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Call for Participation: IISWC 2015





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******* CALL FOR PARTICIPATION : IISWC 2015 *******
2015 IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization
Atlanta, GA, October 4-6, 2015

We are pleased to invite you to attend the IEEE International Symposium on
Workload Characterization on October 4th – 6th, 2015, at the Georgia Tech Hotel
and Conference Center in Atlanta, Georgia.

IISWC is the only symposium of its kind anywhere.  If you are interested at all
with what computing workloads really look like today, IISWC is where you can
get answers.

Come join us in lovely midtown Atlanta on the Georgia Tech campus for 3-days of
learning, networking, and collaboration:


Best regards,
Sudhakar Yalamanchili and Hyesoon Kim, IISWC Program co-Chairs
Rich Vuduc and Tom Conte, IISWC General co-Chairs


TUTORIALS
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4TH, 2015

Tutorial I: Contech: Modeling and Analyzing Parallel Programs with Task
Graphs (9am to 12:30pm)

Tutorial II: Wind River® Simics and Intel® SAE: Dynamic Binary Instrumentation
of OS Kernel, Driver and BIOS (9am to 12:30pm)

Tutorial III: Open-Source Benchmarks for Online Data-Intensive Services (1:30pm
to 5pm)

Tutorial IV: Sigil and SynchroTrace: Communication-Aware Workload Profiling and
Memory-NoC Simulation (1:30pm to 5pm)


PROGRAM

MONDAY, OCTOBER 5TH, 2015
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07:30 – 08:15 REGISTRATION
08.15 – 08:30 OPENING AND WELCOME
08:30 – 09:30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Workload Characterization in the Era of Specialization
David Brooks, Harvard University

09:30 – 10:00 BREAK 

10.00 – 12.00 PAPER SESSION 1: MOBILE APPLICATIONS

Big or Little: A Study of Mobile Interactive Applications on an Asymmetric
Multi-core Platform
Wonik Seo (KAIST), Daegil Im (Samsung Electronics), Jeongim Choi (KAIST),
Jaehyuk Huh (KAIST) 

I/O Characteristics of Smartphone Applications and Their Implications for eMMC
Design 
Deng Zhou (San Diego State University), Wen Pan (San Diego State University),
Wei Wang (San Diego State University, Tao Xie (San Diego State University)

Characterization and Throttling-based Mitigation of Memory Interference for
Heterogeneous Smartphones 
Davesh Shingari (Arizona State University), Akhil Arunkumar (Arizona State
University), Carole-Jean Wu (Arizona State University)

Energy-Performance Trade-offs on Energy-Constrained Devices with
Multi-Component DVFS 
Rizwana Begum (Drexel Univeristy), Guru Prasad Srinivasa (University at
Buffalo), David Werner (Drexel Univeristy), Mark Hempstead (Drexel
Univeristy), Geoffrey Challen (Drexel University) 

12:00 – 13:00 LUNCH

13:00 – 14:30 PAPER SESSION 2: BEST PAPER NOMINEES 

CRONO: A Benchmark Suite for Multithreaded Graph Algorithms Executing on
Futuristic Multicores 
Masab Ahmad (University of Connecticut), Farrukh Hijaz (University of
Connecticut), Qingchuan Shi (University of Connecticut), Omer Khan
(University of Connecticut)
   
Locality Exists in Graph Processing: Workload Characterization on an Ivy Bridge
Server 
Scott Beamer (UC Berkeley), Krste Asanovic (UC Berkeley), David Patterson (UC
Berkeley)  

Performance Characterization for High-Level Programming Models for GPU Graph
Analytics 
Yuduo Wu (University of California,  Davis),  Yangzihao Wang (University of
California, Davis), Yuechao Pan (University of California, Davis), Carl
Yang (University of California, Davis), John D. Owens (University of
California, Davis)
   
14:30 – 15:00 BREAK

15:00 – 16:30 PAPER SESSION 3: GPUS I

Fast Computational GPU Design with GT-Pin 
Melanie Kambadur(Columbia University), Sunpyo Hong (Intel), Juan Cabra
(Intel), Harish Patil (Intel), Chi-Keung Luk (Intel), Sohaib Sajid (Intel),
Martha A. Kim (Columbia University)

GPU Computing Pipeline Inefficiencies and Optimization Opportunities in
Heterogeneous CPU-GPU Processors 
Joel Hestness (University of Wisconsin – Madison), Stephen W. Keckler (NVIDIA
and University of Texas – Austin), David A. Wood (University of Wisconsin –
Madison) 

Exploring Parallel Programming Models for Heterogeneous Computing Systems 
Mayank Daga (AMD), Zachary S. Tschirhart (AMD), Chip Freitag (AMD) 

16:30 – 18:00 POSTER SESSION

On Power-Performance Characterization of Concurrent Throughput Kernels
Nilanjan Goswami (University of Florida), Yuhai Li (University of Florida),
Amer Qouneh (University of Florida), Chao Li (Shanghai Jiao Tong University),
Tao Li (University of Florida) 

