From: steve@austin.ibm.com (Steve White)
Newsgroups: comp.org.acm
Subject: ASPLOS V conference
Date: 28 Aug 92 21:18:51 GMT
Organization: IBM Austin
Originator: steve@hwperform.austin.ibm.com


  

                          ADVANCE PROGRAM
                    Fifth International Conference
                     on Architectural Support for
                        Programming Languages
                        and Operating Systems

                        October 12-15, 1992
                       Boston, Massachusetts

            SIGARCH     Sponsored by the ACM    TC MM
            SIGPLAN     in cooperation with the TC VLSI
             SIGOPS     IEEE Computer Society   TC OS

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Monday, October 12
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Tutorial I:
High-Performance Shared Memory: Implementation Issues and
Consistency Models,
Sarita V. Adve and Mark D. Hill, Unviersity of Wisconsin-Madison

   Implementation options for high-performance shared-memory will
   be surveyed, including program sharing patterns (e.g., read-mostly
   and migratory), reducing memory latency with cache coherence
   (e.g., by snooping, directories or software), tolerating memory la-
   tencies with prefetching or multiple contexts. Hardware shared
   memory systems will be contrasted with shared virtual memory sys-
   tems. Theoretical and practical issues regarding memory consis-
   tency models will be explored, including the performance potential
   and ease-of-use aspects of sequential consistency and several
   weaker models (e.g., processor consistency, weak ordering, release
   consistency, and SPARC's TSO and PSO).

Tutorial II:
Instruction-Level Parallel Processing: Superscalar Processor Design,
John Paul Shen, Carnegie Mellon University

   This tutorial presents the hardware and software techniques for su-
   perscalar processor design. Topics covered include: superpipelined,
   superscalar, supersymmetric and VLIW machines; limits of instruc-
   tion-level parallelism (ILP); dynamic techniques for detecting and
   resolving data and control dependencies (e.g. scoreboarding, register
   renaming, load bypassing and forwarding, branch prediction, and
   out-of-order/speculative execution); static techniques for depen-
   dency resolution (e.g. instruction boosting, and instruction schedul-
   ing for predicated/speculative execution); and recent quantitative
   experimental results on limits of these techniques for future super-
   scalars. We will survey current superscalar designs, including:
   R4000, RS/6000, Supersparc, PA-RISC 7100, i960CA and Alpha;
   detailed instruction-level evaluation of the IBM RS/6000 and
   Multiflow TRACE/300.

Monday, October 12
ASPLOS-V Reception : An informal gathering for conference and tutorial
                     attendees.

Tuesday October 13
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Welcome and Keynote Address, Butler Lampson, DEC
Cambridge Research Lab

Session I: File Systems, Chair: Randy Katz

      On-line Data Compression in a Log-structured File System, Michael
      Burrows, Charles Jerian, Butler Lampson, and Timothy Mann
      (DEC System Research Center).

      Non-volatile Memory for Fast, Reliable File Systems. Mary Baker,
      Satoshi Asami, Etienne Deprit, John Ousterhout and Margo Seltzer
      (Univ. of California, Berkeley).

      Parity Declustering for Continuous Operation in Redundant Disk
      Arrays. Mark Holland and Garth A. Gibson (Carnegie Mellon).

Session II: Software and Hardware for Prefetching, Chair: David
Callahan

      Software Support for Speculative Loads. Anne Rogers and Kai Li
      (Princeton University).

      Reducing Memory Latency via Non-blocking and Prefetching
      Caches. Tien-Fu Chen and Jean-Loup Baer (Univ. of Washington).

      Design and Evaluation of a Compiler Algorithm for Prefetching.
      Todd C. Mowry, Monica S. Lam and Anoop Gupta (Stanford
      University).

Session III: Branch Prediction, Chair: Thomas Gross

      Improving the Accuracy of Dynamic Branch Prediction Using
      Branch Correlation. Shien-Tai Pan and Kimming So (IBM), and
      Joseph T. Rahmeh (Univ. of Texas, Austin).

     Predicting Conditional Branch Directions from Previous Runs
      of a Program. Joseph A. Fisher and Stefan M. Freudenberger
      (Hewlett-Packard Labs).

Session IV: Networks and Communications, Chair: Anant Agarwal

      High Speed Switch Scheduling for Local Area Networks. Thomas
      E. Anderson (Univ. of California, Berkeley), and Susan S. Owicki,
      James B. Saxe, and Charles P. Thacker (DEC System Research Center).

