Calendar

Feb
8
Sun
Welcome Reception and ACM Student Research Competition Posters
Feb 8 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Graduate Category

Event-Flow Graphs for Efficient Path-Sensitive Analyses
Ahmed Tamrawi (Iowa State University)

Intelligent Heuristic Construction with Active Learning
William Ogilvie (University of Edinburgh)

An Intermediate Language for DSLs Providing Support for Automatic Optimization and OpenCL Code Generation
Riyadh Baghdadi (Inria and KU Leuven)

Employing Code Generators as De-code Generators: A Novel Approach for Assembly to IR Translation
Niranjan Hasabnis (Stony Brook University)

Reducing Memory Buffering Overhead in Software Thread-Level Speculation
Zhen Cao (McGill)

Bitwidth Analysis and Optimization Using Dynamic Compilation Strategies
Kirshanthan Sundararajah (University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka)

Undergraduate Category

Auto-tuning the HotSpot JVM
Tharindu Rusira, Milinda Fernando, Chalitha Perera, and Chamara Philips (University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka)

Feb
9
Mon
Conference Opening
Feb 9 @ 8:30 am – 8:50 am
Session 1: GPU Optimization
Feb 9 @ 10:20 am – 12:00 pm

Improving GPGPU Energy-Efficiency through Concurrent Kernel Execution and DVFS
Qing Jiao (National University of Singapore), Mian Lu and Huynh Phung Huynh (Institute of High Performance Computing, A*STAR, Singapore), and Tulika Mitra (National University of Singapore)

Characterizing and Enhancing Global Memory Data Coalescing on GPUs
Naznin Fauzia, Louis-Noel Pouchet, and P Sadayappan (The Ohio State University, Columbus)

Automatic Data Placement into GPU On-chip Memory Resources
Chao Li (North Carolina State University), Yi Yang (NEC labs), and Zhen Lin and Huiyang Zhou (North Carolina State University)

Session 2: Tools, Debugging, and Techniques
Feb 9 @ 1:30 pm – 2:45 pm

A Parallel Abstract Interpreter for JavaScript
Kyle Dewey, Vineeth Kashyap, and Ben Hardekopf (University of California, Santa Barbara)

On Performance Debugging of Unnecessary Lock Contentions on Multicore Processors: A Replay-based Approach
Long Zheng and Xiaofei Liao (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China), Bingsheng He (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), and Song Wu and Hai Jin (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China)

Reactive Tiling
Jithendra Srinivas (Intel), Wei Ding, and Mahmut Kandemir (Penn State)

Session 3: Best Paper Session
Feb 9 @ 3:10 pm – 4:50 pm

Approximating Flow-Sensitive Pointer Analysis Using Frequent Itemset Mining
Vaivaswatha Nagaraj and R. Govindarajan (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)

HELIX-­UP: Relaxing Program Semantics to Unleash Parallelization
Simone Campanoni, Glenn Holloway, Gu-Yeon Wei, and David Brooks (Harvard University)

HERMES: A Fast Cross-ISA Binary Translator with Post-Optimization
Xiaochun Zhang (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Science), Qi Guo (Carnegie Mellon University), and Yunji Chen, Tianshi Chen, and Weiwu Hu (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Science)

Locality-Centric Thread Scheduling for Bulk-synchronous Programming Models on CPU Architectures
Hee-Seok Kim and Izzat El Hajj (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), John Stratton (MulticoreWare Inc.), and Steven Lumetta and Wen-mei Hwu (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Session 4a: Artifact Evaluation Discussion (Joint with PPoPP)
Feb 9 @ 5:15 pm – 5:45 pm
Session 4b: ACM Student Research Competition Presentations
Feb 9 @ 5:15 pm – 6:15 pm
Business Meeting
Feb 9 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Feb
10
Tue
Session 5: Microarchitecture
Feb 10 @ 8:25 am – 9:40 am

Branch Prediction and the Performance of Interpreters – Don’t Trust Folklore
Erven Rohou, Bharath Narasimha Swamy, and André Seznec (Inria, France)

Optimizing the flash-RAM energy trade-off in deeply embedded systems
James Pallister, Kerstin Eder, and Simon J. Hollis (University of Bristol)

EMEURO: A Framework for Generating Multi-Purpose Accelerators via Deep Learning
Lawrence McAfee and Kunle Olukotun (Stanford University)

