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

Sponsored by ACM SIGMICRO. In Cooperation with ACM SIGPLAN.

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There are 2 sources for student travel grants:

• Students may apply for student travel grants from ACM SIGPLAN Professional Activities Committee (PAC). Fill out and submit the student application form to SIGPLAN PAC as soon as you are notified of the acceptance of your paper. Decisions are usually made within 2 weeks after you submit your application.

• ACM SIGMICRO will also be providing student travel grants, and you can apply for these grants from the MICRO-32 home page. If you submit a paper to FDO, fill out the application form by October 10th. When filling out the application form put Submitted to FDO: followed by your paper title, in the paper title field. Note that the notification of acceptance for the workshop is October 13th, so you will need to apply for the student travel grant before you hear about the status of your paper. If your paper is accepted, you will need to register for MICRO-32 ASAP (e.g., by October 14th) in order to be considered for the student travel grant.

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

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. If you are having problems with the on-line submission form, email your ghostviewable PostScript or Adobe PDF uuencoded paper to fdo@cs.ucsd.edu by the deadline. The paper can be no longer than 10 pages (including figures, references, and appendix) using 11pt font. 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. Camera-ready 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.

Submission Restrictions: Concurrent submission is allowed. For the FDO workshop, we want to discuss current and new research that has not already been presented in a prior conference nor sent out in mass distribution via a journal. Therefore, you are allowed to submit a paper that is currently submitted for publication elsewhere, but you should not submit already published papers.

Important Dates:

Papers due: September 27
Notification of acceptance: October 13
Final version of papers due: November 4

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

Related links:

• Micro-32
• 1st Workshop on Feedback-Directed Optimization