WEED 2012 - Fourth Workshop on Energy-Efficient Design

We are pleased to request papers for presentation at the upcoming Fourth Workshop on Energy Efficient Design (WEED 2012), which is being held in conjunction with ISCA 2012. The workshop will provide a forum for the exchange of ideas in research on critical areas relating to energy-efficient computing, including energy-aware design techniques for systems (large and small), energy management policies and mechanisms, and standards for evaluating energy efficiency. We hope to attract a broad mix of researchers from both academia and industry.
To encourage discussion between participants, the WEED 2012 workshop format will include significant time for discussion between presenters and the audience. We also plan to have a keynote speaker and/or panel session.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
VLSI and Microarchitecture
Energy-efficient CMOS devices and technology
Energy-efficient microarchitecture and circuits design
Energy-efficient memory and storage technologies
Designs that tackle technology scaling limitations and the impact of process variability on power consumption
Adaptive design for dynamic power management
Systems
Power-aware compilers, operating systems, hypervisors, workload managers, and other energy-aware software
Energy-efficient memory and storage systems
Energy-efficient server, network and embedded system designs
Packaging and cooling of components and systems
Instrumentation, monitoring, and control infrastructures for adaptive power management solutions
Datacenter
Planning and analysis tools for energy-efficient datacenter design
Energy-efficient power distribution and facilities cooling designs
Case studies of design impact/improvements for DC efficiency
Community
Design and analysis of power/performance benchmarks
Designs that consider and mitigate lifetime exergy costs
Design of standards/common APIs to facilitate cross-stack/cross-vendor power management
The workshop seeks to promote both well-designed solutions that tackle the complexity of realizing real-world energy-efficient system implementations as well as emerging, novel approaches to energy-efficient design. We encourage both industry and academic researchers to submit their research. Preliminary results of interesting ideas are welcome. Submissions that are likely to generate vigorous discussion will be favored!