Workshop
on Energy-efficient Computing for a Sustainable World
In conjunction
with MICRO 44
IEEE/ACM
International Symposium on Microarchitecture
http://www.microarch.org/micro44
December 4th,
2011 – Porto Alegre, Brazil
According to the United States
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), data centers are becoming one of the
fastest growing consumers of the world’s energy supply, with usage levels that
have been doubling every 5 years. As computing systems become an integral part
of society, the demand for computing grows not only in the traditional
computational fields but also in an increasingly wide spectrum of activities
from financial services to entertainment to health care. As a result, computing
and communication devices are projected to become one of the biggest sources of
green house emissions worldwide by the year 2020. A new generation of pervasive
energy efficiency and management techniques are essential in achieving the EPA
targets for energy reduction and in further reducing the CO2
footprint of computing.
In this workshop we focus on cross
stack techniques that leverage the unique capabilities of the individual layers
in the system stack, from hardware management techniques at chip-level to
datacenter-level software, to improve the energy efficiency of computation. The
goal is to take an in-depth look at the emerging opportunities and challenges
in green computing. We are soliciting contributions from members of
industry, academia and national research laboratories. If you would like to
contribute, please submit your extended abstract, of no more than six pages in
two-column IEEE conference proceedings format, using EasyChair
by October 14th, 2011. The contributions will be reviewed by the
Program Committee and the most relevant ones will be selected for presentation
at the workshop. We plan to pursue publication of the selected papers as a
special issue of one of the relevant journals. In addition, invited speakers
from industry, academia and/or government will provide insights on the trends
and solution approaches.
Topics to of interest to the workshop include,
but are not limited to:
· Green
computing: How is it different?
· Energy
efficiency practices in server systems
·
Hardware/software techniques for cross stack energy optimization
· Datacenter
practices: Blade, Rack, Datacenter-level techniques
· Green house
emissions, CO2 footprint, Emission-aware computing
· The role of computing in modeling and reducing energy
consumption and CO2 emissions
Organizers:
· Jose
Moreira – IBM
· Luis Ceze
– University of Washington
· Cesar
De Rose – PUCRS
·
Eren Kursun –
IBM
·
Rodolfo Azevedo – UNICAMP
·
Guido Araujo
– UNICAMP
Technical Program Committee:
· Amir Roth
– Department of Energy, USA
· Cesar Augusto
Missio Marcon – PUCRS
· Christos Kozyrakis - Stanford
· David Albonesi – Cornell
· David Atienza – EPFL
·
Flavio Wagner – UFRGS
·
Guido Araujo – Unicamp
· Jose Renau
– UCSC
· Thomas Wenisch – University of Michigan
Preliminary Program (December 4th): NEW!
|
Time |
Speaker |
Title |
|
13:00-13:45 |
Sandro Rigo (UNICAMP) |
Power Modeling and Characterization for Web Servers in Data Centers |
|
13:45-14:30 |
Erik
Altman (IBM Research) |
Microarchitecture
and Beyond: Reducing Data Center Power |
|
14:30-15:00 |
Ting Cao (Australian National University) |
Virtual Machine Services: An Opportunity for Hardware Customization |
|
15:00-15:30 |
|
|
|
15:30-16:15 |
Karu Sankaralingam (University of
Wisconsin-Madison) |
Dark Silicon: A Paradigm Shift for Microprocessors |
|
16:15-16:45 |
Damien
Hardy (University of Cyprus) |
EETCO:
a tool to Estimate and Explore the implications of datacenter design choices
on the TCO and the environmental impact |
|
16:45-17:30 |
Flavio Wagner (UFRGS) |
Architectural-level energy reduction mechanisms in NoC-based
MPSoCs |