Theme

The ever-increasing levels of on-chip integration in the recent decade have enabled phenomenal increases in computer system performance. Unfortunately, the performance improvement has been also accompanied by an increase in a chip's power and energy dissipation. Higher power and energy dissipation require more expensive packaging and cooling technology, increase cost, decrease product reliability in all segments of computing market, and significantly reduce battery life in portable systems.

The motivation behind the workshop is to provide a forum to present issues related to power dissipation and energy consumption to the architecture community. In particular, we will discuss power and power-related issues in computer system design, to help understand and overcome the limitations of existing hardware/software solutions for power reduction. Furthermore, we will also present a forum for examining innovative solutions to the power problem for computer systems at all levels of performance.