Program

Saturday June 2, 2018 (Day 1)

Morning ASBD (W1) HASP (W2) CARRV (W3) MIPSfpga (T1) Quantum Computing (T2) Accelerating Big Data (T3) rCUDA (T4) AMD gem5 (T5)
Afternoon Grand Challenges QC (T6) Runtimes in the Cloud (T7) Reverse-Engineering the Brain (T8) Soft Error (T9)

Sunday June 3, 2018 (Day 2)

Morning AIDArc (W4) CVP (W5) AIoTAS (W6) MAERI (T10) Energy Efficient Computing (T11) Labeled von Neumann Arch (T12) FPGA (T13)
Afternoon Bias Busting (W8)

Workshops

W1: The Eighth Workshop on Architectures and Systems for Big Data (ASBD 2018)
Time: 8:30am-12pm Room: Lincoln Heights
W2: Hardware and Architectural Support for Security and Privacy (HASP) 2018
Time: 8:45am - 3:30pm Room: Ladera Heights
W3: Second Workshop on Computer Architecture Research with RISC-V (CARRV 2018)
Time: 8:30am - 3:30pm Room: Boyle Heights
W4: 1st International Workshop on AI-assisted Design for Architecture (AIDArc)
Time: 8:30am - 12:00pm Room: Hancock Park
W5: 1st Championship Value Prediction (CVP-1)
Time: 8:30am - 12:00pm Room: Ladera Heights
W6: 2nd Workshop on Advances in IoT Architecture and Systems (AIoTAS)
Time: 9:00am - 12:00pm Room: Westwood
W8: Bias Busting @ ISCA (Sponsored by Google)

The Computer Architecture community greatly benefits from being comprised of researchers, developers and practitioners from diverse backgrounds and experiences. Maximizing the benefits and richness of ideas that come from engaging and harnessing the valuable perspectives from all members of our diverse technical community is achieved only with inclusive practices and behaviors by all. Unconscious (or implicit) bias is believed to be a significant factor that inhibits inclusivity and acts to stall or even thwart important efforts for increasing and celebrating diversity. Everyone has implicit or unconscious biases, and because they are unconscious, we are unaware of them. In this workshop, the first of its kind at ISCA, the basis of implicit bias is presented and effective tools for increasing awareness and mitigation of its unwanted effects are provided. This important workshop is useful to every ISCA participant—bystanders and advocates alike—who can intervene and effectively bust implicit bias when it occurs, either in themselves or in others.

Sponsored by Google and free (at no cost) for all conference/workshop/tutorial attendees.
Time: 1:00pm - 5:15pm Room: Silver Lake

Tutorials

T1: Teaching Computer Architecture using MIPSfpga v2.0
Time: 8:00am - 6:00pm Room: Beverlywood
T2: Tutorial on Quantum Computing
Time: 8:30am - 12:00pm Room: Hancock Park
T3: Accelerating Big Data Processing and Associated Deep Learning on Datacenters with Modern Architectures
Time: 8:00am - 12:00pm Room: Echo Park
T4: rCUDA: A Middleware for Increasing the Benefits of Using GPUs in Datacenters
Time: 8:00am - 12:00pm Room: Glassell Park
T5: The Updated AMD gem5 APU Simulator: Modeling GPUs Using the Machine ISA
Time: 8:00am - 12:00pm Room: Westwood
T6: Introduction to Grand Challenges and Research Tools for Quantum Computing
Time: 1:00pm - 5:30pm Room: Echo Park
T7: Runtimes in the Cloud
Time: 1:30pm - 5:10pm Room: Westwood
T8: Reverse-Engineering the Brain: A Computer Architecture Grand Challenge
Time: 1:30pm - 5:30pm Room: Hancock Park
T9: Research Frameworks and Methodologies for Understanding the Soft Error Vulnerability, Reliability, and Resilience of Modern Architectures
Time: 1:30pm - 6:00pm Room: Glassell Park
T10: MAERI: An Open Source Framework for Generating Modular DNN Accelerators supporting Flexible Dataflow
Time: 8:30am - 12:00pm Room: Westwood
T11: Energy Efficient Computing in Multicore CPUs: Design Margins and Variability
Time: 8:30am - 12:00pm Room: Lincoln Heights
T12: The case for Labeled von Neumann Architecture (LvNA)
Time: 8:20am - 12:00pm Room: Beverlywood
T13: FPGA-based Accelerated Cloud Computing with AWS EC2 F1 and SDAccel
Time: 8:30am - 12:30pm Room: Echo Park

Important Info

Friday June 1, 2018

3:00pm - 7:00pm Registration Desk (6th floor foyer area)

Saturday June 2, 2018

7:00am - 6:00pm Registration Desk (Hollywood Ballroom Foyer)
7:15am - 8:30am Continental Breakfast (Hollywood Ballroom)
10:00am - 10:30am Coffee Break (K-Town and Hancock Park Foyer)
12:00pm - 1:30pm Lunch Break (Hollywood Ballroom)
3:30pm - 4:00pm Coffee Break (K-Town and Hancock Park Foyer)

Sunday June 3, 2018

7:00am - 7:00pm Registration Desk (Hollywood Ballroom Foyer)
7:15am - 8:30am Continental Breakfast (Hollywood Ballroom)
10:00am - 10:30am Coffee Break (K-Town and Hancock Park Foyer)
12:00pm - 1:30pm Lunch Break (Hollywood Ballroom)
3:30pm - 4:00pm Coffee Break (K-Town and Hancock Park Foyer)