| Start | End | Monday, April 2, 2018 Riddel Hall, Queen's University Belfast |
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| 7:30 | 8:00 | Registration Opens (CR1 & 2 Lobby) |
| 8:00 | 9:30 | Workshop: FastPath 2018 International Workshop on Performance Analysis of Machine Learning Systems (Conference Room 1) Tutorials: Improving Energy-Efficiency in Arm-based Systems (Lecture Room 3) Benchmarking modern online services on real and simulated hardware (Conference Room 2) GenSim: A Toolset for Binary Translation and Emulation (Lecture Room 2) |
| 9:30 | 10:00 | Tea and Coffee (CR1 & 2 Lobby) |
| 10:00 | 12:00 | Morning workshops and tutorials continue |
| 12:00 | 13:30 | Lunch (Courtyard) |
| 13:30 | 15:00 | Workshop: FastPath 2018 International Workshop on Performance Analysis of Machine Learning Systems (Conference Room 1) Tutorials: Cache-aware Roofline Model: Performance, Power and Energy-Efficiency Modeling of Parallel Processors (Lecture Room 1) Lift - performance portable code generation on parallel accelerators (Syndicate Room 6) |
| 15:00 | 15:30 | Tea and Coffee (CR1 & 2 Lobby) |
| 15:30 | 17:00 | Afternoon workshops and tutorials continue |
| Start | End | Tuesday, April 3, 2018 Riddel Hall Conference Rooms 1 & 2, Queen's University Belfast |
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| 7:30 | 8:00 | Registration Opens (CR1 & 2 Lobby) |
| 8:00 | 9:30 | Welcome and Keynote I
Session Chair: Bronis de Supinski, LLNL Reconciling Software to a Heterogeneous World Mike O'Boyle, University of Edinburgh |
| 9:30 | 10:00 | Tea and Coffee (CR1 & 2 Lobby) |
| 10:00 | 12:00 | Paper Session I: Best Paper Nominees
- Session Chair: Thomas Wenisch, University of Michigan
Behind the Scenes: Memory Analysis of Graphical Workloads on Tile-based GPUs Germán Ceballos, Andreas Sembrant (Uppsala University), Trevor E. Carlson (National University of Singapore), David Black-Schaffer (Uppsala University) Performance Analysis of NVMe SSD-based All-flash Array Systems Young Tack Jin, Sungjoon Ahn (CircuitBlvd), Sungjin Lee (DGIST) Doppio: I/O-Aware Performance Analysis, Modeling and Optimization for In-Memory Computing Framework Peipei Zhou (University of California, Los Angeles), Zhenyuan Ruan (University of California, Los Angeles), Zhenman Fang (UCLA/Xilinx), Megan Shand, David Roazen (Broad Institute), Jason Cong (University of California, Los Angeles) MAPS: Understanding Metadata Access Patterns in Secure Memory Tamara Silbergleit Lehman, Andrew D. Hilton, Benjamin C. Lee (Duke University) |
| 12:00 | 13:30 | Lunch (Courtyard) |
| 13:30 | 15:00 | Paper Session II: Energy and Power
Session Chair: Mark Hempstead, Tufts University
Hardware-Validated CPU Performance and Energy Modelling Matthew J. Walker (University of Southampton), Sascha Bischoff, Stephan Diestelhorst (ARM), Geoff Merrett, Bashir Al-Hashimi (University of Southampton) Micro-Viruses for Fast System-Level Voltage Margins Characterization in Multicore CPUs George Papadimitriou, Athanasios Chatzidimitriou, Manolis Kaliorakis, Yannos Vastakis, Dimitris Gizopoulos (University of Athens) DORA: Optimizing Smartphone Energy Efficiency and Web Browser Performance under Interference Davesh Shingari (Arizona State University/Marvell), Akhil Arunkumar, Benjamin Gaudette, Sarma Vrudhula, Carole-Jean Wu (Arizona State University) |
| 15:00 | 15:30 | Tea and Coffee (CR1 & 2 Lobby) |
| 15:30 | 17:00 | Paper Session III: Data Centers and Interconnects
Session Chair: Andrew Hilton, Duke University
