ISPASS 2008: Austin, Texas, USA

Accelerating Simulation

• Michael Pellauer, Muralidaran Vijayaraghavan, Michael Adler, Arvind, Joel S. Emer:
  Quick Performance Models Quickly: Closely-Coupled Partitioned Simulation on FPGAs. 1-10
  
• Paruj Ratanaworabhan, Martin Burtscher:
  Program Phase Detection based on Critical Basic Block Transitions. 11-21
  
• Ayose Falcón, Paolo Faraboschi, Daniel Ortega:
  An Adaptive Synchronization Technique for Parallel Simulation of Networked Clusters. 22-31
  

Parallelism

• Derek L. Schuff, Yung Ryn Choe, Vijay S. Pai:
  Conservative vs. Optimistic Parallelization of Stateful Network Intrusion Detection. 32-43
  
• William R. Dieter, Henry G. Dietz:
  Computer Aided Engineering of Cluster Computers. 44-53
  
• Lee Baugh, Craig B. Zilles:
  An Analysis of I/O And Syscalls In Critical Sections And Their Implications For Transactional Memory. 54-62
  

Networking

• Ali G. Saidi, Nathan L. Binkert, Steven K. Reinhardt, Trevor N. Mudge:
  Full-System Critical Path Analysis. 63-74
  
• Kaushik Kumar Ram, Ian C. Fedeli, Alan L. Cox, Scott Rixner:
  Explaining the Impact of Network Transport Protocols on SIP Proxy Performance. 75-84
  
• Osman Hasan, Sofiène Tahar:
  Performance Analysis of ARQ Protocols using a Theorem Prover. 85-94
  

Scientific Workloads

• Collin McCurdy, Alan L. Cox, Jeffrey S. Vetter:
  Investigating the TLB Behavior of High-end Scientific Applications on Commodity Microprocessors. 95-104
  
• Ying Zhang, Xuejun Yang, Guibin Wang, Ian Rogers, Gen Li, Yu Deng, Xiaobo Yan:
  Scientific Computing Applications on a Stream Processor. 105-114
  
• Gabriel Marin, John M. Mellor-Crummey:
  Pinpointing and Exploiting Opportunities for Enhancing Data Reuse. 115-126
  

Workload Analysis and Simulation

• Omid Azizi, Jamison D. Collins, Dinesh Patil, Hong Wang, Mark Horowitz:
  Processor Performance Modeling using Symbolic Simulation. 127-138
  
• Valentina Salapura, Karthik Ganesan, Alan Gara, Michael Gschwind, James C. Sexton, Robert Walkup:
  Next-Generation Performance Counters: Towards Monitoring Over Thousand Concurrent Events. 139-146
  
• Hashem Hashemi Najaf-abadi, Eric Rotenberg:
  Configurational Workload Characterization. 147-156
  

Benchmarks

• Kenneth Hoste, Lieven Eeckhout:
  Characterizing the Unique and Diverse Behaviors in Existing and Emerging General-Purpose and Domain-Specific Benchmark Suites. 157-168
  
• Vassilios N. Christopoulos, David J. Lilja, Paul R. Schrater, Apostolos P. Georgopoulos:
  Independent Component Analysis and Evolutionary Algorithms for Building Representative Benchmark Subsets. 169-178
  
• ElMoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Kshitij A. Doshi, Charles Yount, James Woodlee:
  Characterization of SPEC CPU2006 and SPEC OMP2001: Regression Models and their Transferability. 179-190
  

Heat and Reliability

• Jun Yang, Xiuyi Zhou, Marek Chrobak, Youtao Zhang, Lingling Jin:
  Dynamic Thermal Management through Task Scheduling. 191-201
  
• Pradeep Ramachandran, Sarita V. Adve, Pradip Bose, Jude A. Rivers:
  Metrics for Architecture-Level Lifetime Reliability Analysis. 202-212
  

The Cell Processor

• Marina Biberstein, Uzi Shvadron, J. Turek, Bilha Mendelson, Moon S. Chang:
  Trace-based Performance Analysis on Cell BE. 213-222
  
• Jizhu Lu, Michael Perrone, Kursad Albayraktaroglu, Manoj Franklin:
  HMMer-Cell: High Performance Protein Profile Searching on the Cell/B.E. Processor. 223-232