International Workshop on Innovative Architecture for Future
Generation High-Performance Processors and Systems


Date: March 16-17, 2009

Video conference center 2F
Maui Research & Technology Center
Kihei, Maui, Hawaii



Program Committee

Prof. Atsushi Kubota, Hiroshima City U Japan
Prof. Hironori Nakajo, TUAT Japan
Prof. Peter Kogge, Notre Dame
Prof. Kiyofumi Tanaka, JAIST Japan
Prof. Hans Zima, JPL
Nikil Dutt, UCI
Jose L. Ayala, UCM Spain

Organizing Committee

Organizer: Prof. Kazuki Joe
Finance Chairs: Profs. Nicolau and Joe
Publication Chair: Prof. Veidenbaum

Description

This invited workshop aims to bring together researchers and designers from academia and industry to discuss directions in the development of high-performance, parallel, distributed, and multimedia processors and systems. The workshop invitees are computer architects and compiler, operating system, and application experts. The main goal of the workshop is to discuss future trends in the development of architecture and software systems and to explore the assumptions made by the architects about software systems and by software writers about architecture. The increased complexity in each of these areas calls for increased interaction with researchers from all of the other disciplines to accurately assess the potential directions and future trends in architecture and systems.

The main themes of the workshop are software- and technology-driven and constrained new architectures, compiler/architecture interaction and co-design, and application requirements and characteristics. Both numerical and non-numerical applications, such as database, data mining, Web- and Java-based, and (high-performance) embedded applications, are of interest. In all cases a longer-term view and assessment of the future is of most interest.

This year's special focus is on multi-core systems and ways to explore single-program parallelism on such systems. All aspects of design, compilation, and application design are of interest for both single-chip multi-core processors and multi-processor systems built from such chips and are the 2009 special topics.

Other topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

* All aspects of processor design
* Multi-threaded processors
* Large-scale multiprocessors
* Memory technology and memory hierarchy organization
* Applications and their performance
* Power management
* Embedded system design

The workshop will consist of sessions combining individual presentations with discussion. Presentations will be limited to ~20 min to provide sufficient time for discussion. An ideal presentation will concentrate on trends and future directions in addition to recently obtained results. Speculation is encouraged.

Submission and Publication

The invitees wishing to make a presentation should submit an extended abstract, up to 3 pages, by 2/28/09. Submissions should be electronic in pdf format. The abstracts will be reviewed and printed in the on-site proceedigns.

The final proceedings consisting of full papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press after the meeting. The papers will undergo an additional review process and will be selected for publication in the post-proceedings. Papers will be due by July 1st 2009.
Publication instructions will be distributed by CS Press at a later date.

Participants

Hans Zima
Peter Kogge
Nikil Dutt
Jose L. Ayala
Hironori Nakajo
Atsushi Kubota
Jun Yao
Yasuhiko Nakashima
Kazuhiro Yoshimura
Kiyofumi Tanaka
Nobuyuki Yamasaki
Kazuhiro Yoshimura
Noboru Tanabe
Kazuki Joe

Program

Session 1 (Chair: Prof. Nikil Dutt) 10:00-13:00 Mar 16

"Adaptive Fault Tolerance for Space-Borne Computing" by Hans Zima

"An Energy-Aware Operating System and Software Development Environment for Embedded Systems" by Kiyofumi Tanaka, Hiroki Zushi

"An Instruction Decomposition Method for Reconfigurable Decoders" by Kazuhiro Yoshimura, Takashi Nakada, Yasuhiko Nakashima:

Discussions 1

Lunch (by your own)

Session 2 (Chair: Prof. Hans Zima) 15:00-18:00 Mar 16

"Exploring the Possible Past Futures of a Single Part Type Multi-core PIM Chip" by Peter Kogge

"Real-Time Voltage and Frequency Scaling for Responsive Multithreaded Processor" by Nobuyuki Yamasaki

"Hardware and Software Thermal-Aware Policies in Embedded Processors" by Jose L. Ayala

Discussions 2

Session 3 (Chair: Prof. Jose L.Ayala) 10:00-13:00 Mar 17

"A Stage-Level Recovery Scheme in Scalable Pipeline Modules for High Dependability" by Jun YAO

"Parallelization of FFT on Cell Broadband Engine" by Atsushi Kubota, Kyotaro Haraoka and Toshiaki Kitamura

"An Overview of HomeTownSimulator based on Educational FPGA Systems" by Hironori Nakajo and Shinobu Miwa

Discussions 3

PC meetings

PC meetings will be held on Mar. 15 at the conference place.
Expected attendees will be...

Hans Zima
Peter Kogge
Nikil Dutt
Jose L. Ayala
Hironori Nakajo
Nobuyuki Yamasaki
Kiyofumi Tanaka
Atsushi Kubota
Kazuki Joe

IWIA Steering Committee

Prof. Kazuki Joe
Prof. Alex Nicolau
Prof. Alex Veidenbaum

Travel and Local Arrangements

* Registration fee: US$300.00.
* As for the accomodation, please contact Prof. Kazuki Joe.
* The hotel is not near the airport and there is no shuttle service, althought a taxi can get you there..

Send questions/mail about IWIA to Alex Veidenbaum