Session 6: Parallelism and Concurrency
Feb 10 @ 10:05 am – 11:20 am

Optimizing and Auto-Tuning Scale-Free Sparse Matrix-Vector Multiplication on Intel Xeon Phi
Wai Teng Tang (Institute of High Performance Computing, A*STAR, Singapore), Ruizhe Zhao (Peking University, China), Mian Lu (Institute of High Performance Computing, A*STAR, Singapore), Yun Liang (Peking University, China), Huynh Phung Huynh (Institute of High Performance Computing, A*STAR, Singapore), Xibai Li (Peking University, China), and Rick Siow Mong Goh (Institute of High Performance Computing, A*STAR, Singapore)

Data Provenance Tracking for Concurrent Programs
Brandon Lucia (Carnegie Mellon University) and Luis Ceze (University of Washington)

Locality Aware Concurrent Start for Stencil Applications
Sunil Shrestha (University of Delaware), Joseph Manzano, Andres Marquez, and John Feo (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), and Guang R. Gao (University of Delaware)

Session 7: Code Generation and Optimization
Feb 10 @ 2:45 pm – 4:00 pm

Getting in Control of Your Control Flow with Control-Data Isolation
William Arthur (University of Michigan), Ben Mehne (University of California – Berkeley), and Reetuparna Das and Todd Austin (University of Michigan)

Checking Correctness of Code Generator Architecture Specifications
Niranjan Hasabnis, R. Sekar, and Rui Qiao (Stony Brook University)

Snapshot-based Loading-Time Acceleration for Web Applications
JinSeok Oh and Soo-Mook Moon (Seoul National University)

Excursion: Beach Blanket Babylon @ Club Fugazi
Feb 10 @ 4:00 pm – 10:15 pm

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We will be attending a private showing of Beach Blanket Babylon from 5:45 pm – 7:15 pm along with PPoPP.

After the show you will have time for dinner on your own with colleagues and new friends.

Transportation

Buses will leave the Marriott at 4:10 pm and return at 7:15 pm and 10:15 pm.

If you wish to return via public transporation, you can do so via a combination of walking, trolley and BART in around one and half hours.

Dining

The North Beach area of San Francisco is known for its Italian heritage.

Here is a link to great pizza places on Yelp and a list of restaraunts close to the theatre.

Bocce Café
478 Green @ Grant
(415) 981-2044
www.boccecafe.com
$$ ITALIAN
Until 10:30 pm
Distance to theatre: 2 blocks
Calzone’s
430 Columbus near Green
(415) 397-3600
www.calzonesf.com
$$ ITALIAN
Until 1 am
Distance to theatre: 1 1/2 blocks
Capp’s Corner
1600 Powell St. @ Green
(415) 989-2589
www.cappscorner.com
$$ ITALIAN
Until 10:30 pm
Distance to Theatre: 1/4 Block
Park Tavern
1652 Stockton St. near Filbert
(415) 989-7300
www.parktavernsf.com
$$$ NEW AMERICAN
Until 10 pm
Distance to theatre: 2 1/2 blocks
Piazza Pellegrini
659 Columbus @ Powell
(415) 397-7355
www.piazzapellegrini.com
$$ ITALIAN
Until 10 pm
Distance to theatre: 2 1/2 blocks
Trattoria Pinocchio
401 Columbus Ave. @ Vallejo
(415) 392-1472
www.trattoriapinocchio.com
$$ ITALIAN
Until 11 pm
Distance to theatre: 2 blocks
Antologia Vinoteca
515 Broadway @ Columbus
(415) 274-8423
www.antologiasf.com
LATIN AMERICAN WINE BAR
Tapas (no full meals)
Until midnight
Distance to theatre: 3 1/2 blocks
Feb
11
Wed
Session 8: Static Program Analysis and Optimization
Feb 11 @ 9:40 am – 10:55 am

PSLP: Padded SLP Automatic Vectorization
Vasileios Porpodas (University of Cambridge), Alberto Magni (University of Edinburgh), and Timothy M. Jones (University of Cambridge)

A Graph-Based Higher-Order Intermediate Representation
Roland Leißa, Marcel Köster, and Sebastian Hack (Saarland University)

Scalable Conditional Induction Variable (CIV) Analysis
Cosmin E. Oancea (University of Copenhagen) and Lawrence Rauchwerger (Texas A&M University)

Session 9: Runtime Optimization and Techniques
Feb 11 @ 11:15 am – 12:05 pm

Optimizing Binary Translation for Dynamically Generated Code
Byron Hawkins and Brian Demsky (University of California, Irvine) and Derek Bruening and Qin Zhao (Google, Inc.)

MemorySanitizer: fast detector of uninitialized memory use in C++
Evgeniy Stepanov and Konstantin Serebryany (Google)

Awards and Closing
Feb 11 @ 12:05 pm – 12:20 pm