2ND WORKSHOP ON NEAR-DATA PROCESSING (WoNDP)

2ND WORKSHOP ON NEAR-DATA PROCESSING (WoNDP)

http://www.cs.utah.edu/wondp/

Co-located with MICRO-47

Cambridge, UK

December 13, 2014

IMPORTANT DATES:

Paper submissions due: Friday October 17, 2014

Notification: Tuesday November 4th, 2014

Final Paper Due: Monday December 8th, 2014

Computing in large-scale systems is shifting away from the traditional compute-centric model to a much more data-centric one. This transition is driven by the evolving nature of what computing comprises, no longer dominated by the execution of arithmetic and logic calculations but instead dominated by large data volume and the cost of moving data to the locations where computations are performed. Data movement impacts performance, energy-efficiency and reliability. These trends are leading to changes in the computing paradigm driven by the notion of moving computation to the data in a so-called Near-Data Processing approach, which seeks to perform computations in the most appropriate location based on where data resides and what needs to be done with it.

This workshop is intended to bring together experts from academia and industry to share advances in the development of Near-Data Processing systems principles, with emphasis on large-scale systems. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

- Analysis of applications illustrating the potential for Near-Data Processing

- System and software architectures for Near-Data Processing

- Programming models for distributed and heterogeneous infrastructures driven by location of the data

- Processing/Memory/Storage architectures and microarchitectures for Near-Data Processing

- Performance evaluation of Near-Data Processing systems and subsystems

- Energy-efficiency and reliability analysis and evaluation of Near-Data Processing

Two kinds of papers are invited:

- Technical papers (4-6 pages) with preliminary results.

- Position papers (3 pages maximum) on directions for research and development.

ORGANIZERS:

Rajeev Balasubramonian , University of Utah

Boris Grot , University of Edinburgh

Jaime Moreno , IBM TJ Watson Research Center

Ravi Nair , IBM TJ Watson Research Center

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Rajeev Balasubramonian , University of Utah

Boris Grot , University of Edinburgh

Jeff Draper , USC/ISI

Ron Dreslinski, University of Michigan

Maya Gokhale , Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Nuwan Jayasena, AMD Research

Jaime Moreno , IBM TJ Watson Research Center

Arrvindh Shriraman , Simon Fraser University

Further details and submission instructions available at http://www.cs.utah.edu/wondp/.