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This is the 1st October 2007 Digest of SIGARCH Messages (sigarch-oct07a):


* NSF Computing Processes and Artifacts (CPA) Cluster Solicitation
  http://nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07587/nsf07587.htm
  Submitted by Timothy M. Pinkston <[log in to unmask]>

* NSF "Expeditions in Computing" (Expeditions) Solicitation
  http://nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07592/nsf07592.htm
  Submitted by Timothy M. Pinkston <[log in to unmask]>

* ACM/IEEE-CS High Performance Computing Ph.D. Fellowship Program (Nominations due October 30)
  http://www.sigarch.org/HPC_Fellowships.html
  Submitted by William Kramer <[log in to unmask]>

* SMART'08 Workshop Updated Call for Papers: Statistical and Machine learning approaches
  to ARchitecture and compilaTion (SMART'08)
  http://www.hipeac.net/smart-workshop.html
  Submitted by Grigori Fursin <[log in to unmask]>

* New papers published online by IEEE Computer Architecture Letters
  http://www.comp-arch-letters.org
  Submitted by Kevin Skadron <[log in to unmask]>

* Announcing HotSpot 4.0
  http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~skadron/Papers/wddd07-UVA-hotspot-final.pdf
  Submitted by Kevin Skadron <[log in to unmask]>

* 2008-2009 Athena Lecturer Call for Nominations
  https://campus.acm.org/public/acmw/athena_announcement.cfm
  Submitted by Donna Cappo <[log in to unmask]>

* ISCA 2008 Call for Workshops and Tutorials
  http://isca2008.cs.princeton.edu/cfwt.html
  Submitted by Qin Lv <[log in to unmask]>

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* NSF Computing Processes and Artifacts (CPA) Cluster solicitation

The new solicitation for architecture proposals to the NSF Computing
Processes and Artifacts (CPA) cluster is up and available at
http://nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07587/nsf07587.htm.  The proposal deadline is
December 7, 2007.  There are some changes compared to last year's
solicitation, so submitters should carefully read the new solicitation.  One
notable change is that an investigator may participate on at most two
proposals (instead of just one) as long as at least one of the proposals is
a "team" or "major team" proposal, but only a few proposals in these
categories are expected to be awarded overall.

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* NSF "Expeditions in Computing" (Expeditions) Solicitation

A new NSF CISE program called "Expeditions in Computing" (Expeditions)
provides the opportunity for the computing research community to pursue
ambitious, compelling, and transformative research agendas that promise
disruptive innovations in the computing and information fields.  Funded at
levels up to $2,000,000 per year for five years, awarded projects are
expected to explore far-reaching research and education activities motivated
by hard problems and/or compelling applications.  Teams of investigators
from within or across departments or institutions are encouraged to combine
their expertise and talents to forge well-integrated research appropriate
for the Expeditions program.  More information about Expeditions is
available at http://nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07592/nsf07592.htm.  Note the
following deadlines: a Letter of Intent is due November 5, 2007, and the
Preliminary Proposal is due December 30, 2007.  It is estimated that only 20
collaborating teams will be invited to submit a full proposal due on April
1, 2008, with only 3 of those proposals anticipated for award.

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* ACM/IEEE-CS High Performance Computing Ph.D. Fellowship Program

ACM/IEEE-CS High Performance Computing Ph.D. Fellowship Program
Due date: October 30, 2007

(aka Supercomputing Fellowship)


Contact info:

    * Download the application form - RTF - Text
    * E-mail address for applications: [log in to unmask]
    * E-mail address for questions: [log in to unmask] 

HPC Fellowship Standing Sub-Committee:

    * William Kramer
    * Chuck Koelbel
    * Scott Lathrop 

Summary

Based on a proposal from the SC conference Steering Committee, the ACM and IEEE Computer 
Society established a fellowship fund for worthy students who are studying topics in High 
Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis. Funded by the surplus of SC|05, 
this fellowship is sufficiently endowed to fund at least $20,000 per year. Further 
contributions will be solicited from future conference surpluses as well as other 
organizations interested in fostering an educational focus on HPC.

