Program:

9:00 to 10:15, Session 1: Hardware-based Profiling (Chair: Jim Larus)

Transparent, Low-Overhead Profiling on Modern Processors (Invited Talk)

Jennifer Anderson (Western Research Laboratory (WRL)), Lance Berc (Systems Research Center (SRC)), George Chrysos (Digital Semiconductor), Jeffrey Dean (WRL), Sanjay Ghemawat (SRC), Jamey Hicks (Cambridge Research Laboratory), Shun-Tak Leung (SRC), Mitch Lichtenberg (SRC), Mark Vandevoorde (SRC), Carl A. Waldspurger (SRC), William E. Weihl (SRC), all of Compaq Computer Corporation

 

Performance Monitoring Hardware Design Issues for Dynamically Scheduled Processors

Andy Glew (University of Wisconsin -- Madison)

 

10:15 to 10:30, Break

10:30 to 12:15, Session 2: Iterative Feedback Compilation (Chair: Evelyn Duesterwald)

Model-Based Memory Hierarchy Optimizations for Sparse Matrices

Eun-Jin Im and Katherine Yelick (University of California, Berkeley)

 

Iterative Compilation in a Non-Linear Optimisation Space

F. Bodin (IRISA), T. Kisuk (Leiden University), P.M.W. Knijnenburg (Leiden University), M.F.P. O'Boyle (The University, Edinburgh) and E.Rohou (IRISA)

 

GAPS: Iterative Feedback Directed Parallelisation Using Genetic Algorithms

Andy P. Nisbet (University of Manchester)

 

12:15 to 2:00, Lunch

2:00 to 3:45, Session 3: Program Behavior and Path Profiling (Chair: Brad Calder)

Analyzing Path Profiles with the Hot Path Browser

Thomas Ball (Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies), James R. Larus (Microsoft), and Genevieve Rosay (University of Wisconsin -- Madison)

 

Using Path Spectra to Direct Function Cloning

Tom Way and Lori Pollock (University of Delaware)

 

Computing the Similarity of Profiling Data -- Heuristics for Guiding Adaptive Compilation

Thomas Kistler and Michael Franz (University of California, Irvine)

 

3:45 to 4:00, Break

4:00 to 5:30, Session 4: Performance Profiling and Optimization (Chair: Jesse Fang)

IPERF: A Framework for Automatic Construction of Performance Prediction Models

Chung-Hsing Hsu and Ulrich Kremer (Rutgers University)

 

Profile-Supported Confidence Estimation for Load-Value-Prediction

Martin Burtscher and Benjamin G. Zorn (University of Colorado)

 

Considerations on Dynamically Allocated Data Structure Layout Optimization

Dan Truong (ENSSAT-LASTI / IRISA)