BARC 2006 - Call for Abstracts





	Fourth Annual Boston Area Architecture Workshop Call for Abstracts Friday, February 3, 2006 http://www.ele.uri.edu/barc2006 University of Rhode Island University Club 95 Upper College Rd. Kingston, RI Invitation: In BARC's fourth year, we again welcome the opportunity to bring together computer architecture experts and wannabes in the Greater Boston area. BARC is informal. There will be numerous 15-30 minute presentations and long discussion breaks. New to BARC, there will also be a keypanel session, combining the best features of keynote speeches and panel sessions. The end user, industry, and academic communities will each be represented by one keypanelist. Three 15-minute keypanelist presentations will be followed by one 15-minute audience Q & A session. We invite abstracts, two pages or less, for consideration for presentation at BARC. As always, elegant as well as preliminary solutions to architectural problems are welcome. We also strongly encourage submissions concerning future expected problems. Such abstracts and presentations need not contain solutions, actual or proposed. Authors may present work they have already published elsewhere or plan to publish in the future. We welcome participation from those outside of the Greater Boston area. Please send your abstract (in plain-text email or PDF) to: Gus Uht, uht@ele.uri.edu Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: microarchitecture, multiprocessors, multicore processors, memory systems, I/O, networking, low power, adaptive systems, nanoelectronics-based architectures, embedded processing and performance evaluation techniques. Important Dates: (Abstract Submission deadline: PAST) (Author Notification: Tuesday, December 20, 2005: PAST) Advance Registration deadline: Friday, January 20, 2006 ==> Advance Registration is required for all <== Final abstract and slides due: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 Workshop Date: Friday, February 3, 2006 (Snow Date: Friday, March 3, 2006, same location.) See Registration and Program for more information.



	Keypanel Session: As previously mentioned, the end user, industry, and academic communities will each be represented by one keypanelist. Three 15-minute keypanelist presentations will be followed by one 15-minute audience Q & A session. General Topic: Whence goeth the microprocessor? Specific questions to each keypanelist representative: * to End Users: What does the commercial user want today? In 5 years? In 10 years? * to Industry: What will/should industry provide today? In 5 years? In 10 years? * to Academia: What will/should academia be looking at today? In 5 years? In 10 years?
	The Keypanelists: We are extremely fortunate to have the following practitioners and researchers represent: * End Users: Dr. Atul Chhabra, Verizon Corp., Enterprise Architect and Senior IT Manager. Responsible for corporate systems serving over 100,000 employees. * Industry: Dr. Joel Emer, Intel Corp., Intel Fellow. IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, Chief architect of many leading-edge commercial microprocessors. * Academia: Prof. Anant Agarwal, MIT, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Lead hardware/software architect for several major academic prototype processors. (More detailed and comprehensive bios to follow.)


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