      A Tightly-Coupled Processor-Network Interface.
      Dana S. Henry and Christopher F. Joerg (MIT).

Evening Panel Session and Open Bar

Wednesday October 14
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Session V: Caches and Memory Management, Chair: Douglas Clark

      Consistency Management for Virtually Indexed Caches.
      Bob Wheeler and Brian N. Bershad (Carnegie Mellon).

      Eliminating the Address Translation Bottleneck for Physical
      Address Cache. Tzi-cker Chiueh and Randy H. Katz
      (Univ. of California, Berkeley).

      A Performance Evaluation of Optimal Hybrid Cache Coherency
      Protocols. Jack E. Veenstra and Robert J. Fowler (Univ. of
      Rochester).

Session VI: Architecture and Operating Systems, Chair: John Wilkes

      Characterizing the Caching and Synchronization Performance of a
      Multiprocessor Operating System. Josep Torrellas, Anoop Gupta
      and John Hennessy (Stanford).

      Architectural Support for Single Address Space Operating Systems.
      Eric J. Koldinger, Jeffrey S. Chase, and Susan J. Eggers (Univ. of
      Washington).

      Application-Controlled Physical Memory using External Page-
      Cache Management, Kieran Harty and David R. Cheriton (Stanford).

Session VII Miscellaneous Topics, Chair: Anita Borg

      Efficient Data Breakpoints. Robert Wahbe (Univ. of California,
      Berkeley).

      Migrating a CISC Computer Family onto RISC via Object Code
      Translation. Kristy Andrews and Duane Sand (Tandem Com-
      puter Corporation).

      Fast Mutual Exclusion for Uniprocessors. Brian N. Bershad
      (Carnegie Mellon), and David D. Redell and John R. Ellis (DEC
      System Research Center).

Session VIII: Work in Progress Session, Chair: Susan Eggers

      [see detail below]

Evening Panel Session and Open Bar

Thursday October 15
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Session IX: Superscalars, Chair: Mary Lou Soffa

      Sentinel Scheduling for VLIW and Superscalar Processors. Scott A.
      Mahlke, William Y. Chen, and Wen-mei W. Hwu (Univ. of Illi-
      nois), and B. Ramakrishna Rau and Michael S. Schlansker
      (Hewlett-Packard Labs).

      Efficient Superscalar Performance Through Boosting. Michael D.
      Smith, Mark Horowitz, and Monica S. Lam (Stanford).

Session X: Multiprocessors: Hardware and Software, Chair: David Cheriton

      Cooperative Shared Memory: Software and Hardware Support for
      Scalable Multiprocessors. Mark D. Hill, James R. Larus, Steven
      K. Reinhardt, and David A. Wood (Univ. of Wisconsin).

      Closing the Window of Vulnerability in Multiphase Memory Trans-
      actions. John Kubiatowicz, David Chaiken, and Anant Agarwal
      (MIT).

      Access Normalization: Loop Restructuring for NUMA Compilers.
      Wei Li and Keshav Pingali (Cornell University).

Work in Progress Session

This year ASPLOS will feature a "work in progress" session,
consisting of 5-minute presentations on ASPLOS-oriented work in
progress, or even opinions about technical (and certainly controver-
sial) topics. If you are interested in participating, please send an ab-
stract of no more than one page to Susan Eggers, preferably through
email (eggers@cs.washington.edu) or at Dept. of Computer Science
and Engineering, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195. Your
abstract must be received by September 15, 1992; final notification
will be just prior to the conference.

As is customary for ASPLOS, there will be panel sessions in
the evenings on controversial and/or topical subjects. This year there
will be a reception on Monday evening and panels on both Tuesday
and Wednesday evenings. An open bar will be available during both
panel sessions.

Conference Chairs

      General            Barry Flahive, Hewlett-Packard
      Program            Hank Levy, University of Washington
      Treasurer          Bob Nix, Digital Equipment Corporation
      Publicity          Jeanette McWilliams, IBM
                         Steven White, IBM
      Local Arrangements David Levine, Hewlett-Packard
      Registration       Hugh Lauer, Mitsubishi Electric Research
      Tutorials          Bruce Olsen, Hewlett-Packard

