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
o Search engines, e-commerce, web services, databases, file/application servers
o Embedded, mobile, multimedia, real-time, 3D-Graphics, gaming, telepresence
o Life sciences, bioinformatics, scientific computing, finance, forecasting
o Security, reliability, biometrics
o Grid and Could computing
* Characterization of OS, Virtual Machine, middleware and library behavior
o Virtual machines, Websphere, .NET, Java VM, databases
o Graphics libraries, scientific libraries
* Characterization of system behavior, including
o Operating system and hypervisor effects and overheads
o Effects due to virtualization and dynamic optimization
o Hardware accelerators (GPGPU, XML, crypto, etc)
o Failures, availability, and reliability
o User behavior and system-user interaction
o Instrumentation methodologies for workload verification and characterization
o Techniques for accurate analysis/measurement of production systems
* Implications of workloads in design issues, such as
o Power management, reliability, security, performance
o Processors, memory hierarchy, I/O, and networks
* Benchmark creation, analysis, and evaluation issues, including
o Multithreaded benchmarks, benchmark cloning
o Profiling, trace collection, synthetic traces
o Validation of benchmarks
* Analytical and abstract modeling of program behavior and systems
* Emerging and future workloads
o Transactional memory workloads; workloads for multi/many-core systems
o Stream-based computing workloads; web2.0/internet workloads