IISWC-2012

November 4-6, 2012

 San Diego, CA, USA



PROGRAM

 

Day 1

November 4 (Sunday)

6:00 - 9:00pm Conference Reception, Magnolia Room    

Day 2

November 5 (Monday)

Note: All sessions are in the La Jolla AB Ballroom at the Estancia La Jolla Hotel.
   7:45  -  8:15am     Continental Breakfast
   8:15  -  8:30am     Opening remarks
   8:30  -  9:30am     Keynote: Professor Kathy Yelick, University of California at Berkeley

   9:30  -10:00am     Break
 10:00  -12:00pm     Session 1: Best Paper Nominees

 12:00  -  1:30pm     Lunch
   1:30  -  3:00pm     Session 2: Parallelism
   3:00  -  3:30pm     Session 3: Ongoing Research
   3:30  -  5:00pm     Poster Session & Break

   6:00  -  10:00pm     Banquet (San Diego Harbor) (Departure Time TBD) 

Day 3

November 6 (Tuesday)

Note: All sessions are in the La Jolla AB Ballroom at the Estancia La Jolla Hotel.
   8:00  -  8:30am     Continental Breakfast
   8:30  -  9:30am    Session 4: Workload Analysis & Benchmark Development
   9:30  - 10:00am     Break
  10:00 - 12:00am     Invited Session: Hot Workloads
  12:00  - 1:30pm     Lunch

   1:30  -  2:30pm     Session 5: Hardware Performance Measurement

   2:30  -  3:00pm     Break

   3:00  -  4:00pm     Session 6: Energy-Aware Modeling & Optimization

 

 

 

Day 1 -  Sunday, November 4, 2012


 

 

Day 2 -  Monday, November 5, 2012

 

 7:45  - 8:15     Continental Breakfast
 8:15  - 8:30     Opening remarks
 8:30  - 9:30     Keynote: Professor Kathy Yelick, University of California at Berkeley (abstract)

    Chair: John Carter, IBM


 9:30  -  10:00    Break

 

10:00 - 12:00   Session 1: Best Paper Nominees (La Jolla AB)

    Chair: Lieven Eeckhout, Ghent U

●    Workload Characterization on a Production Hadoop Cluster: A Case Study on Taobao Zujie Ren (Hangzhou Dianzi U.), Xianghua Xu (Hangzhou Dianzi U.), and Jian Wan (Hangzhou Dianzi U.), Weisong Shi (Wayne State U.), Min Zhou (Taobao Corp.)

●    ECHO: Recreating Network Traffic Maps for Datacenters of Tens of Thousands of Servers Christina Delimitrou (Stanford), Sriram Sankar (Microsoft), Aman Kansal (Microsoft), Christos Kozyrakis (Stanford)

●    Wireless Body Area Networks: Where Does Energy Go? Sangwon Lee and Murali Annavaram (USC)

●    BenchNN: On the Broad Potential Application Scope of Hardware Neural Network Accelerators Tianshi Chen (ICT, China), Yunji Chen (ICT, China), Marc Duranton (CEA, France), Qi Guo (ICT, China), Atif Hashmi (U. of Wisconsin, Madison), Mikko Lipasti (U. of Wisconsin, Madison), Andrew Nere (U. of Wisconsin, Madison), Shi Qiu, (USTC, China), Michele Sebag (CNRS, France), Olivier Temam (INRIA, France)

 

12:00 - 1:30     Lunch


1:30 - 3:00      Session 2: Parallelism (La Jolla AB)

    Chair: Mikko Lipasti, U. Wisconsin-Madison

●    Phase Behavior in Serial and Parallel Applications Andreas Sembrant, David Black-Schaffer, and Erik Hagersten (Uppsala U.)

●    Deconstructing the Overhead in Parallel Applications Mark Roth (Simon Fraser U.), Micah J Best (U. of British Columbia), Craig Mustard (Simor Fraser U.), Alexandra Fedorova (Simon Fraser U.)