Background

Multiple reports in the past several years, including the High End Computing Revitalization 
Task Force Report and the National Academy Report on Supercomputing, have noted the need to 
have a highly trained cadre of HPC scientists and engineers. The National Research Council 
study on Supercomputing specifically recommends:

"While it is important to keep senior professionals in the field [of Supercomputing], it is 
also important to continue to produce next-generation professionals. Funding models that 
encourage and support the education of the next generation, as well as those that provide 
the supercomputing infrastructure needed for their education, are necessary. It is also 
important that students preparing for a career in high-performance computing have confidence 
that attractive employment opportunities will continue to exist."

The SC Conference leadership, through partnership with the ACM and IEEE-CS, makes sustained 
efforts to support training and education for attendees and selected minority serving and 
general education facilities. Each year, the conference supports 75-100 college students to 
attend the conference as volunteer workers, but at the same time participate in the c
onference. The conference has a long tradition of providing an excellent fully-subsidized 
education program for science and computing instructors in at both the college and high 
school level.

Intent

The ACM/IEEE-CS HPC Ph.D. Fellowship Program honors exceptional Ph.D. students throughout 
the world with the focus areas of High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and 
Analysis. HPC covers the areas of computational sciences, computational engineering, and 
computer science using the most powerful computers available at a given time. The ACM/IEEE-
CS HPC Ph.D. Fellowship Program also supports our long-standing commitment to workforce 
diversity and encourages nominations of women, minorities and all who contribute to 
diversity.

Scope

ACM/IEEE-CS HPC Ph.D. Fellowships are awarded a certificate and a stipend of at least 
$5,000 (US) for one academic year. All ACM/IEEE-CS HPC Ph.D. Fellows are invited to attend 
at least one SC conference (usually the one after notification of receiving the award). 
Furthermore, the SC Steering Committee and other conference volunteers are willing to 
facilitate, where possible, internships for Fellows at HPC research or development sites. 
Interns are paid by their host site and will be subject to the prevailing terms and
conditions of the internship program at that site. ACM/IEEE-CS HPC Ph.D. Fellowships are 
awarded annually but previous awardees may compete annually to be renewed for up to two 
additional years (three total), based on the Award Recipient's continued exceptional 
academic standing, progress, achievement, and sustained interaction with the HPC technical 
community. All Fellowship Recipients pursuing an award renewal must be re-nominated to 
compete for an award renewal. A maximum of one nomination per academic department will be 
considered in addition to any renewal nominations from that department.


Eligibility
Students must be nominated by a full time faculty member at a PhD granting, accredited 
institution. They must be enrolled in a full-time Ph. D program at an accredited college 
or university, and they should have completed at least one year of study in their doctoral 
program at the time of their nomination. Fellowship recipients will be selected based on:

    * their overall potential for research excellence,
    * the degree to which their technical interests align with those of the HPC community,
    * their academic progress to-date, as evidenced by publications and endorsements from 
      their faculty advisor and department head as well as a plan of study to enhance HPC 
      related skills
    * the demonstration of their anticipated use of HPC resources. 

All applicants must meet minimum scholarship requirements at the institution where they are 
or will be registered.

Procedures

Applications will be made to the SC Steering Committee's Standing Sub-Committee for HPC 
Fellowship (SSC-HPCF). The nomination deadline will be set by the SSC-HPCF but will 
typically be around the first of July of the year of award. The applications shall 
include a current application form, the applicant's transcripts, a list of the applicant's 
academic awards, a description of the proposed research, and a list of applicant's 
publications / presentations. Each application shall include at least l letters of 
recommendation from their thesis supervisor and department head. Additional letters of 
recommendation will also be considered.

Nominations will be submitted via email to [log in to unmask] SC Steering 
Committee, through the SSC-HPCF, will oversee the ACM/IEEE-CS HPC Ph.D. Fellowship Program, 
under the guidelines and policy of ACM SIGARCH. The SC Steering Committee shall select the 
awardees, in accordance with guidelines established by ACM policy. The selection will be 
based on academic excellence, the applicant's research proposal and the potential impact 
of the research in it's field of endeavor as well as the letters in support of the 
candidate's application. The ACM/IEEE-CS Ph.D. Fellowship Program supports a long-standing 
commitment by the Societies and the SC Conference series to workforce diversity and 
encourages nominations of women, minorities and all who contribute to diversity. All 
applications are considered in confidence. All award decisions are final.

