ISCA TECHNICAL PROGRAM: (July 2 – July 4)

Monday, July 2, 2001

8:45 AM – 10:15 AM
PLENARY SESSION
Opening Remarks
Keynote Speech: Greg Papadopoulos, CTO, Sun Microsystems Inc., U.S.A.
10:45 AM - 12:15 noon
SESSION 1
MULTITHREADING AND SPECULATION
Chair: Mateo Valero,  Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
  • Execution-based Prediction Using Speculative Slices, Craig Zilles and Gurindar Sohi (University of Wisconsin-Madison). (pdf)
  • Speculative Precomputation: Long-range Prefetching of Delinquent Loads, Jamison D Collins (UC San Diego), Hong Wang (MRL, Intel), Dean M Tullsen (UC San Diego), Christopher J Hughes (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Yong-fong Lee (MSL, Intel), Dan Lavery (MSL, Intel), John P. Shen (MRL, Intel).
  • Dynamically Allocating Processor Resources Between Nearby and Distant ILP, Rajeev Balasubramonian, Sandhya Dwarkadas, and David Albonesi (University of Rochester). (ps)
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    13:45 PM – 15:15 PM
    SESSION 2
    MEMORY SYSTEM ISSUES
    Chair: Mark D. Hill, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Tolerating Memory Latency through Software-Controlled Pre-Execution in Simultaneous Multithreading Processors, Chi-Keung Luk (Compaq). (ps.gz)
  • Data Prefetching by Dependence Graph Precomputation, Murali M Annavaram, Jignesh M Patel, and Edward S Davidson (University of Michigan). (ps)
  • Concurrency, Latency, or System Overhead: Which Has the Largest Impact on Uniprocessor DRAM-System Performance?, Vinodh Cuppu and BruceJacob (University of Maryland). (pdf)
  • 15:45 PM – 17:15 PM
    SESSION 3
    PROCESSOR ARCHITECTURE
    Chair: Dean Tullsen, University of California at San Diego
  • Focusing Processor Policies via Critical-Path Prediction, Brian A Fields, Shai Rubin and Rastislav Bodik (University of Wisconsin-Madison). (pdf)
  • Automated Design of Finite State Machine Predictors for Customized Processors, Timothy Sherwood and Brad Calder (University of California San Diego).
  • Better Exploration of Region-Level Value Locality with Integrated Computation Reuse and Value Prediction, Youfeng Wu, Dong-Yuan Chen, and Jesse Fang (MRL, Intel).
  • ACM SIGARCH AND IEEE CS TCCA BUSINESS MEETING
    RECEPTION AT THE CITY HALL

    Tuesday, July 3, 2001

    9:00 AM – 10:00 AM
    SESSION 4
    COMMUNICATION SUPPORT
    Chair: Josep Torrellas, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
  • CryptoManiac: A Fast Flexible Architecture for Secure Communication, Lisa Wu, Chris Weaver, and Todd Austin (University of Michigan).
  • QoS Provisioning in Clusters: An Investigation of Router and NIC Design, Ki H. Yum, Eun J. Kim, and Chita R. Das (Pennsylvania State University). (ps)
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
    SESSION 5
    CACHE MANAGEMENT
    Chair: Doug Burger, University of Texas at Austin
  • Locality vs. Criticality, Srikanth T Srinivasan (Duke University), Roy Dz-ching Ju(MRL, Intel), Alvin R Lebeck (Duke University), and Chris Wilkerson (MRL, Intel). (ps)
  • Dead-Block Prediction & Dead-Block Correlating Prefetchers, An-Chow Lai (Purdue University), Cem Fide (Sun Microsystems), and Babak Falsafi (Carnegie Mellon University). (pdf)
  • Code Layout Optimizations for Transaction Processing Workloads, Alex Ramirez (UPC, Spain), Luiz Andre Barroso (Compaq WRL), Kourosh Gharachorloo (Compaq WRL), Robert Cohn (Compaq), Josep Larriba-Pey (UPC, Spain), Geoff Lowney (Compaq), and Mateo Valero (UPC, Spain).
  • 12:00 PM – 14:00 PM
    AWARD LUNCHEON
    14:00 PM – 15:00 PM
    SESSION 6A
    ARCHITECTURAL IMPACT OF EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
    Chair: Bill Dally, Stanford University
  • Exploring and Exploiting Wire-Level Pipelining in Emerging Technologies, Michael Niemier and Peter Kogge (University of Notre Dame) (ps).
  • NanoFabrics: Spatial Computing Using Molecular Electronics, Seth Copen Goldstein, and Mihai Budiu (Carnegie Mellon University). (pdf)
  • 14:00 PM – 15:00 PM
    SESSION 6B
    SHARED-MEMORY MULTIPROCESSORS
    Chair: Faye' Briggs, Intel
  • A Simple Method for Extracting Models from Protocol Code, David J Lie, Andy Chou, Dawson Engler, and David Dill (Stanford University).
  • Removing Architectural Bottlenecks to the Scalability of Speculative Parallelization, Milos Prvulovic (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Maria Jesus Garzaran (Universidad de Zaragoza), Lawrence Rauchwerger (Texas A&M University), and Josep Torrellas (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). (ps)
  • EXCURSION & BANQUET

    Wednesday, July 4, 2001

    8:30 AM – 10:00 AM
    SESSION 7
    ENERGY-EFFECTIVE DESIGNS
    Chair: Fredrik Dahlgren, Ericsson, Sweden
  • Power and Energy Reduction Via Pipeline Balancing, R. Iris Bahar (Brown University & Compaq) and Srilatha Manne (Compaq). (ps.gz)
  • Energy-Effective Issue Logic, Daniele Folegnani and Antonio Gonzalez (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain). (pdf)
  • Cache Decay: Exploiting Generational Behavior to Reduce Leakage Power, Stefanos Kaxiras (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies), Zhigang Hu (Princeton University), and Margaret Martonosi (Princeton University). (ps)
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
    SESSION 8
    PERFORMANCE TOOLS AND EVALUATIONS
    Chair: Susan Eggers, University of Washington
  • Variability in the Execution of Multimedia Applications and Implications for General-Purpose Architectures, Christopher J. Hughes, Praful Kaul, Sarita Adve, Rohit Jain, Chanik Park, and Jayanth Srinivasan (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). (ps) (pdf)
  • Measuring Experimental Error in Microprocessor Simulation, Rajagopalan Desikan, Doug Burger, and Stephen W Keckler (University of Texas at Austin). (ps)  (pdf)
  • Rapid Profiling via Stratified Sampling, Subramanya Sastry, Rastislav Bodik, and James Smith (University of Wisconsin-Madison). (ps)
  • ADJOURN