Workshops & Tutorials (all day Feb 7 & 8)
Sunday, February 8, 2015
Evening Welcome Reception and SRC Posters
Monday, February 9, 2015
8:30AM-8:50AM Conference Openings
8:50AM-10:00AM Keynote: Paolo Faraboschi, HP Labs, The Machine
10:00AM-10:20AM Break
10:20AM-12:00PM Session 1: GPU Optimization
Session Chair: Christophe Dubach
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)
12:00PM-13:30PM Lunch
13:30PM-14:45PM Session 2: Tools and Debugging
Session Chair: Cheng Wang
A Parallel Abstract Interpreter for JavaScript
Kyle Dewey, Vineeth Kashyap, and Ben Hardekopf (University of California, Santa Barbara)
MemorySanitizer: fast detector of uninitialized memory use in C++
Evgeniy Stepanov and Konstantin Serebryany (Google)
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)
14:45PM-15:10PM Break
15:10PM-16:50PM Session 3: Runtime Optimization and Techniques
Session Chair: Vijay Reddi
Optimizing Binary Translation for Dynamically Generated Code
Byron Hawkins and Brian Demsky (University of California, Irvine) and Derek Bruening and Qin Zhao (Google, Inc.)
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)
Reactive Tiling
Jithendra Srinivas (Intel), Wei Ding, and Mahmut Kandemir (Penn State)
16:50PM-17:15PM Break
17:15PM-17:40PM Session 4a: Artifact Evaluation Discussion (Joint with PPoPP)
Session Chairs: Jason Mars and Robert Hundt
17:15PM-18:15PM Session 4b: Student Research Competition (SRC) Presentations
Session Chair: Mike Ferdman
19:00PM-20:00PM Business meeting
Tuesday, February 10, 2015
8:25AM-9:40AM Session 5: Microarchitecture
Session Chair: Mike Ferdman
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)
9.40AM-10:05AM Break
10:05AM-11:45AM Session 6: Parallelism and Concurrency
Session Chair: Simone Campanoni
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)
11:45AM-13:15PM Lunch
13:15PM-14:25PM Keynote: Dharmendra S Modha, IBM, Brain-Inspired Computing
14:25PM-14:45PM Break
14:45PM-16:00PM Session 7: Code Generation and Optimization
Session Chair: Behnam Robatmili
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)
16:00PM Excursion
Wednesday, February 11, 2015
8:15AM-9:25AM Keynote: David Wecker, Microsoft Research, Quantum Languages and Compilers
9:25AM-9:40AM Break
9:40AM-10:55AM Session 8: Static Program Analysis and Optimization
Session Chair: Jingyue Wu
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)
10:55AM-11:15AM Break
11:15AM-12:40PM Session 9: Best Paper Session
Session Chair: Jason Mars
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)
12:40PM-13:00PM Awards and Closing