Call for Papers

                   CALL FOR PAPERS: MICRO 2012

The 45th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture, 2012

                        December 1 - 5, 2012

              http://www.microsymposia.org/micro45/
  
        Abstract deadline: June 1, 2012 (11:59pm EDT)
        Paper deadline:    June 8, 2012 (11:59pm EDT)
        Rebuttal period:   Aug 12 - 15, 2012
        Notification:      Sept 1, 2012

The International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO) is the premier forum for presentation and discussion of new ideas in microarchitecture, compilers, hardware/software interfaces, and design of advanced computing and communication systems. The goal of MICRO is to bring together researchers in the fields of microarchitecture, compilers, and systems for technical exchange. The MICRO community has enjoyed having close interaction between academic researchers and industrial designers – we aim to continue and strengthen this longstanding tradition at the 45th MICRO in Vancouver.

We invite original paper submissions related to but not limited to the following:

• Hardware, software, and hybrid techniques for improving system performance, energy-efficiency, cost, complexity, predictability, quality of service, reliability, dependability, security, scalability, programmer productivity, etc.
• Processor, memory, storage, interconnect designs
• Architectures for instruction-level, thread-level, and memory-level parallelism: superscalar, VLIW, data-parallel, multithreaded, multicore, manycore, etc.
• Compiler and microarchitectural techniques for parallelism (ILP, TLP, MLP)
• Low-power, high-performance, and cost/complexity-efficient architectures
• Dynamic optimization, emulation, and object code translation
• Architectures for emerging platforms, including smartphones, tablets, cloud/datacenter, etc.
• Architectures and compilers for embedded processors, DSPs, GPUs, ASIPs (network processors, multimedia, wireless, etc.)
• Advanced software/hardware speculation and prediction schemes
• Microarchitecture techniques to better support system software, programming languages, programmability, and compilation
• Microarchitecture modeling and simulation
• Insightful experimental and comparative evaluation and analysis of existing microarchitectures, hardware/software mechanisms and workloads

Submissions should follow the guidelines and formatting rules specified on the conference website. Papers that violate these guidelines and rules may be returned to author(s) without review.

                      ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

General Chair: Stephen Melvin, Consultant

Program Chair: Onur Mutlu, Carnegie Mellon University

Program Committee: Tor Aamodt, British Columbia David Albonesi, Cornell Krste Asanovic, Berkeley Todd Austin, Michigan Rajeev Balasubramonian, Utah Richard Belgard, Consultant Pradip Bose, IBM David Brooks, Harvard Douglas Carmean, Intel Derek Chiou, UT Austin Robert Colwell, DARPA Tom Conte, Georgia Tech Chita Das, Penn State Michel Dubois, USC Evelyn Duesterwald, IBM Lieven Eeckhout, Ghent University Boris Grot, EPFL Nikos Hardavellas, Northwestern James Hoe, CMU Wen-mei Hwu, Illinois Engin Ipek, Rochester Daniel Jimenez, UT San Antonio Hyesoon Kim, Georgia Tech Konrad Lai, Intel Gabriel Loh, AMD Ahmed Louri, NSF and Arizona Scott Mahlke, Michigan Srilatha Manne, AMD Andreas Moshovos, Toronto Trevor Mudge, Michigan Yale Patt, UT Austin Milos Prvulovic, Georgia Tech Moinuddin Qureshi, Georgia Tech Ronny Ronen, Intel Yanos Sazeides, Cyprus Michael Schlansker, HP Labs Andre Seznec, IRISA/INRIA Michael Shebanow, Nvidia Burton Smith, Microsoft Jared Smolens, Oracle Viji Srinivasan, IBM Chris Wilkerson, Intel Yuanyuan Zhou, UCSD Craig Zilles, Illinois

Tutorials and Workshops Chair: Derek Chiou, UT Austin

Finance Chair: Tor Aamodt, British Columbia

Web and Submissions Chairs: Chris Fallin, Carnegie Mellon University Justin Meza, Carnegie Mellon University Vivek Seshadri, Carnegie Mellon University

Steering Committee: David Albonesi, Cornell Richard Belgard, Consultant (Chair) Tom Conte, Georgia Tech Kemal Ebcioglu, Global Supercomputing Paolo Faraboschi, HP Labs Wen-mei Hwu, Illinois Scott Mahlke, Michigan Margaret Martonosi, Princeton Bill Mangione-Smith, Consultant Yale Patt, UT Austin Milos Prvulovic, Georgia Tech