Topics of Interest

We solicit papers in all areas related to characterization of computing system workloads. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

Characterization of applications in areas including
- Search engines, e-commerce, web services, databases, file/application servers
- Embedded, mobile, multimedia, real-time, 3D-Graphics, gaming, telepresence
- Life sciences, bioinformatics, scientific computing
- Security, reliability, biometrics

Characterization of OS, Virtual Machine, middleware and library behavior
- Virtual machines, Websphere, .NET, Java VM, databases
- Graphics libraries, scientific libraries

Characterization of system behavior, including
- Operating system and hypervisor effects and overheads
- Effects due to virtualization and dynamic optimization
- Hardware accelerators (GPGPU, XML, crypto, etc)
- Failures, availability, and reliability
- User behavior and system-user interaction
- Instrumentation methodologies for workload verification and characterization
- Techniques for accurate analysis/measurement of production systems
- Implications of workloads in design issues, such as
- Power management, reliability, security, performance
- Processors, memory hierarchy, I/O, and networks

Benchmark creation, analysis, and evaluation issues, including
- Multithreaded benchmarks
- Profiling, trace collection, synthetic traces
- Validation of benchmarks

Abstract modeling of program behavior

Emerging and future workloads
- Transactional memory workloads; workloads for multi/many-core systems
- Stream-based computing workloads; web2.0/internet workloads


For further information, please contact the General or Program Chairs:

General Chairs
David Christie, AMD (david.christie @ amd.com )
Alan Lee, AMD ( alan.lee @ amd.com )

Program Chairs

Onur Mutlu, Microsoft Research
Ben Zorn, Microsoft Research