June 16, 2012
Co-located with PLDI 2012, Beijing, China
http://safari.ece.cmu.edu/MSPC2012/
Abstract deadline: March 5, 2012 (11:59pm EST)
Paper deadline: March 12, 2012 (11:59pm EDT)
Notification: April 23, 2012
Final submission: May 1, 2012
Memory continues to be a major bottleneck in almost all computing systems. It is becoming more so as more cores and agents are sharing parts of the memory system and as applications that run on the cores are becoming increasingly data intensive. Continuing the tradition of six previous successful incarnations, MSPC 2012 will provide a forum for publishing and discussing all aspects of memory performance and correctness on a variety of systems (multi-core, desktop, embedded, server/cloud, high-performance computing, sensor, etc) and related software and hardware innovations at various levels of the technology stack. We invite new submissions that tackle issues in memory system performance, efficiency, correctness, and dependability in both hardware and software layers. Example areas of interest include but are not limited to the following:
* Hardware, software, and hybrid techniques for better memory performance,
correctness, reliability, efficiency
* Memory hierarchy design for chip multiprocessors (CMPs)
* Emerging memory technologies (e.g., Phase Change Memory, MRAM)
* Characterization and analysis of memory systems performance
* Insightful experimental evaluation and analysis of memory-intensive
workloads
* Static and dynamic techniques for understanding and improving memory
performance and efficiency
* Managed memory and garbage collection optimizations
* Hardware and software techniques for ensuring memory safety and detecting
memory-related bugs
* Hardware and software memory models and their impact on programmability
and performance
* Memory system issues in accelerator-based computing (e.g., GPGPU)
* Memory system issues in embedded computers and tiny devices
* Prefetching, compression, latency tolerance techniques for memory
* Memory power and energy management techniques
* Memory reliability management techniques
Software, hardware, and hybrid approaches are encouraged. In addition, we solicit papers from practitioners describing problems and experiences with memory performance and correctness in specific application domains.
Submission Guidelines: We encourage the submission of not-fully-polished but provocative short papers (6--8 pages; 8 pages maximum) or position abstracts (1--2 pages; 2 pages maximum). Paper submissions should use standard ACM SIGPLAN conference format (10pt). Copies of accepted papers will be made available at the workshop and published in the ACM digital library. Submitted papers must not be simultaneously under review for any other conference or journal, and authors should point out any substantial overlap with their previously published or currently submitted work.
General Chair: Lixin Zhang, ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Program Chair: Onur Mutlu, Carnegie Mellon University
Program Committee: Rajeev Balasubramonian, Utah Emery Berger, UMass Amherst John Carter, IBM Research Jichuan Chang, HP Labs Andrew Chien, Chicago Trishul Chilimbi, Microsoft Research Cliff Click, Azul Systems Eiman Ebrahimi, UT-Austin Mattan Erez, UT-Austin Eugene Gorbatov, Intel Nikos Hardavellas, Northwestern Marice Herlihy, Brown Brian Hirano, Oracle Hillery Hunter, IBM Research Jim Larus, Microsoft Research Alvy Lebeck, Duke Thomas Moscibroda, Microsoft Research Naveen Muralimanohar, HP Labs Satish Narayanasamy, Michigan Erez Petrank, Technion Moinuddin Qureshi, Georgia Tech Xipeng Shen, William and Mary Osman Unsal, BSC Chris Wilkerson, Intel Ben Zorn, Microsoft Research
Steering Committee: Emery Berger, UMass Amherst Brad Chen, Google Trishul Chilimbi, Microsoft Research Chen Ding, Rochester Madan Musuvathi, Microsoft Research Xipeng Shen, College of William & Mary Jeffrey S. Vetter, Oak Ridge National Lab & Georgia Tech Ben Zorn, Microsoft Research
Web and Submissions Chairs Chris Fallin, Carnegie Mellon University Vivek Seshadri, Carnegie Mellon University