MICRO – 36 Final Program

 

Monday, December  1, 2003

 

5th Workshop on Media and Streaming Processors (MSP)

Vipin Chaudhary, Wayne State University; Alex Dean, North Carolina State University; Jason Fritts, Washington University

3rd Workshop on Power-Aware Computer Systems (PACS)

Babak Falsafi, Carnegie Mellon University; T. N. Vijaykumar, Purdue University

Morning Tutorial: Challenges in Embedded Computing

Wayne Wolf, Princeton University; Rajesh Gupta, University of California - San Diego.

Afternoon Tutorial: Open Research Compiler for Itanium Processor Family

Roy Ju, Intel. 

 

Tuesday, December  2, 2003

 

2nd Workshop on Application Specific Processors (WASP)

Alex Orailoglu, University of California - San Diego.

Morning Tutorial: Microarchitecture-Level Power-Performance Simulators: Modeling, Validation, and Impact on Design

Zhigang Hu, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center; David Brooks, Harvard University; Pradip Bose, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center.

Morning Tutorial: Network Processors

David Sonnier, Agere Systems.

Afternoon Tutorial: Architectural Exploration with Liberty

David August, Princeton University.

 

Wednesday, December  3, 2003

 

8:00 – 8:10

Welcome

8:10 – 9:10

Keynote Speaker 1

9:10 – 9:30

Break

9:30 – 11:00

Session 1: Voltage Scaling & Transient Faults

11:00 – 11:30

Break

11:30 – 1:00

Session 2: Cache Design

1:00 – 2:30

Lunch

2:30 – 4:30

Session 3: Power and Energy Efficient Architectures

4:30 – 5:00

Break

5:00 – 6:30

Session 4: Application-Specific Optimization and Analysis

6:45

Dinner Cruise

 

Thursday, December  4, 2003

 

8:00 – 9:00

Keynote Speaker 2

9:00 – 9:30

Break

9:30 – 11:00

Session 5: Dynamic Optimization Systems

11:00 – 11:30

Break

11:30 – 1:00

Session 6: Dynamic Program Analysis and Optimization

1:00 – 2:30

Lunch

2:30 – 4:30

Session 7: Branch, Value, and Scheduling Optimization

4:30 – 5:00

Break

5:00 – 7:00

Session 8: Dataflow, Data Parallel, and Clustered Architectures

10:00

Business Meeting

 

Friday, December  5, 2003

 

8:00 – 10:00

Session 9: Secure and Network Processors

10:00 – 10:30

Break

10:30 – 12:30

Session 10: Scaling Design

 

 

Keynote Speaker 1

 

Chair: Sanjay Patel, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

Microarchitecture on the MOSFET Diet

Kerry Bernstein

IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

 

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Session 1: Voltage Scaling & Transient Faults

 

Chair: Antonio González, UPC - Barcelona and Intel Labs

 

Razor: A Low-Power Pipeline Based on Circuit-Level Timing Speculation

Dan Ernst, Nam Sung Kim, Sanjay Pant, Shidhartha Das, Rajeev Rao, Toan Pham, Conrad Ziesler, David Blaauw, Todd Austin, University of Michigan; Krisztian Flautner, ARM Ltd.; Trevor Mudge, University of Michigan.

 

VSV: L2-Miss-Driven Variable Supply-Voltage Scaling for Low Power

Hai Li, Chen-Yong Cher, T. N. Vijaykumar, Kaushik Roy, Purdue.

 

A Systematic Methodology to Compute the Architectural Vulnerability Factors for a High-Performance Microprocessor

Shubhendu S. Mukherjee, Christopher T. Weaver, Joel Emer, Intel Corporation; Steven K. Reinhardt, Intel Corporation and University of Michigan; Todd Austin, University of Michigan.

 

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Session 2: Cache Design

 

Chair: Josep Torrellas, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

TLC: Transmission Line Caches

Bradford M. Beckmann, David A. Wood, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

 

Distance Associativity for High-Performance Energy-Efficient, Non-Uniform Cache Architectures

Zeshan Chishti, Michael D. Powell, T. N. Vijaykumar, Purdue.  

 

Near-Optimal Precharging in High-Performance Nanoscale CMOS Caches

Se-Hyun Yang, Babak Falsafi, Carnegie Mellon University.

 

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Session 3: Power and Energy Efficient Architectures

 

Chair: Todd Austin, University of Michigan

 

Single-ISA Heterogeneous Multi-Core Architectures: The Potential for Processor Power Reduction

Rakesh Kumar, UCSD; Keith Farkas, Norman Jouppi, Partha Ranganathan, HP Labs; Dean Tullsen, UCSD.

 

Run-time Power Monitoring in High-End Processors: Methodology and Empirical Data

Canturk Isci, Margaret Martonosi, Princeton University.  

 

Power-driven Design of Router Microarchitectures in On-chip Networks

Hangsheng Wang, Li-Shiuan Peh, Sharad Malik, Department of Electrical Engineering - Princeton University.

 

Optimum Power/Performance Pipeline Depth

Allan Hartstein, Thomas R. Puzak, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center.

 

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Session 4: Application-Specific Optimization and Analysis

 

Chair: Kemal Ebcioğlu, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

 

Processor Acceleration through Automated Instruction Set Customization 

Nathan Clark, Hongtao Zhong, Scott Mahlke, University of Michigan.

