FINAL PROGRAM

Day 1 - April 20 (Sunday)

• WORKSHOPs (UCAS-4, TIMERS-1, VPACT'08) 

• TUTORIAL

Day 2 - April 21 (Monday)

    8:45 -   9:00      Welcome 

    9:00 - 10:00     Keynote I    (Rich Uhlig, Intel Corporation)

                               "Virtualization: Implications and Opportunities for Performance Analysis" [PDF]

10:00 - 10:30     Break

10:30 - 12:00     Session 1: Accelerating Simulation                           

• Quick Performance Models Quickly: Timing-Directed Simulation on FPGAs
  Michael Pellauer, MIT; Murali Vijaraghavan, MIT; Michael Adler, Intel; Joel Emer, Intel, MIT

• Program Phase Detection based on Critical Basic Block Transitions
  Paruj Ratanaworabhan, Cornell University; Martin Burtscher, University of Texas at Austin

• An Adaptive Synchronization Technique for Parallel Simulation of Networked Clusters
  Ayose Falcon, Paolo Faraboschi, Daniel Ortega, HP Labs

12:00 - 1:30     Lunch

  1:30 - 3:00     Session 2: Parallelism   

• Conservative vs. Optimistic Parallelization of Stateful Network Intrusion Detection
  Derek Schuff, Yung Ryn Choe, Vijay S. Pai, Purdue University

• Computer Aided Engineering of Cluster Computers
  William R. Dieter, Henry G. Dietz, University of Kentucky

• An Analysis of I/O And Syscalls In Critical Sections And Their Implications for Transactional Memory
  Lee Baugh, Craig Zilles, UIUC

  3:00 - 3:30     Break

  3:30 - 5:00     Session 3A: Networking

• Full System Critical Path Analysis
  Ali Saidi, University of Michigan; Nathan Binkert, HP Labs; Steven Reinhardt, Reservoir Labs; Trevor Mudge, University of Michigan

• Explaining the Impact of Network Transport Protocols on SIP Proxy Performance
  Kaushik Kumar Ram, Ian C. Fedeli, Alan L. Cox, Scott Rixner, Rice University

• Performance Analysis of ARQ Protocols using a Theorem Prover
  Osman Hasan, Sofiene Tahar, Concordia University

  3:30 - 5:00     Session 3B: Scientific Workloads

• Investigating the TLB Behavior of High-end Scientific Applications on Commodity Microprocessors
  Collin McCurdy, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Alan Cox, Rice University; Jeffrey Vetter, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

• Scientific Computing Applications on a Stream Processor
  Ying Zhang, Xuejun Yang and Guibin Wang, National University of Defense Technology; Ian Rogers, The University of Manchester; Gen Li, Yu Deng and Xiaobo Yan, National University of Defense Technology

• Pinpointing and Exploiting Opportunities for Enhancing Data Reuse
  Gabriel Marin, John Mellor-Crummey, Rice University

 5:00 - 7:00     Reception (Location: The Arbor)

Day 3 - April 22 (Tuesday)

    9:00 - 10:00     Keynote II  (Todd Austin, University of Michigan)                             

                               "Why Tools Matter"  [PDF]

 10:00 - 10:30     Break

 10:30 - 12:00     Session 4: Workload Analysis and Simulation                                                       

• Processor Performance Modeling using Symbolic Simulation
  Omid Azizi, Stanford University; Jamison Collins, Intel Corporation; Dinesh Patil, Stanford University; Hong Wang, Intel Corporation; Mark Horowitz, Stanford University

• Next-Generation Performance Counters: Towards Monitoring Over Thousand Concurrent Events
  Valentina Salapura, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Karthik Ganesan, UT Austin, Alan Gara, Michael Gschwind, James C. Sexton and Robert E. Walkup, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

• Configurational Workload Characterization
  Hashem Hashemi Najaf-abadi and Eric Rotenberg, NCSU

12:00 - 1:30     Lunch

   1:30 -  3:00    Session 5: Benchmarks                                     

• Characterizing the Unique and Diverse Behaviors in Existing and Emerging General-Purpose and Domain-Specific Benchmark Suites
  Kenneth Hoste, Lieven Eeckhout, Ghent University

• Independent Component Analysis and Evolutionary Algorithms for Building Representative Benchmark Subsets
  Vassilios N. Christopoulos, David Lilja, Paul Schrater, Apostolos P. Georgopoulos, University of Minnesota

• Characterization of SPEC CPU2006 and SPEC OMP2001: Regression Models and their Transferability
  ElMoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall , Kshitij A. Doshi , Charles Yount , James Woodlee , Intel Corporation

    3:00 - 3:30     Break

 3:30 - 4:30    Session 6A: Heat and Reliability                            

• Dynamic Thermal Management through Task Scheduling
  Jun Yang, University of Pittsburgh; Xiuyi Zhou, University of Pittsburgh; Marek Chrobak, University of California Riverside; Youtao Zhang, University of Pittsburgh; Lingling Jin, Nvidia

• Metrics for Architecture-Level Lifetime Reliability Analysis
  Pradeep Ramachandran, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign; Sarita Adve, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign; Pradip Bose, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, NY; Jude Rivers, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, NY

  3:30 - 4:30    Session 6B: The Cell Processor                             

• Trace-based performance analysis on Cell BE
  Marina Biberstein, Moon Chang, Bilha Mendelson, Uzi Shvadron, Javier Turek, IBM

• HMMer-Cell : High Performance Protein Profile Searching on the Cell Broadband Engine
  Kursad Albayraktaroglu, AMD; Jizhu Lu, IBM; Michael Perrone, IBM; Manoj Franklin, University of Maryland

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