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The 2003 IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Internet ,  Technical Committee on Computer Architecture , and Technical Committee on Microprogramming and Microarchitecture . This annual international conference provides a forum for sharing advanced and well-established academic and industrial R&D work focused on performance analysis in the design of systems and software. A high standard has been set by the conference to select only a small number of papers that exhibit a quality level approaching that of research journals, but without the long turnaround time, to allow quick dissemination of results.  This year, ISPASS also includes two tutorials which are included free of charge to conference registrants.

Thursday, March 6, 2003

7:30 - 9:00 On-site registration, speaker's breakfast

9:00 Welcoming Remarks

9:30 Keynote Speech

• Yet another prognostication on the future of IC design
  Mark McDermott, Intel
  

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break

• Integrating Complete-System and User-level Performance/Power Simulators: The SimWattch Approach
  Jianwei Chen, Michel Dubois, Per Stenström, Univ. of Southern California
  
  
• Inferno: A Functional Simulation Infrastructure for Modeling Diverse Microarchitectural Data Speculations
  Hong Wang, Shiri Manor, Dave LaFollette, Ku-jei King, Perry Wang, Shay Levy, Intel
  

12:00 - 13:30 LUNCHEON (included as part of conference registration)

• Performance Potentials of Compiler Directed Data Speculation
  Youfeng Wu, Li-Ling Chen, Roy Ju, Jesse Fang, Intel
  
  
• Empirical Evaluation of Capacity Estimation Tools
  Cristina Duarte Murta, Mario E. Augusto, Federal University of Parana
  
  
• Mathematical Modelling of Adaptive Wormhole Routing in the Presence of Self-Similar Traffic
  G. Min, M. Ould-Khaoua, University of Glasgow
  

15:00 - 16:30 Session 3: Emerging Workloads - Analysis and Implementation   

• An MPEG-4 Performance Study for non-SIMD, General Purpose Architectures
  Sally A. McKee, Zhen Fang, Mateo Valero, Cornell University
  
  
• Accelerating Private-Key Cryptography via Multithreading on Symmetric Multiprocessors
  Praveen Dongara, T. N. Vijaykumar, Purdue Univ.
  
  
• TCP Performance Re-Visited
  Annie P Foong, Thomas R Huff, Herbert H Hum, Jaidev Patwardhan, Greg J Regnier, Intel

16:30 - 17:00 Coffee/Tea Break; ISPASS Committee Meeting

Friday, March 7, 2003

7:30 - 8:30 Speaker's Breakfast

8:30 - 9:30 Keynote

• Insight, Not (Random) Numbers
  Thomas M. Conte, North Carolina State U
  

9:30 - 11:00 Session 4: Web-enabled Applications I: Tracing and Evaluation   

• A New Synthetic Web-Server Trace Generation Methodology
  Steven Weber, Rema Hariharan, Sun
  
  
• Performance Analysis and Tracing of Technical and Java Applications On the Itanium 2 Processor
  Wessam Hassanein, Greg Astfalk, Rudolf Eigenmann, Purdue University
  
  
• Evaluating the Importance of Virtual Memory for Java
  Yolanda Becerra, Toni Cortes, Jordi Garcia, Nacho Navarro, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya

11:00 - 12:00 Session 5: Evaluation of Energy-Efficient Systems   

• On Evaluating Request-Distribution Schemes for Saving Energy in Server Clusters
  Karthick Rajamani, Charles Lefurgy, IBM
  
  
• Interplay of Energy and Performance for Disk Arrays Running Transaction Processing Workloads
  Sudhanva Gurumurthi, Jianyong Zhang, Anand Sivasubramaniam, Mahmut Kandemir, Hubertus Franke, N. Vijaykrishnan, Mary Jane Irwin, Pennsylvania State University

12:00 - 13:30 LUNCHEON (included as part of conference registration)

13:30 - 15:00 Session 6: Multimedia and E-Commerce: Workload Characterization   

• Performance Study of a Cluster Runtime System for Dynamic Interactive Stream-Oriented Applications
  Arnab Paul, Nissim Harel, Sameer Adhikari, Bikash Agarwalla, Umakishore Ramachandran, Ken Mackenzie, Georgia Tech
  
  
• Performance Modelling of Distributed E-Business Applications using Queuing Petri Nets
  Samuel Kounev, Alejandro Buchmann, Darmstadt University of Technology
  
  
• Performance Analysis and Optimization of a Distributed Video on Demand Service
  Daniela Alvim Seabra dos Santos, Alex Borges Vieira, Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, Sergio Vale Aguiar Campos, Federal University of Minas Gerais
  

15:00 - 16:30 Session 7: Web-enabled Applications II: Instrumentation and Characterization   

• Complete Instrumentation Requirements for Performance Analysis of Web based Technologies
  David Carrera, Jordi Guitart, Jordi Torres, Eduard Ayguadé,Jesús Labarta, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
  
  
• Performance Implications of Chipset Caches in Web Servers
  Ravi Iyer, Intel
  
  
• Web Applications and Dynamic Reconfiguration in UNIX Servers
  Joefon Jann, Pratap Pattnaik, Niteesh Dubey, R. Sarma Burugula, IBM

16:30 - 17:00 Coffee/Tea Break

17:00 - 18:30 Session 8: Simulation Tools II   

• Memory Reference Reuse Latency: Accelerated Sampled MicroarchitectureSimulation
  John W. Haskins, Jr.,  Kevin Skadron, University of Virginia
  
  
• A statistical model of skewed-associativity
  Pierre Michaud, IRISA/INRIA
  
  
• A Hybrid Allocator
  Yusuf Hasan, Morris Chang, Iowa Sate University

6:30 PM - 7:00 PM: Best Paper Awards and Closing Remarks

Saturday, March 8, 2003

9:00 - 12:00 Morning Tutorial

• Statistics for Performance Engineers
  David Lilja, Univ. of Minnesota

12:00 - 14:00 LUNCH

14:00 - 17:00 Afternoon Tutorial

• Mambo: Advances in PowerPC System Emulation
  Patrick J. Bohrer, Hazim Shafi, James Peterson, IBM
  

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