PRISM 2016 - 4th Annual Workshop on Parallelism in Mobile Platforms (PRISM-4)

The 4th Annual Workshop on Parallelism in Mobile Platforms (PRISM-4)
Co-located with ISCA-43 in Seoul, Korea
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One of the most important principles in designing today's computing
systems is to exploit parallelism. Mobile platforms are no exception
and we find increasingly more instances of the use of parallelism in
them. At the hardware level, there are: multiple processor cores,
GPGPU, accelerators, multiple banks of memory, multiple channels to
non-volatile memory chips, and multiple radios, to name a few. At the
software level, parallel and concurrent threading techniques are
commonly employed to improve responsiveness and throughput in the OS
and applications alike. We anticipate that future mobile platforms will
make more extensive and creative use of parallelism. This workshop
focuses on how parallelism is, and can be, utilized in hardware,
software and their interaction in order to improve the user experiences
with mobile platforms. Topics of particular interest include, but are
not limited to:
- Emerging parallel application processor architectures and hardware
features in mobile platforms;
- Compelling future applications on mobile platforms that call for
unprecedented parallelism;
- Mobile GPGPU architectures and programming models;
- Hardware accelerators for mobile/IoT applications;
- Storage architectures in mobile/IoT platforms;
- Radio and networking architectures in mobile/IoT platforms;
- Compiler support for parallel mobile platforms;
- OS support to accommodate and promote parallelism in mobile
platforms;
- Experiences in parallel mobile applications development;
- Novel techniques to improve responsiveness by exploiting parallelism;
- Novel techniques to improve performance/energy by exploiting
parallelism;
- Mobile/IoT platform performance evaluation methodologies;
- Application benchmarks for mobile/IoT platforms;
- Characterization of emerging workloads on mobile/IoT platforms;
- IoT Enabling technologies (smart sensors, energy harvesting, sensor
networks, etc.);
The workshop aims at providing a forum for researchers, engineers and
students from academia and industry to discuss their latest research in
designing mobile platforms and systems, to bring their ideas and
research problems to the attention of others, and to obtain valuable
and instant feedback from fellow researchers.
== Submission Guidelines ==
Submit a 2-page presentation abstract to a web-based submission system
(https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/PRISM2016/) by April 17, 2016.
Notification of acceptance will be sent out by May 5, 2016. Final
presentation material (to be posted on the workshop web site) due June
6, 2016. For additional information regarding paper submissions, please
contact the organizers.
== Important Dates ==
Abstract submission : April 17, 2016
Author notification : May 5, 2016
Final camera-ready paper : June 6, 2016
Workshop : June 18, 2016
== Workshop Organizers ==
Sangyeun Cho, Samsung Electronics Co. (sangyeun.cho-AT-samsung.com)
Hyesoon Kim, Georgia Tech (hyesoon-AT-cc.gatech.edu)
Hsien-Hsin Lee, Georgia Tech (leehs-AT-cc.gatech.edu)
Giho Park, Sejong Univ. (ghpark-AT-sejong.ac.kr)
Vijay Janapa Reddi, UT Austin (vj-AT-ece.utexas.edu)
== Web Chair ==
Minkwan Kee, Sejong Univ. (mkkee-AT-sju.ac.kr)
Seungjin Lee, Sejong Univ. (lsjmax2-AT-sju.ac.kr)