●    Whole Program Data Dependence Profiling to Unveil Parallel Regions in the Dynamic Execution Yukinori Sato (JAIST), Yasushi Inoguchi (JAIST), Tadao Nakamura (Keio University)

3:00 - 3:30      Session 3: Ongoing Research (La Jolla AB)

    Chair: Mikko Lipasti, U. Wisconsin-Madison

●    Automatic Discovery of Performance and Energy Pitfalls in HTML and CSSAdrian Sampson (U. of Washington), Calin Cascaval (Qualcomm), Luis Ceze (U. of Washington), Pablo Montesinos (Qualcomm), Dario Suarez Garcia (Universidad de Zaragoza)

●    Characterizing Global User Download Behavior on A Large-Scale Satellite Image Distribution System Brian Romoser, Ribel Fares, Peter Janovics, Ziliang Zong (Texas State U.)

●    Benchmarking Instruction Reliability to Intermittent Errors Melina Demertzi, Bardia Zandian, Ricardo Rojas, Murali Annavaram (USC)

 

3:30 - 5:00       Poster Session + Break

 

6:00  - 10:00      Banquet (San Diego Harbor Cruise)

 


 

Day 3 -  Tuesday, November 6, 2012

 

8:00 - 8:30     Continential Breakfast
8:30 - 9:30     Session 4: Workload Analysis & Benchmark Development (La Jolla AB)

    Chair: Luis Ceze, U. Washington

    Using Software Architectural Patterns for Synthetic Embedded Multicore Benchmark Development Etem Deniz (Bogazici U.), Alper Sen (Bogazici U.), Jim Holt (Freescale Semiconductor Inc., MIT), Brian Kahne (Freescale Semiconductor Inc.)

    A Storage-Centric Analysis of MapReduce Workloads: File Popularity, Temporal Locality and Arrival PatternsCristina L. Abad (UIUC), Nathan Roberts (Yahoo), Yi Lu (UIUC), Roy H. Campbell (UIUC)

 

9:30 - 10:00   Break


10:00 - 12:00   Invited Session: Hot Workloads (La Jolla AB)

    Chair: Thomas Wenisch, U. Michigan

    Analyzing the Facebook Workload Sanjeev Kumar (Facebook)

    Multidimensional Dynamic Behavior in Mobile Computing Mehrdad Reshadi (Qualcomm)

    Virtualization for HPC Joshua Simons (VMWare)

    Clinical Decision Support: The Challenge of Big Data and Big Computation, David Holmes III (Mayo Clinic)

 

12:00 - 1:30     Lunch


1:30 - 2:30       Session 5: Hardware Performance Measurement (La Jolla AB)

    Chair: John Davis, Microsoft Research

    Characterizing Thread Placement in the IBM POWER7 Processor Stelios Manousopoulos (NTU Athens), Miguel Moretó (Barcelona Supercomputer Center (BSC)& UPC), Roberto Gioiosa (BSC), Francisco J. Cazorla (BSC), Nectarios Koziris (NTU Athens)

    Micro-architectural Characterization of Desktop Cloud Workloads Tao Jiang, Rui Hou, Lixin Zhang, Ke Zhang, Licheng Chen, Mingyu Chen, Ninghui Sun (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

    A Quantitative Study of Irregular Programs on GPUs Martin Burtscher (Texas State U.), Rupesh Nasre (U. Texas - Austin), Keshav Pingali (U. Texas - Austin) (Talk Cancelled)

 

2:30 - 3:00     Break

 

3:00 - 4:00       Session 6: Energy-Aware Modeling and Optimization (La Jolla AB)

    Chair: Murali Annavaram, USC

    CHAOS: Composable Highly Accurate OS-based Power Models John D. Davis (Microsoft), Suzanne Rivoire (Sonoma State U.), Moises Goldszmidt (Microsoft), Ehsan K. Ardestani (UC Santa Cruz)

    Model-Based, Memory-Centric Performance and Power Optimization on NUMA Multiprocessors ChunYi Su (Virginia Tech), Dong Li (ORNL), Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos (Queen's U. of Belfast), Kirk W. Cameron (Virginia Tech), Bronis R. de Supinski (LLNL), Edgar A. Leon (LLNL)