Retrospective Look Back on the Road Towards Energy Proportionality 
Daniel Wong (University of Southern California), Julia Chen (University of
Southern California), Murali Annavaram (University of Southern California)

Characterization of Shared Library Access Patterns of Android Applications
Xiaowan Dong (University of Rochester), Sandhya Dwarkadas (University of
Rochester), Alan Cox (Rice University) 

Characterizing Data Analytics Workloads on Intel Xeon Phi 
Biwei Xie (ICT CAS), Xu Liu (College of William and Mary), JianFeng Zhan(ICT
CAS), Zhen Jia (ICT CAS), Yuqing Zhu(ICT CAS), Lei Wang (ICT CAS), Lixin
Zhang (ICT CAS)

How Good Are Low-Power 64-bit SoCs for Server-Class Workloads?
Reza Azimi (Brown University), Xin Zhan (Brown University), Sherief Reda
(Brown University)

A Taxonomy of GPGPU Performance Scaling
Abhinandan Majumdar (Cornell University), Gene Wu (The University of Texas at
Austin), Kapil Dev (Brown University), Joseph L. Greathouse (Advanced Micro
Devices), Indrani Paul (Advanced Micro Devices), Wei Huang (Advanced Micro
Devices), Arjun-Karthik Venugopal (Advanced Micro Devices), Leonardo Piga
(Advanced Micro Devices), Chip Freitag (Advanced Micro Devices), Sooraj Puthoor
(Advanced Micro Devices)

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6TH, 2015
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08:30 – 9:30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Commercial Big Data Workloads, Lessons from the Industry.
Flavio Villanustre, VP Technology, LexisNexis Risk Solutions

09:40 – 10:40  PAPER SESSION 4:  GPUS II 

Revealing Critical Loads and Hidden Data Locality in GPGPU applications 
Gunjae Koo (University of Southern California), Hyeran Jeon (University of
Southern California), Murali Annavaram (University of Southern California)

3D Workload Subsetting for GPU architecture Pathfinding 
Vinod Mohan George (Intel)

10:40 – 11:00 BREAK 

11:00 – 12:30  PAPER SESSION 5: SYSTEMS

PC Design Use and Purchase Relations
Al M. Rashid (Intel Corporation), Bob Kuhn (Intel Corporation), Bijan Arbab
(Intel Corporation), David Kuck (Intel Corporation)

Characterizing Disk Failures with Quantified Disk Degradation Signatures: An
Early Experience 
Song Huang (University of North Texas), Song Fu (University of North Texas),
Quan Zhang (Wayne State University), Weisong Shi (Wayne State University)

SourceMark: A Source-Level Approach for Identifying Architecture and
Optimization Agnostic Regions for Performance Analysis
Abhinav Agrawal (North Carolina State University), Bagus Wibowo (North Carolina
State University), James Tuck (North Carolina State University)

12.30 – 13:30 LUNCH

13.30 – 14.30  PAPER SESSION 6: SIMULATION 

Differential Fault Injection on Microarchitectural Simulators 
Manolis Kaliorakis (University of Athens), Sotiris Tselonis (University of
Athens), Athanasios Chatzidimitriou (University of Athens), Nikos Foutris
(University of Athens), Dimitris Gizopoulos (University of Athens)

Full Speed Ahead: Detailed Architectural Simulation at Near-Native Speed 
Andreas Sandberg (Uppsala University), Nikos Nikoleris (Uppsala University),
Trevor E. Carlson (Uppsala University), Erik Hagersten (Uppsala University),
Stefanos Kaxiras (Uppsala University), David Black-Schaffer (Uppsala
University)

14:30 – 15:00 BREAK


15:00 – 16.30  PAPER SESSION 7 
DATA CENTER AND CLOUD 

Power Aware NUMA Scheduler in VMware's ESXi Hypervisor 
Qasim Ali (VMware), Haoqiang Zheng (VMware), Tim Mann (VMWare), Raghunathan
Srinivasan (Intel)

Evaluating the Combined Impact of Node Architecture and Cloud Workload
Characteristics on Performance
Diman Zad Tootaghaj (The Pennsylvania State University), Farshid Farhat (The
Pennsylvania State University), Mohammad Arjomand (The Pennsylvania State
University), Paolo Faraboschi (HP Labs), Mahmut Taylan Kandemir (The
Pennsylvania State University), Anand Sivasubramaniam (The Pennsylvania State
University), Chita R. Das (The Pennsylvania State University)

Quantifying the Performance Impact of Memory Latency and Bandwidth for Big Data
Workloads 
Russell Clapp (Intel Corporation), Martin Dimitrov (Intel Corporation), Karthik
Kumar (Intel Corporation), Vish Viswanathan (Intel Corporation), Thomas
Willhalm (Intel Gmbh)

16:30 – BEST PAPER AWARD AND CLOSING


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