Renewals

A Scholarship is awarded on a yearly basis. It is renewable two times, upon application and 
subject to availability of funds. All applications for renewal will be placed in competition 
with applications received by the closing date for that competition. Applicants applying for 
renewal must be registered in a PhD program. Candidates must be conducting computation on 
HPC resources by the end of their first scholarship term. Renewal Applications must include: 
an updated transcript; a new letters of recommendation from their thesis supervisor and 
department head focusing on progress made in the first scholarship term, and, a 1 - 2 page 
research statement to explain the applicant's research, the importance of the research, use 
of HPC, progress to date including papers pending for publication, presentations at 
conferences, etc. and plans for the next year.

Recognition

The SC Steering Committee, the ACM and the IEEE Computer Society reserve the right to 
publicize in the public domain the names of the recipient, their research topics, 
institution and other general information.

Endowment

The expectation is that up to three (3) awards of at least $5,000 will be made each year at 
the current endowment level. In addition to the $5,000 stipend, awardees will receive a 
certificate and be invited to be student volunteers at the conference. Up to $2,000 per 
year will be allocated to certificates and expenses to attend the SC conference. If the 
endowment increases, more awards and/or larger awards will be considered. Likewise, if the 
endowment decreases, the number and/or size of the awards will be adjusted.

Award Selection Committee

The management and selection of the ACM/IEEE-CS HPC Ph.D. Fellowship awards is the 
responsibility of the SC Steering Committee, under the guidelines set by the ACM SIGARCH. 
The SC Steering Committee created a standing sub-committee to serve selection committee SC 
Steering Committee's Standing Sub-Committee for HPC Fellowship (SSC-HPCF). The SC Steering 
Committee shall also be responsible for the solicitation of nominations, the administration 
of the award and the publicity and solicitation of proposals. The SC Steering committee may 
delegate part or all of these responsibilities to a subcommittee. The first award 
solicitation will be in 2007.

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* SMART'08 Workshop Updated Call for Papers: Statistical and Machine learning approaches
  to ARchitecture and compilaTion (SMART'08)

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                              CALL FOR PAPERS

                              2nd Workshop on

                 Statistical and Machine learning approaches
                       to ARchitecture and compilaTion
                                (SMART'08)

                  http://www.hipeac.net/smart-workshop.html

                     January 27, 2008, Goteborg, Sweden

                  (co-located with HiPEAC 2008 Conference)

                   **** NEW PUBLICATION INFORMATION ****

        The best papers submitted will be considered for publication
       in a special issue of Transactions  on HiPEAC, Springer-Verlag

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The rapid rate of architectural change has placed enormous pressure on
compiler writers to keep pace with microprocessor evolution.  This
problem is compounded by the current trend to have multi-cores and
multi-threading which makes such systems increasingly difficult to
target. Also, current methods of designing computer systems will no
longer be feasible in 10-15 years time; what is needed are new
innovative approaches to architecture design that scale both with
advances in underlying technology and with future application domains.

In recent years, several papers have been published showing great
potential in constructing compilers and architectures using approaches
such as machine learning and search.

The purpose of this workshop is to promote new ideas and to present
recent developments in compiler and architecture design using machine
learning, statistical approaches, and search in order to enhance their
performance, scalability, and adaptability.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

Machine Learning, Statistical Approaches, or Search applied to

* Feedback-Directed Compilation 
* Auto-tuning Programs + Language Extensions
* Library Generators
* Iterative Compilation 
* Dynamic Compilation/Adaptive Execution 
* Parallel Compiler Optimizations 
* Low-power Optimizations 
* Simulation 
* Performance Models 
* Adaptive Processor and System Architecture 
* Design Space Exploration 
* Other Topics relevant to Intelligent and Adaptive Compilers/Architectures

**** Paper Submission Guidelines ****

Paper length - maximum 15 pages.