Program Committee

      Hank Levy          University of Washington (chair)
      Anant Agarwal      MIT
      Anita Borg         DEC Western Research Lab
      David Callahan     Tera Computer Corporation
      David Cheriton     Stanford University
      Doug Clark         Digital Equipment Corporation
      David Ditzel       Sun Microsystems
      Susan Eggers       University of Washington
      Thomas Gross       Carnegie Mellon University
      Randy Katz         Univ. of California, Berkeley
      David May          INMOS Limited
      Mary Lou Soffa     University of Pittsburgh
      Guy Steele         Thinking Machines Corporation
      John Wilkes        Hewlett-Packard Laboratories

Registration

   Conference registration includes one copy of the proceed-
ings, lunches, breaks, banquet, and receptions. Registration for
tutorial sessions includes both tutorials plus one copy of notes
for each tutorial, a lunch, and breaks. The student registration fee
excludes meals; however by tradition, regular ASPLOS attendees who do
not plan to use their meal tickets normally donate them to students.
   Electronic mail or fax registration requires payment by credit
card. A registration form may be retrieved by anonymous ftp from
merl.com, file /asplos/registration.form. (One is also included at
the end of this file.)  For further information, contact Darlene
Forsyth at (508) 436-5450 or asplos@apollo.hp.com.


Transportation

   Boston's Logan Airport is located very near downtown and
the Park Plaza Hotel. Airways Transportation operates a shuttle
from the airport every half hour to all downtown hotels; fare is
$7.50. A taxi cab costs about $12-15 and takes 20-40 min-
utes.  The fastest way from the airport is via MBTA subway.
Take the free shuttle bus to Airport Station, then take the Blue
Line inbound to Government Center, change to the Green Line, and
go to the Arlington station.  The hotel is one block south of
Arlington Station, and three blocks from the Amtrak Back Bay Station.
  Through special arrangements with Continental Airlines, conference
attendees will be eligible for the lowest rate round-trip fare
without having to stay over Saturday night.  This represents a 50%
savings over the normal fare available to most people.  (Other
restrictions, such as advance purchase, restrictions on changes, etc.,
still apply; only the Saturday night stay is waived.)  In addition,
other discounted airline fares are available.  To take
advantage of this offer, please contact Colpitts Travel of
Lexington, Massachussetts, at (800)441-4023, and mention "ASPLOS".


Climate

   Weather in Boston in October ranges from chilly to warm.
Early morning temperatures may be as low as 35 F, but tem-
peratures may rise to the upper 70s F during the day. A jacket
will probably be needed, and rain is always a possiblity. Casual
attire is appropriate throughout the conference.


Conference Site and Accomodation

   All technical sessions, lunches, and registration will be held
at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel and Towers.
   Contact the hotel directly for reservations and indicate ASPLOS-V
Conference.  Conference rates are $105 for single and $115 for double,
(9.7% State and City tax not included). Reservations must be received
by September 14, 1992, to guarantee conference rate. Late reservations
accepted on a space-available basis.

                        Boston Park Plaza Hotel
                          64 Arlington Street
                            Boston, MA 02117
                  (617) 426-2000; Fax: (617) 426-5545


ASPLOS-V Registration Form

ASPLOS-V
P.O. Box 1455
Concord, MA 01742
(617) 621-7503; Fax: (617) 621-7550
Attention: Hugh Lauer

e-mail   To: asplos@apollo.hp.com
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For further information, contact Darlene Forsyth at (508) 436-5450 or
asplos@apollo.hp.com.


REGISTRATION:-


Name: ________________________________________________________________

Affiliation: _________________________________________________________

Address: _____________________________________________________________


Daytime telephone: ___________________________________________________

ACM Member # ___________________ or IEEE Member # ____________________

Electronic mail address:

Please list any special needs or accommodations



FEES:-

  (Before Sept 14)       Member      Non-member      Student

     Symposium            $295 ___     $413 ___       $120 ___
     Tutorial             $205 ___     $287 ___        $97 ___

     T-Shirt Size  Small ___  Medium ___  Large ___  X-Large ___
     (T-shirt included only with paid registrations
      received by Sept 14)

  (After Sept 14)        Member      Non-member      Student

     Symposium            $398 ___     $558 ___       $120 ___
     Tutorial             $277 ___     $387 ___        $97 ___

Student registration must be able to produce a valid, full-time
student ID; meals not included in student registration.

PAYMENT:-

Check drawn on U.S. bank payable to : ASPLOS-V ____

MasterCard ___  Visa ___

Card no.: _____________________________________________

Expiration date: ______________________________________

Name on card: _________________________________________

Signature: ____________________________________________



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