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*           MoBS: Workshop on Modeling, Benchmarking, and Simulation	       *
*		      http://www-mount.ece.umn.edu/~jjyi/MoBS		       *
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	  		  Held in conjunction with the
	  36th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture

                                Austin, Texas
				June 21, 2009

Overview:
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With few exceptions, simulation is the quantitative foundation for 
virtually all computer architecture research and design projects from 
microarchitectural exploration to hardware and software trade-offs to 
processor and system design.  However, its continued efficacy is limited 
by the need to model or compensate for problems such as increasing 
complexity (e.g., multiple cores and peripherals), additional critical 
constraints (e.g., power consumption, reliability, etc.), an 
ever-expanding design space (e.g., chip, system, and data center scale 
modeling), and benchmark suite quality and coverage.

Accordingly, the goals of this workshop are to accelerate the 
development of technologies that are necessary to support the research 
of future generation architectures and to encourage the advancement of 
under-researched areas in computer architecture measurement. 
Accordingly, this workshop places a special premium on novelty and on 
preliminary work. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* System-level architecture modeling and measurement
* Data center level modeling and measurement
* Performance/energy/temperature/reliability measurement and analysis tools
* New or efficient techniques to model performance, power, temperature, 
  reliability, etc.
* Simulation methodologies for multi-core and many-core architectures
* Development of parameterizable, flexible benchmarks
* New benchmark suites for emerging application areas
* Analytical and statistical modeling
* Performance/energy/temperature/reliability measurement and analysis tools

The special emphasis of MoBS-5 will be on system level architecture, 
data center level issues, enterprise-scale benchmarks, and tools 
submissions in this area will be especially encouraged.


Submission Guidelines:
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The full paper should be no more than 10 pages in a double-column format 
and be submitted in pdf format by April 17, 2009. Papers should be 
submitted to Lieven Eeckhout (leeckhou@elis.ugent.be) via e-mail.


Important Dates:
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Paper Submission:	April 24, 2009
Notification Date:	May 13, 2009
Final Version Due:	June 1, 2009
Workshop Date:		June 21, 2009


Co-Organizers and Program Co-Chairs:
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Lieven Eeckhout, Ghent University (leeckhou@elis.ugent.be)
Thomas Wenisch, University of Michigan (twenisch@umich.edu)
Joshua J. Yi, Freescale Semiconductor (jjyi@ece.umn.edu)


Program Committee:
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Alaa Alameldeen, Intel
Nathan Binkert, Hewlett-Packard
Derek Chiou, University of Texas at Austin
Paolo Faraboschi, Hewlett-Packard
Tejas Karkhanis, IBM Research
Benjamin Lee, Microsoft
Charles Lefurgy, IBM Research
Margaret Martonosi, Princeton University
David Penry, Brigham Young University
Suzanne Rivoire, Sonoma State University