Papers must be submitted in the PDF (preferably) or postscript
formats. Email your submissions to [log in to unmask] or use
the workshop submission website.

Proceedings: An informal collection of the papers to be presented will
be distributed at the workshop. Questions regarding the workshop
proceedings should be forwarded to [log in to unmask] .

All accepted papers will appear on the workshop website.

**** NEW PUBLICATION INFORMATION ****

The best papers submitted will be considered for publication
in the journal Transactions on HiPEAC, Springer-Verlag

**** Important Dates ****

Deadline for submission: November 2, 2007 
Decision notification: November 30, 2007

Workshop: January 27, 2008

Organizer

Michael O'Boyle, University of Edinburgh UK

Program Committee 

Francois Bodin, IRISA, France
Calin Cascaval, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
John Cavazos, University of Delaware, USA
Lieven Eeckhout, Ghent University, Belgium
Ari Freund, IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel
Grigori Fursin, INRIA Futurs, France
Michael O'Boyle, University of Edinburgh UK
David Padua, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Devika Subramanian, Rice University, USA
Olivier Temam, INRIA Futurs, France
Matthew J. Thazhuthaveetil, Indian Institute of Science, India 
Richard Vuduc, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
David Whalley, Florida State University, USA
Chris Williams, University of Edinburgh, UK 

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* New papers published online by IEEE Computer Architecture Letters

Computer Architecture Letters announces our most recent paper,
available now via IEEE Xplore. We happy to report that, as
recognition of Computer Architecture Letters has grown, the submission
rate has nearly doubled this year.  We continue to seek new submissions
and remain committed to fast and accurate review.  Our mean time to
decision in 2007 has been 24 days, with an acceptance rate of
approximately 24%.  For more information on submission, please see
http://www.comp-arch-letters.org


-  J. Yi, R. Sendag, and P.-f. Chuang. "Branch Misprediction Prediction: Complementary 
   Branch Predictors." Computer Architecture Letters, vol. 6, Sep. 2007.


Abstract:
In this paper, we propose a new class of branch
predictors, complementary branch predictors, which can be
easily added to any branch predictor to improve the overall
prediction accuracy. This mechanism differs from
conventional branch predictors in that it focuses only on
mispredicted branches. As a result, this mechanism has the
advantages of scalability and flexibility (can be implemented
with any branch predictor), but is not on the critical path.
More specifically, this mechanism improves the branch
prediction accuracy by predicting which future branch will
be mispredicted next and when that will occur, and then it
changes the predicted direction at the predicted time. Our
results show that a branch predictor with the branch
misprediction predictor achieves the same prediction
accuracy as a conventional branch predictor that is 4 to 16
times larger, but without significantly increasing the overall
complexity or lengthening the critical path.

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* Announcing HotSpot 4.0

University of Virginia is pleased to announce the release of HotSpot version 4.0.  
It includes some changes to enhance accuracy for high-aspect-ratio blocks in the block 
model, modification of the first-order transient solver of the grid model into a fourth-
order adaptive step-size Runge-Kutta solver for increased accuracy, improved heatsink 
modeling, and a complete re-write of the grid model for better readability and extensibility.
To read more about these changes, see our WDDD 2007 paper: 
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~skadron/Papers/wddd07-UVA-hotspot-final.pdf


HotSpot 4.0 can be downloaded at:
http://lava.cs.virginia.edu/HotSpot/


We welcome feedback on how to improve HotSpot.  Please send mail to Kevin Skadron - 
skadron _at_ cs.virginia.edu   Some of our current tasks are better support for closing 
the thermal-leakage feedback loop and improved modeling of the package and cooling solution.
Longer term we will provide better integration with HotLeakage, better support for 
integration into full-system models, and faster solvers.

