HPCA 2010 Workshop on the Use of Emerging Storage and Memory Technologies

HPCA 2010 Workshop on the Use of Emerging Storage and Memory Technologies

[Suparna Bhattacharya]

We are holding a half-day workshop on the use of emerging storage and memory
technologies (like flash memory, phase-change-memory etc) on January 9, 2010
at The 16th IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer
Architecture (http://www.cse.psu.edu/hpcl/hpca16.html) in Bangalore.

BTW, this is the first time that HPCA conference is coming to India and we
are quite excited about it. If you think you can attend the workshop and
are interested in submitting a presentation/paper proposal, please let me
know ASAP (I can try to extend the deadline a bit).

Regards
Suparna

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  HPCA 2010 Workshop on the Use of Emerging Storage and Memory Technologies

Call for Papers
===============

Flash memory as well as emerging storage class memories such as phase
change memory require new hardware and software designs for higher
performance, reliability and lower power consumption. Due to the varied
ways such storage and memory can be used (for caching, for higher IOPs, etc)
and the associated shift in constraints (possibly challenging certain long
standing assumptions from previous technologies), the design of computer
systems is likely to change substantially in areas such as file systems,
data bases and virtual memory. Potential applications that benefit from these
technologies span a wide range of systems and workloads from laptops/PCs
to storage/database servers, HPC checkpointing to emerging data-centric
"warehouse" computing environments. The main goal of this workshop is to
bring together people from industry and academia who are interested in
all aspects of hardware and software computer systems design using such
emerging storage and memory technologies and any support needed for
pursuing research in this area. The workshop will provide a forum to
present and discuss new ideas, new research directions, and current
trends in this area.


Topics of Interest
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The topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to, the
following areas:

    * Impact of emerging storage and memory technologies on any aspect
      of computer systems design
    * Flash and SCM storage designs
    * Virtual Memory and SCMs (e.g. PCM, MRAM)
    * Wear levelling in flash and SCM
    * File system and database designs that exploit emerging memory and
      storage technologies
    * Use of flash/PCM in application and middle-ware persistence store
      components (e.g. message queues, distributed object caches,
      key-value stores etc)
    * Power management for flash/SCMs
    * Use of specific types of non-volatile memories (FRAM, MRAM, etc.)
      in systems design
    * Exploiting flash/SCMs for enhancing fault tolerance
    * Reliability modelling and empirical studies for flash/SCMs
    * Security (or its lack) with flash/SCMs
    * Novel applications of flash/SCM 


Duration
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Proposed length of the workshop: half a day (4 hours).
Scheduled for Saturday, Jan 9, 2010 (morning).


Paper Submission
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All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Papers in PDF
format should be submitted electronically by e-mail to
bsuparna@in.ibm.com or gopi@csa.iisc.ernet.in no later than November 3,
2009 by 6pm PST. The papers should be prepared using the 2-column ACM
conference format, and no longer than 6 pages. All the submitted papers
will be reviewed by the program committee, and acceptance will be based
on standard criterion of research merit. Submission of the paper implies
that at least one of the authors will register and present the paper at
the workshop if the paper is accepted. Submission inquiries should be
sent to bsuparna@in.ibm.com or gopi@csa.iisc.ernet.in. The papers and
presentations will be made available online. However, publication in
this workshop does not preclude later publication in regular conferences
and journals.


Important Dates
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    * Submission deadline: November 3, 2009 6pm PST
    * Acceptance notification: November 20, 2009 


Program Committee
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    * Amrutur Bharadwaj (ECE, IISc Bangalore)
    * Suparna Bhattacharya (IBM Systems and Technology Lab, Bangalore)
    * Richard Freitas (IBM Almaden Research Center)
    * K. Gopinath (CSA, IISc Bangalore)
    * Sudhanva Gurumurthi (Univ. of Virginia)
    * Adam Levanthal (Sun Microsystems)
    * C.Mohan (IBM Almaden Research Center)
    * Youjip Won (Hanyang Univ., Korea) 


The organizers and their affiliations
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    * K. Gopinath, Professor at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
    * Suparna Bhattacharya, Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM Systems
      and Technology Lab, Bangalore.

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