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*                               Call for Papers                                * 
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*           MoBS: Workshop on Modeling, Benchmarking, and Simulation	         *
*		      http://www.eecs.umich.edu/MoBS                                       *
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Held in conjunction with the
38th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture

San Jose, CA
June 5, 2011

Overview:
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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
* Development of parameterizable, flexible benchmarks
* New benchmark suites for emerging application areas
* Analytical and statistical modeling

Submission Guidelines:
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The full paper should be no more than 6 pages in a double-column format 
and be submitted in pdf format by April 1, 2011. 
Submission instructions are available on the MoBS web site.


Important Dates:
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Paper Submission:	April 1, 2011
Notification Date:	April 29, 2011
Workshop Date:		June 5, 2011


Co-Organizers and Program Co-Chairs:
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Lieven Eeckhout, Ghent University (leeckhou@elis.ugent.be)
Thomas Wenisch, University of Michigan (twenisch@umich.edu)