IISWC-2014

October 26-28, 2014

 Raleigh, North Carolina, USA

PROGRAM

Day 1

October 26 (Sunday)

    Workshops/Tutorials

  • Tutorial I:   (half day - 9am to 12pm)   

    • Darshan - I/O Workload Characterization for MPI Applications

     

  • Workshop I:   (Half day)  Canceled  

    • The First International Workshop on Energy-Aware Ubiquitous Computing (EnergyUbi)

     

  • 6:30pm Reception  

Day 2

October 27 (Monday)

   7:30  -  8:00am     Breakfast
   8:00  -  8:30am     Opening Remarks
   8:30  -  9:30am     Keynote: Kevin Skadron (University of Virginia)
   9:30  -10:00am     Break
 10:00  -12:00pm     Session 1: Characterizing Server Workloads
 12:00  -  1:30pm     Lunch
   1:30  -  3:00pm     Session 2: Best Paper Session
   3:00  -  4:15pm     Poster session
   4:15  -  6:15pm     Session 3: Benchmarks
   6:30  -  8:30pm     Excursion at CAM Raleigh

Day 3

October 28 (Tuesday)

   7:30  -  8:30am     Breakfast
   8:30  -10:00am     Session 4: GPU
 10:00  -10:30am     Break
 10:30  -12:00pm     Session 5: Analysis of Special Workloads
 12:00  -  1:30pm     Lunch
   1:30  -  3:00pm     Session 6: Big Data & Transactional Memory
   3:00  -  3:30pm     Break
   3:30  -  4:30pm     Session 7: Modeling

 

 

Place Information at Sheraton Raleigh Hotel

 

 

Day 1 -  Sunday, October 26, 2014

 

 

Day 2 -  Monday, October 28, 2014

 

    8:00  -  8:30     Opening Remarks
    8:30  -  9:30     Keynote: Kevin Skadron (University of Virginia)
    9:30  -10:00     Break

  10:00  -12:00     Session 1: Characterizing Server Workloads

      Chair: Benjamin Lee, Duke


●    Performance Analysis of the Memory Management Unit under Scale-out Workloads
Vasileios Karakostas (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya), Osman Unsal (Barcelona Supercomputing Center), Mario Nemirovsky (ICREA Senior Research Professor at Barcelona Supercomputing Center), Adrian Cristal (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spanish National Research Council (IIIA-CSIC), Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya), Michael Swift (University of Wisconsin - Madison)


●    Workload Characterization of Server-Side JavaScript
Takeshi Ogasawara (IBM Research)


●    Understanding the Behavior of In-Memory Computing Workloads
Tao Jiang (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Qianlong Zhang (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Rui Hou (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Lin Chai(Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Sally A. McKee (Chalmers University of Technology), Zhen Jia(Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences), and Ninghui Sun(Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)


●    Tradeoffs between Power Management and Tail Latency in Warehouse-Scale Applications
Svilen Kanev (Harvard University),Kim Hazelwood (Google Inc), Gu-Yeon Wei (Harvard University), David Brooks (Harvard University)


    1:30  -  3:00     Session 2: Best Paper Session

      Chair: Lingjia Tang, University of Michigan


●    Adaptive SMT Control for more Responsive Web Applications
Hiroshi Inoue (IBM Research - Tokyo, University of Tokyo), Toshio Nakatani (IBM Research - Tokyo)


●    Characterization and Analysis of Dynamic Parallelism in Unstructured GPU Applications
Jin Wang (Georgia Institute of Technology), Sudhakar Yalamanchili (Georgia Institute of Technology)


●    Measuring QoE of Interactive Workloads and Characterising Frequency Governors on Mobile Devices
Volker Seeker (University of Edinburgh), Pavlos Petoumenos (University of Edinburgh), Hugh Leather (University of Edinburgh), Björn Franke (University of Edinburgh)


    3:00  -  4:15     Poster Session

      Chair: Sally A. McKee, Chalmers University of Technology

●    Control Flow Behavior of Cloud Workloads
Jee Ho Ryoo (The University of Texas at Austin), Michael LeBeane (The University of Texas at Austin), Muhammad Faisal Iqbal (Johar Institute of Information Technology), Lizy John (The University of Texas at Austin)


●    Characterization of Transient Error Tolerance for a Class of Mobile Embedded Applications
Liang Wang (University of Virginia), Ramon Bertran (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center), Meeta S Gupta (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center), Alper Buyuktosunoglu (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center), Pradip Bose (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center), Kevin Skadron (University of Virginia)


●    Towards a Synthetic Brain Benchmark Suite
Michael Taylor (University of California, San Diego), Saturnino Garcia (University of San Diego), Chetan Gokhale (University of California, San Diego), David Lau (University of California, San Diego), Shelby Thomas (University of California, San Diego)


●    The Importance and Characteristics of Communication in High Performance Data Analytics
Andreea Anghel (IBM Research Zurich), German Rodriguez (IBM Research Zurich), Bogdan Prisacari (IBM Research Zurich)


