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Please distribute:

                           CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

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                           Second Workshop on 
       Computer Architecture Evaluation using Commercial Workloads
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                    Orlando, Sunday Jan. 10, 1999
                     Immediately precedes HPCA-5


   ABSTRACT DUE: Nov. 8, 1998;    ACCEPTANCE NOTIFICATION: Nov. 22, 1998
             FOILS FOR DISTRIBUTION TO ATTENDEES : Dec. 18, 1998

Building on the positive feedback enjoyed by the First Workshop on
Computer Architecture Evaluation using Commercial Workloads, this 
second workshop will bring together again researchers and practitioners 
in computer architecture and commercial workloads from industry and 
academia. In the course of one day, we will discuss work-in-progress 
that utilizes commercial workloads for the evaluation of computer 
architectures.  By discussing this ongoing research, the workshop 
will expose participants to the characteristics of commercial workload 
behavior and provide an understanding of how commercial workloads 
exercise computer systems. There will be discussions on the difficulties 
associated with using commercial workloads to drive new computer 
architecture designs and what can be done to overcome them.

The workshop program will include a few invited talks from experts
in the field, and a set of talks selected based on abstracts being 
solicited through this call for abstracts. A 20-minute 
time limit will be enforced for each talk, and there will be plenty 
of time for audience participation. A panel discussion session will 
be held after the technical presentations. There will be no proceedings 
for the workshop since we encourage the presentation of work-in-progress 
and research in early stages. Copies of the foils used by the speakers 
will be distributed to the attendees.

Based on feedback from the first workshop, quantitative analyses 
will be preferred in the selection of the talks.

Topics for the talks include, but are not limited to:

- Characterization of commercial workload behavior.
- Hardware design trade-off analysis using commercial workloads.
- Parallelism and multiprocessing issues.
- Performance evaluation of existing architectures using commercial 
  workloads.
- Comparison of commercial workload behavior to scientific workload 
  behavior.
- Comparison of end-user workloads to industry standard benchmarks.
- Simulation techniques for predicting the performance of commercial 
  workloads.
- Application and/or OS kernel algorithm improvements to enhance 
  performance.
- Processor, cache, memory, or I/O subsystem design and analysis using
  commercial workloads.

Please send your abstract submissions (about 1 page in length, ASCII 
text) by e-mail by Nov. 8, 1998 to one of the Workshop Co-Chairs :

Russell Clapp, Informix
			    rmcl@acm.org
Ashwini Nanda, IBM TJ Watson Research Center
                            ashwini@watson.ibm.com
Josep Torrellas, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
                            torrella@cs.uiuc.edu

The workshop web site is:  http://iacoma.cs.uiuc.edu/caecw99
The first workshop's web site is:  http://iacoma.cs.uiuc.edu/caecw98


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