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* 2008-2009 Athena Lecturer Call for Nomination

ACM-W announces a call for nominations for the 2008-2009 Athena 
Lecturer. The first year of the Athena Lectureship was 2006-2007, and 
the inaugural Athena Lecturer was Professor Deborah Estrin of UCLA, who 
spoke at MobiCom 2006 in Los Angeles.  The 2007-2008 Athena Lecturer was


Professor Karen Sparck Jones, who passed away on April 4, 2007.  Sparck 
Jones taped her lecture, which was given at the 20th Annual 
International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in 
Information Retrieval in Amsterdam.


    Athena Lectures celebrate women researchers who have made 
fundamental contributions to computer science. Each year ACM will honor 
a preeminent woman computer scientist as the Athena Lecturer. Speakers 
are nominated by SIG officers. The Athena Lecturer will give a one-hour 
invited talk at an ACM conference determined by the speaker and the SIG 
which nominated her. A video of the talk will appear on the ACM website 
and the talk may also appear in the Communiations of the ACM. The award 
includes travel expenses to the meeting and a $1500 honorarium.


     This is a call for nominations for the 2008-09 Athena Lecturer.


    * Athena Lecturers must be nominated by a SIG. To nominate a speaker


in the SIGs research areas, an officer of the SIG must fill out the 
form. All SIGs are eligible to nominate up to two candidates. Note: 
Members of the Athena Lecturer Selection Committee cannot be nominated 
to be an Athena Lecture.


    * The chosen speaker will give an invited lecture at an 
ACM-sponsored meeting determined by the lecturer and the SIG. (It is 
expected that the talk will be at one of the conferences run by the 
nominating SIG.) ACM will cover travel expenses and honorarium.  Two 
SIGs may collaborate and nominate a single speaker to speak at two 
meetings sponsored by the SIGs; it will be the Athena Lecturer's choice 
whether to give two talks.  In any case, the SIGs must themselves 
provide additional travel funds for the second meeting.  In addition, 
there is no requirement that the nominee be directly in the field; a SIG


may choose to nominate an outstanding researcher in a related field.


   * Deadlines:
      Applications due: February 1, 2008.
      Announcement of Athena Lecturer: March 15. 2008.
      Lecture will occur: Between July 1, 2008 and June 30, 2009.
    * Selection Committee: Susan Landau, Sun Microsystems, chair, 
2005-2010; Deborah            Estrin, UCLA, 2008-2011;  Martha Pollack, 
University of Michigan, 2008-2011; Barbara Ryder, Rutgers University, 
2005-2008; Eva Tardos, Cornell University, 2008-2011.


    Athena is the Greek goddess of wisdom; with her wisdom and sense of 
purpose, and her willingness to enter the fray, Athena epitomizes the 
strength, determination, and intelligence of the "Athena Lecturers."


See: https://campus.acm.org/public/acmw/athena_announcement.cfm

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* ISCA 2008 Call for Workshops and Tutorials

ISCA 2008: Call for Workshops and Tutorials


            http://isca2008.cs.princeton.edu/cfwt.html


Workshop and Tutorial proposals are solicited for ISCA-35 in Beijing,
China. Workshops and Tutorials will be held June 21-22, 2008. Beijing
offers a dynamic environment with numerous universities, research
institutes, and companies, from which we expect very high attendance.
Please send workshop proposals to Sally McKee ([log in to unmask]) and
Weiwu Hu ([log in to unmask]). Please send tutorial proposals to Fred Chong
([log in to unmask]) and David August ([log in to unmask]). Deadline
for proposals is January 4, 2008.


For workshops, please include in your proposal:


    * title of the workshop


    * organizers and their affiliations


    * sample call for papers, including the workshop's main topics


    * expected duration of the workshop; i.e., 1/2 day, full day, or 2 days


    * if the workshop was previously held, the number of published papers
      and attendees at the last workshop


For tutorials, include:


    * title of the tutorial


    * organizers, presenters, their affiliations, and short bios


    * abstract of the tutorial


    * a list of topics to be covered and some of their related bibliography


    * expected duration of the tutorial; i.e., 1/2 day, full day, or 2 days


    * if the tutorial was previously held, the location (i.e., which
      conference), date, and number of attendees at the last tutorial

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