From: Chris Newburn <cnewburn@ichips.intel.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 14:06:49 -0800
Subject: CFP for Feedback-Directed Optimization Workshop, with MICRO-32

			   CALL FOR PAPERS

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	 2nd Workshop on Feedback-Directed Optimization (FDO)
		   Haifa, Israel, November 15, 1999
	      www-cse.ucsd.edu/users/calder/fdo/

		       In Conjunction with the
       32nd Annual International Symposium on Microarchitecture
			 November 16-18, 1999

			   Important Dates:
   Submission: Sep. 24;  Acceptance: Oct. 16; Final version: Nov. 4

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The Second Workshop on Feedback-Directed Optimization provides a forum
for a burgeoning field: the use of information collected at runtime to
improve program performance. The hard ISA boundary separating software
and hardware is becoming more permeable as the hardware passes
information up to the software, and the software can both use that
information to direct optimization and specialization, and employ
global analysis and program knowledge to direct the hardware. This
workshop brings together researchers that span the spectrum of
hardware and software techniques to explore tradeoffs concerning when,
where and how feedback information should be leveraged. Topics of
interest include, but are not limited to:

     Profile-based static compilation 
     Adaptive execution, dynamic compilation/translation and continuous 
	profiling/optimization 
     Caching feedback-specialized versions of code in hardware 
     Passing/storing feedback information and optimized code to software 
     Hints in the ISA to guide execution 
     Mechanisms for low-cost performance monitoring (e.g., S/W-based event 
	sampling, H/W performance counters) 
     Techniques for estimating the benefit of feedback-directed optimization 
     Experience with real systems 

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Submission Guidelines: Talks will be accepted on the basis of a short
paper that describes the work and the novel algorithms or experiences
that resulted from it. Email a ghostviewable PostScript uuencoded
file, (Adobe PDF format is also acceptable) no longer than 10 pages
(including figures, references, and appendix) using 11pt font to
fdo@cs.ucsd.edu by September 24th, 1999. Send email if these
requirements are a hardship. At the top of the email submission (in
text) include (1) title of paper, (2) list of authors, (3) email and
phone number of contact author, and (4) a 200 word summary of
paper. In addition, include the contact information on the title page
of the paper. You should receive a confirmation of your submission by
the following week. Final versions of papers will be due November
4. All accepted papers will be presented at the workshop and included
in an informal proceedings that will be distributed at the workshop.
In addition, accepted papers will be made available on the workshop
home page.

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Co-Chairs: 

     Brad Calder, calder@cs.ucsd.edu 
     Chris J. Newburn, cnewburn@ichips.intel.com 

Program Committee: 

     Todd Austin, University of Michigan 
     Brad Calder , UC San Diego 
     Tom Conte, North Carolina State 
     Susan Eggers, University of Washington 
     Jim Larus, Microsoft 
     Scott Mahlke, Hewlett Packard 
     Scott McFarling, Microsoft 
     Chris J. Newburn, Intel 
     Jim Smith, University of Wisconsin 
     Mike Smith, Harvard 
     Bill Weihl, Compaq 
     Cliff Young, Lucent 

Important Dates:

     Papers due: September 24
     Notification of acceptance: October 16
     Final version of papers due: November 4

Web site: www-cse.ucsd.edu/users/calder/fdo/