Power consumption has increasingly become important in computer systems. The management of power consumption while simultaneously delivering acceptable levels of performance is becoming a critical task with the the proliferation of systems in several application domains such as wireless communication and embedded signal processing. In addition, it is important to manage power consumption in high-performance general purpose microarchitectures. It has been forecast that without significant advances in design for low power processors of the future will consume hundreds of watts of power. We believe that an integrated hardware and software approach is required. A lot of attention has been paid to optimizing power at the circuit and gate levels. Recently, power optimizations at the architecture and software (i.e., compiler, operating system, and application) level have begun to receive attention.The purpose of this workshop is to draw together researchers and practitioners concerned with compiler and operating system support for low power for a stimulating exchange of views.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
The format of the workshop will include presentations of selected papers and plenty of time for discussion.
- Static and dynamic compilation strategies to reduce power and energy consumption.
- Architecture-level power analysis, power efficient instruction issue mechanisms, experimental analysis of low power cache organizations.
- Quantitative evaluation of power and energy consumption for general and special purpose applications.
- Application tuning for efficient battery utilization.
- Operating system solutions for low power including dynamic power management policies and energy efficient scheduling strategies.
Submission Guidelines
Papers will be accepted on the basis of their novelty and relevance to the theme of the workshop.
- Submissions should be at most 6 pages in length.
- Papers should be submitted in PDF format by email to the workshop co-chair: jxr at ece dor lsu dot edu.
- Hard copy (postal) submissions will not be accepted.
- Please include the following information in plain text with the submission:
- author's name(s),
- postal address,
- phone and FAX numbers,
- email address,
- title,
- 5 keywords and
- abstract.
Please email submissions by August 10, 2000. You should receive an acknowledgement of your submission by the following week. Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by September 1, 2000 and the final papers are due by September 15, 2000.
All submissions will be refereed, and workshop attendees will receive copies of all accepted papers.
Important Dates
August 10: Electronic submission due
September 1: Notification of authors
September 15: Final version of papers due
Workshop Co-Chairs
Mahmut Kandemir, Penn State University kandemir@cse.psu.edu J. Ramanujam, Louisiana State University jxr@ee.lsu.eduProgram Committee
Eduard Ayguade, Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya eduard@ac.upc.es Luca Benini, DEIS Universita' di Bologna lbenini@deis.unibo.it Alok Choudhary, Northwestern University choudhar@ece.nwu.edu Kemal Ebcioglu, IBM T. J. Watson kemal@us.ibm.com Carla Schlatter Ellis, Duke University carla@cs.duke.edu Manish Gupta, IBM T. J. Watson mgupta@us.ibm.com Rajiv Gupta, University of Arizona gupta@cs.arizona.edu Mary Janie Irwin, Penn State University mji@cse.psu.edu Niraj K. Jha, Princeton University jha@ee.princeton.edu Kaushik Roy, Purdue kaushik@ecn.purdue.edu Anand Sivasubramaniam, Penn State University anand@cse.psu.edu Asim Smailagic, Carnegie Mellon University asim@cs.cmu.edu Vamsi K. Srikantam, Agilent Laboratories vamsi@labs.agilent.com Vivek Tiwari, Intel Corporation vivek.tiwari@intel.com Chau-Wen Tseng, University of Maryland tseng@cs.umd.edu Narayanan Vijaykrishnan, Penn State University vijay@cse.psu.edu