MoBS 2011 - MoBS-7: 7th Workshop on Modeling, Benchmarking, and Simulation

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
? Simulator validation
? Development of parameterizable, flexible benchmarks
? New benchmark suites for emerging application areas
? Analytical and statistical modeling