 2010

 

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
  o Search engines, e-commerce, web services, databases, file/application servers

  o Embedded, mobile, multimedia, real-time, 3D-Graphics, gaming, telepresence
  o Life sciences, bioinformatics, scientific computing, finance, forecasting
  o Security, reliability, biometrics
  o Grid and Could computing

• Characterization of OS, Virtual Machine, middleware and library behavior
  o Virtual machines, Websphere, .NET, Java VM, databases
  o Graphics libraries, scientific libraries

• Characterization of system behavior, including
  o Operating system and hypervisor effects and overheads
  o Effects due to virtualization and dynamic optimization
  o Hardware accelerators (GPGPU, XML, crypto, etc)
  o Failures, availability, and reliability
  o User behavior and system-user interaction
  o Instrumentation methodologies for workload verification and characterization
  o Techniques for accurate analysis/measurement of production systems

• Implications of workloads in design issues, such as
  o Power management, reliability, security, performance
  o Processors, memory hierarchy, I/O, and networks

• Benchmark creation, analysis, and evaluation issues, including
  o Multithreaded benchmarks, benchmark cloning
  o Profiling, trace collection, synthetic traces
  o Validation of benchmarks

• Analytical and abstract modeling of program behavior and systems

• Emerging and future workloads
  o Transactional memory workloads; workloads for multi/many-core systems
  o Stream-based computing workloads; web2.0/internet workloads