held in conjunction with the
IMPORTANT CHANGE: Sunday, June 22, 8:45 AM - 12:30 PM
San Francisco Bay Area USA
Optimization techniques that exploit run-time behavior and information have become vitally important to modern computer systems. A number of hardware techniques rely on instruction traces, including value reuse based on traces and trace caches which improve the effective bandwidth of instruction fetch. Traces are also at the heart of many software dynamic tanslation systems, including dynamic optimizers and binary translators, which apply code improvements across traces. With the increasing importance of trace techniques to both hardware and software, there is a tremendous need and exciting opportunity for research in new techniques and uses for instruction traces. This workshop solicits papers that report new results on the unique opportunities, challenges and benefits of hardware and software optimization with traces. The topics of interest include but are not limited to:
Accepted papers will be published in a digest of papers to be distributed at the workshop. Electronic submission of papers is required. Papers may be submitted by e-mail to one of the workshop organizers below. The deadline for submissions is May 12, 2003.
Papers should be at most 10 pages in 10-point type and two columns. Papers must be formatted in US Letter page size (8.5 x 11.0"). Adobe PDF is preferred for submission; however, Postscript is acceptable. Papers must be viewable with Adobe Acrobat 3.0 or Ghostscript. Please be sure that all necessary fonts are embedded in the PDF or postscript file.
In order to guarantee that the Workshop will take place, each accepted paper must be supported by the registration of at least one of its authors. If you intend to submit a paper to this workshop please send a message to the organizers, this would be a big help in the reviewing process."
May 12 - Papers due - NOW EXTENDED
TO THURSDAY, MAY 15
May 23 - Author notification
June 6 - Camera ready papers
due
June 22 - Workshop at ICS'03
Papers may be submitted by e-mail to one of the workshop organizers, childers@cs.pitt.edu or felipe@cos.ufrj.br.
Bruce Childers (childers@cs.pitt.edu),
Univ. of Pittsburgh, USA
Felipe M. G. Franca (felipe@cos.ufrj.br), COPPE-UFRJ,Brazil
Erik Altman, IBM
Tom Conte, North Carolina State University
Amarildo T. Costa, IME-RJ, Brazil
Eliseu M. Chaves Filho, Morphotech
Michael Hind, IBM
David Kaeli, Northeastern University
Sally McKee, Cornell
Philippe O. A. Navaux, UFRGS, Brazil
Vinod E. F. Rebello, UFF, Brazil
Mary Lou Soffa, University of Pittsburgh
Alberto De Souza, UFES, Brazil
Bronis de Supinski, LLNL