●    Automatic Source Code Analysis of Branch Mispredictions
Celal Ozturk (University of Rhode Island), Ibrahim Burak Karsli(University of Rhode Island), Resit Sendag (University of Rhode Island)


●    QoS Aware Dynamic Time-Slice Tuning
Yang Ding (Qualcomm), Praveen Yedlapalli (Pennsylvania State University), Mahmut Kandemir (Pennsylvania State University)


●    A Cache Topology-Aware Multi-Query Scheduler for Multicore Architectures
Umut Orhan (Penn State), Wei Ding (Penn State), Praveen Yedlapalli (Penn State), Mahmut Kandemir (Penn State), Ozcan Ozturk (Bilkent University)


    4:15  -  6:15     Session3: Benchmarking

      Chair: Jia Rao, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs


●    Towards Realistic Benchmarking for Cloud File Systems: Early Experiences
Zujie Ren (Hangzhou Dianzi University), Weisong Shi (Wayne State University), Jian Wan (Hangzhou Dianzi University)


●    Benchmarking a Virtualization Platform
Vijayaraghavan Soundararajan (VMware, Inc.), Banit Agrawal (VMware, Inc.), Bruce Herndon (VMware, Inc.), Priya Sethuraman (VMware, Inc.), Reza Taheri (VMware, Inc.)


●    MachSuite: Benchmarks for Accelerator Design and Customized Architectures
Brandon Reagen (Harvard University), Sophia Shao (Harvard University), Bob Adolf (Harvard University), Gu-Yeon Wei (Harvard University), David Brooks (Harvard University)


●    Workload Synthesis: Generating Benchmark Workloads from Statistical Execution Profile
Keunsoo Kim (Yonsei University), Changmin Lee (Yonsei University), Jung Ho Jung (Yonsei University), Won Woo Ro (Yonsei University)


    6:30  -  8:30     Excursion at CAM Raleigh

 

 

Day 3 -  Tuesday, October 28, 2014

 

    8:30  -  10:00     Session 4: GPU

      Chair: Carole-Jean Wu, Arizona State University


●    Microarchitectural Performance Characterization of Irregular GPU Kernels
Molly A. O'Neil (Texas State University), Martin Burtscher (Texas State University)


●    Characterization and analysis of GPGPU design for Graph Applications
Qiumin Xu (University of Southern California), Hyeran Jeon (University of Southern California), Murali Annavaram (University of Southern California)


●    A Comparative Analysis of Microarchitecture Effects on CPU and GPU Memory System Behavior
Joel Hestness (University of Wisconsin - Madison), Stephen W Keckler (NVIDIA Research, University of Texas - Austin), David Wood (University of Wisconsin - Madison)


  10:00  -10:30     Break

  10:30  -12:00     Session5: Analysis of Special Workloads

      Chair: Ravi Soundararajan, VMware


●    Characterization of Call-Graph Profiles in Java Workloads
Takuya Nakaike (IBM Research - Tokyo), Hiroshi Inoue (IBM Research - Tokyo), Toshio Suganuma (IBM Research - Tokyo), Moriyoshi Ohara (IBM Research - Tokyo)


●    Quantifying the Energy Cost of Data Movement for Emerging Smart Phone Workloads on Mobile Platforms
Dhinakaran Pandiyan (Arizona State University), Carole-Jean Wu (Arizona State University)


●    Characterizing the Performance Effect of Trials and Rotations in Applications that use Quantum Phase Estimation
Ali JavadiAbhari (Princeton University), Shruti Patil (University of California, San Diego), Chen-Fu Chiang (University of Central Missouri), Jeff Heckey (University of California, Santa Barbara), Margaret Martonosi (Princeton University), Frederic T. Chong (University of California, Santa Barbara)


    1:30  -  3:00     Session6: Big Data & Transactional Memory

      Chair: Ron Dreslinski, University of Michigan


●    Characterizing and Subsetting Big Data Workloads
Zhen Jia (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Jianfeng Zhan (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Lei Wang (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Rui Han (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Sally A. McKee (Chalmers University of Technology)


●    Deep-dive Analysis of CloudSuite Data Analytics Workload
Ahmad Yasin (Haifa University), Avi Mendelson (Technion), Yosi Ben-Asher (Haifa University)


●    Thread-Level Speculation on Off-the-Shelf Hardware Transactional Memory
Rei Odaira (IBM Research - Tokyo), Takuya Nakaike (IBM Research - Tokyo)


    3:00  -  3:30     Break

    3:30  -  4:30     Session7: Modeling

      Chair: Jason Mars, University of Michigan


●    Performance Bottleneck Modeling: Analyzing DAGs With Microarchitectural Constraints
Victoria Caparros (ETH Zurich), Markus Püschel (ETH Zurich)


●    An Analysis of Address and Branch Patterns with PatternFinder
Celal Ozturk (University of Rhode Island), Ibrahim Burak Karsli (University of Rhode Island), Resit Sendag (University of Rhode Island)