 

The Reconfigurable Streaming Vector Processor (RSVPä)

Silviu Ciricescu, Ray Essick, Brian Lucas, Phil May, Kent Moat, Jim Norris, Michael Schuette, Motorola Labs; Ali Saidi, The Mitre Corporation.

 

Scaling and Characterizing Database Workloads: Bridging the Gap between Research and Practice

Richard Hankins, Trung Diep, Murali Annavaram, Intel; Brian Hirano, Harald Eri, Oracle; Hubert Nueckel, John Shen, Intel.

 

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Keynote Speaker 2

 

Chair: Scott Mahlke, University of Michigan

 

In Memory of Bob Rau

Micheal Schlansker

Hewlett-Packard Laboratories

 

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Session 5: Dynamic Optimization Systems

 

Chair: Ronny Ronen, Intel

 

Generational Cache Management of Code Traces in Dynamic Optimization Systems

Kim Hazelwood, Michael D. Smith, Harvard University.

 

The Performance of Runtime Data Cache Prefetching in a Dynamic Optimization System

Jiwei Lu, Howard Chen, Rao Fu, Wei-Chung Hsu, Bobbie Othmer, Pen-Chung Yew, Univ. of Minnesota - Twin Cities; Dong-Yuan Chen, Intel.

 

IA-32 Execution Layer: a two phase dynamic translator designed to support IA-32 applications on Itaniumâ-based systems

Leonid Baraz, Tevi Devor, Orna Etzion, Shalom Goldenberg, Alex Skaletsky, Yun Wang, Yigal Zemach, Intel.

 

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Session 6: Dynamic Program Analysis and Optimization

 

Chair: John Shen, Intel

 

LLVA: A Low-level Virtual Instruction Set Architecture

Vikram Adve, Chris Lattner, Michael Brukman, Anand Shukla, Brian Gaeke, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

 

Comparing Program Phase Detection Techniques

Ashutosh S. Dhodapkar, James E. Smith, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

 

Using Interaction Costs for Microarchitectural Bottleneck Analysis

Brian A. Fields, Rastislav Bodik, University of California-Berkeley; Mark D. Hill, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Chris J. Newburn, Intel.

 

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Session 7: Branch, Value, and Scheduling Optimizations

 

Chair: Glenn Reinman, University of California-Los Angeles  

 

Fast Path-Based Neural Branch Prediction

Daniel A. Jiménez, Rutgers University.

 

Hardware Support for Control Transfers in Code Caches

Ho-Seop Kim, James E. Smith, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

 

Exploiting Value Locality in Physical Register Files

Saisanthosh Balakrishnan, Gurindar S. Sohi, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

 

Macro-op Scheduling: Relaxing Scheduling Loop Constraints

Ilhyun Kim, Mikko H. Lipasti, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

 

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Session 8:  Dataflow, Data Parallel, and Clustered Architectures

 

Chair: Matt Farrens, University of California-Davis  

 

WaveScalar

Steven Swanson, Ken Michelson, Andrew Schwerin, Mark Oskin, University of Washington.

 

Universal Mechanisms for Data Parallel Architectures

Karthikeyan Sankaralingam, Stephen W. Keckler, William R. Mark, Doug Burger, University of Texas - Austin.

 

Flexible Compiler-Managed L0 Buffers for Clustered VLIW Processors

Enric Gibert, UPC - Barcelona; Jesús Sánchez, Antonio González, UPC - Barcelona and Intel Labs - Barcelona.

 

Instruction Replication for Clustered Architectures 

Alex Aletŕ, Josep M. Codina, UPC - Barcelona; Antonio González, UPC - Barcelona and Intel Labs - Barcelona; David Kaeli, Northeastern University.

 

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Session 9: Secure and Network Processors

 

Chair: T. N. Vijaykumar, Purdue

 

Efficient Memory Integrity Verification and Encryption for Secure Processor

G. Edward Suh, Dwaine Clarke, Blaise Gassend, MIT; Marten van Dijk, Philips; Srinivas Devadas, MIT.

 

Fast Secure Processor for Inhibiting Software Piracy and Tampering

Jun Yang, University of California-Riverside;Youtao Zhang, University of Texas-Dallas; Lan Gao, University of California-Riverside.

 

IPStash: A Power-Efficient Memory Architecture for IP Lookup

Stefanos Kaxiras, Agere Systems; Georgios Keramidas, Department of ECE - Univ. of Patras.

 

Design and Implementation of High-Performance Memory Systems for Future Packet Buffers

Jorge Garcia, Jesus Corbal, Llorenç Cerdŕ, Mateo Valero, UPC - Barcelona.

 

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Session 10: Scaling Design

 

Chair: Mikko Lipasti, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

 

Beating In-Order Stalls with "Flea-Flicker" Two-Pass Pipelining

Ronald D. Barnes, Erik M. Nystrom, John W. Sias, Sanjay J. Patel, Nacho Navarro, Wen-mei W. Hwu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

 

Scalable Hardware Memory Disambiguation for High ILP Processors

Simha Sethumadhavan, Department of Computer Sciences - UT Austin; Rajagopalan Desikan, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering - UT Austin; Doug Burger, Charles R. Moore, Stephen W. Keckler, Department of Computer Sciences - UT Austin.

 

Reducing Design Complexity of the Load/Store Queue

Il Park, Chong Liang Ooi, T. N. Vijaykumar, Purdue.

 

Checkpoint Processing and Recovery: Towards Scalable Large Instruction Window Processors

Haitham Akkary, Ravi Rajwar, Srikanth T. Srinivasan, Intel.

 

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