MSPC 2008

MSPC 2008 (Memory Systems Performance & Correctness), to be co-located with ASPLOS 2008,  is radically
changing its format. We're getting away from the conference style to make for a more interactive, "HotOS"
style of workshop. As part of this change, we are encouraging people to submit edgy, unpolished but provocative
short position papers (around 6 pages) or position abstracts (1-2 pages). We have expressly moved to this format
to ensure that publication at MSPC will not preclude later conference publication. The position abstracts will be
unpublished and copies will be distributed at the workshop. Submissions will be due on November 6th, and
we hope to see lots of submissions from this community.
 
Thanks,
-- Emery
 
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The 2008 ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Memory Systems Performance & Correctness
(MSPC 2008)
2 March 2008 - Seattle, Washington USA
Co-located with ASPLOS 2008
http://www.cs.umass.edu/MSPC08 <https://zor.cs.umass.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=https://zor.cs.umass.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.cs.umass.edu/MSPC08> 


Call for Papers

OVERVIEW  As CPUs rely increasingly on parallelism rather than
frequency to improve performance, the memory system emerges as the
fundamental barrier to continued improvement in system-level
performance. Previous tactics like increasing cache size and
associativity become less and less relevant in a world where NUMA
memory behaviors and inter-processor contention dominate application
performance. MSPC is a forum for exploring these emerging
challenges. This multi-disciplinary workshop fosters collaboration
among researchers in compilers, programming languages, architecture,
operating systems and adjacent specialties. We welcome position papers
on all aspects of memory system performance and correctness. Areas of
interest include but are not limited to the following topics:

* Analysis of memory systems performance, including power, bandwidth,
  and latency
* Static and dynamic techniques for understanding and improving memory
  performance
* Hardware and software techniques for ensuring memory safety and
  detecting memory-related bugs
* Hardware memory models and their impact on software
* Transactional memory and other new programming models for expressing
  parallelism
* Managed memory and garbage collection technologies
* Memory hierarchy design for chip multiprocessors (CMPs)
* Understanding and improving OS subsystems such as page placement and
  scheduling
* Exploitation of new storage technologies such as non-volatile memory

WORKSHOP FORMAT  MSPC 2008 is adopting a new format to encourage
exploration of the most disruptive problems and the most radical
solutions in the space. Towards this end we encourage submissions in
two formats:
* Position papers may present preliminary experimental results, new
  analysis of previous experiments, emerging technical challenges, or
  experiences and opportunities in the context of real-world systems.
* Position abstracts should clearly state a position and the related
  experience or course of action as relevant to MSPC.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES  Position papers should not exceed six
pages. Typical abstracts will be one or two pages in length. Minimum
font size is 10 point for all submissions. Papers should be submitted
electronically through the workshop web site
(http://www.cs.umass.edu/MSPC08 <https://zor.cs.umass.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=https://zor.cs.umass.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.cs.umass.edu/MSPC08> ). Accepted papers and abstracts will
be made available as hard copy at the workshop.  Position papers will
be published in the ACM Digital Library.

Key Information
* Submissions due: 6 November 2007, at 11:59:59 PM Eastern time
* Notification: 21 December 2007
* Final papers due: 28 January 2008
* Workshop Web Site: http://www.cs.umass.edu/MSPC08 <https://zor.cs.umass.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=https://zor.cs.umass.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.cs.umass.edu/MSPC08> 

Organizing Committee
General Chair   Emery Berger,  University of Massachusetts Amherst
Program Chair   Brad Chen, Google
Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai, Intel
Emery Berger, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Cliff Click, Azul Systems
Bruce Jacob, University of Maryland
Jeremy Manson, Google
Sally McKee, Cornell University
Trevor Mudge, University of Michigan
Onur Mutlu, Microsoft Research
Erez Petrank, Technion
Valentina Salapura, IBM Research
Michael Swift, University of Wisconsin

 
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Emery Berger
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Massachusetts Amherst
http://www.cs.umass.edu/~emery <https://zor.cs.umass.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.cs.umass.edu/~emery>