Proctor: Identifying and Mitigating Interference in Shared Datacenters Ram Srivatsa Kannan, Mike Laurenzano, Animesh Jain, Lingjia Tang, Jason Mars (University of Michigan) Extensible Flit-Level Simulation of Large-Scale Interconnection Networks Nic McDonald, Adriana Flores, Al Davis (Hewlett-Packard Enterprise), Mikhail Isaev (Georgia Institute of Technology), John Kim (Korea Advanced Institute of Technology), Doug Gibson (Hewlett-Packard Enterprise) Performance Implications of NoCs on 3D-Stacked Memories: Insights From the Hybrid Memory Cube Ramyad Hadidi, Bahar Asgari, Jeffrey Young, Burhan Ahmad Mudassar, Kartikay Garg, Tushar Krishna, Hyesoon Kim (Georgia Institute of Technology) |
| 17:00 | 18:00 | Poster Session (outside Conference Rooms 1 & 2 at Riddel Hall)
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| 18:00 | 18:15 | Bus to Belfast City Hall |
| 18:15 | onward | Tour, Drinks Reception, and Dinner (City Hall) |
| Start | End | Wednesday, April 4, 2018 Riddel Hall Conference Rooms 1 & 2, Queen's University Belfast |
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| 7:30 | 8:00 | Registration Opens |
| 8:00 | 9:30 | Welcome and Keynote II
Session Chair: Dimitris Nikopoulos, Queen's University Belfast Evaluating the advantage of the KMAX optimized scale-out system architecture John Goodacre, ARM, University of Manchester, and KALEAO Ltd |
| 9:30 | 10:00| Tea and Coffee (CR1 & 2 Lobby) |
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| 10:00 | 12:00 | Paper Session IV: Emerging Workloads and Benchmarks
Session Chair: Hans Vandierendonck, Queens University Belfast
Understanding the Characteristics of Mobile Augmented Reality Applications
Huixiang Chen (University of Florida), Yuting Dai (Guizhou University/University of Florida), Hao Meng (University of Florida), Yilun Chen (Purdue University/University of Florida), Tao Li (NSF/University of Florida) Performance Characterization of Multi-threaded Graph Processing Applications on Many-Integrated-Core Architecture Lei Jiang, Langshi Chen, Judy Qiu (Indiana University Bloomington) A Workload Characterization of the SPEC CPU2017 Benchmark Suite Ankur Limaye, Tosiron Adegbija (University of Arizona) The Alberta Workloads for the SPEC CPU 2017 Benchmark Suite Jose Nelson Amaral (University of Alberta), Edson Borin (Universidade de Campinas), Dylan Ashley (University of Alberta), Caian Benedicto (Universidade de Campinas), Eliot Colp (Bioware), Joao Henrique Stange Hoffman (Universidade de Campinas), Marcus Karpoff, Erick Ochoa, Morgan Redshaw (University of Alberta), Raphael Ernani Rodrigues (Microsoft) |
| 12:00 | 13:30 | Lunch and Best Paper Award Presentation (Courtyard) |
| 13:30 | 15:00 | Paper Session V: Performance Analysis Methods
Session Chair: Jayneel Gandhi, VMware Research
Towards Cross-Framework Workload Analysis via Flexible Event-Driven Interfaces
Michael Lui, Karthik Sangaiagh (Drexel University), Mark Hemsptead (Tufts University), Baris Taskin (Drexel University) Extending the Performance Analysis Tool Box: Multi-Stage CPI Stacks and FLOPS Stacks Stijn Eyerman, Wim Heirman, Kristof Du Bois, Ibrahim Hur (Intel) Low-Overhead Dynamic Instruction Mix Generation Using Hybrid Basic Block Profiling Andrzej Nowak (CERN Openlab and EPFL), Ahmad Yasin (Intel), Pawel Szostek (Criteo), Willy Zwaenepoel (EPFL) |
| 15:00 | 15:30 | Tea and Coffee (CR1 & 2 Lobby) |
| 15:30 | 17:30 | Paper Session VI: GPU Performance
Session Chair: Stijn Eyerman, Intel
Performance Characterisation and Simulation of Intel's Integrated GPU Architecture
Prasun Gera, Hyojong Kim, Hyesoon Kim (Georgia Institute of Technology), Sunpyo Hong (Intel), Vinod George (Intel), Chi-Keung (CK) Luk (Intel) Evaluating Performance Tradeoffs on the Radeon Open Compute Platform Yifan Sun, Saoni Mukherjee, Trinayan Baruah, Shi Dong, Julian Gutierrez, Prannoy Mohan, David Kaeli (Northeastern University) A Cross-platform Evaluation of Graphics Shader Compiler Optimization Lewis Crawford, Michael O'Boyle (University of Edinburgh) Characterizing a Commercial Multidimensional Heterogeneous Processor Under GPGPU Workloads Matthew Watkins (Lafayette College), Philip Bedoukian (Cornell University) |