Abstracts Submission : May 6, 2016 May 13, 2016

Paper Submission : May 13, 2016 May 20, 2016

Acceptance Notification : July 22, 2016

 

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 domains such as
  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 Machine Learning, Analytics, Data mining
  o Security, reliability, biometrics
  o Grid and Cloud computing
  o User behavior and system-user interaction

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

• Implications of workloads in design issues, such as
  o Power management, reliability, security, performance
  o Processors, memory hierarchy, I/O, and networks
  o Design of accelerators, FPGA’s, GPU’s, etc.
  o Novel architectures (non-Von-Neumann)

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

• Measurement tools and techniques, including
  o Instrumentation methodologies for workload verification and characterization
  o Techniques for accurate analysis/measurement of production systems
  o Analytical and abstract modeling of program behavior and systems

• Emerging workloads and architectures, such as
  o Transactional memory workloads; workloads for multi/many-core systems
  o Stream-based computing workloads; web2.0/internet workloads; cyber-physical workloads
  o Near data processing architectures