PACS'04
Workshop on Power-Aware Computer Systems
in conjunction with Micro-37
Portland, OR
December 5th, 2004

Workshop organizers:
Babak Falsafi, Carnegie Mellon (babak@cmu.edu)
T. N. Vijaykumar, Purdue (vijay@ecn.purdue.edu)

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 dissipation. Higher
power dissipation requires 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 workshop on Power-Aware Computer Systems (PACS'04) will be held in
conjunction with the MICRO-37 conference. The motivation behind the
workshop is to provide a forum to present issues related to power
dissipation 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.

TOPICS OF INTEREST:

The topics of interests within the domain of power-aware computer
systems will include but are not limited to: 

- power/thermal reduction in desktops or servers
- power/energy reduction in embedded or portable systems
- power-aware architecture, compilers or OS
- techniques to manage temperature
- techniques to reduce switching or power/energy 
- tools for estimating power/energy/temperature 
- reliability issues related to power optimization


PROCEEDINGS:

Formal proceedings will be published as one issue of Springer-Verlag's
"Lecture Notes in Computer Science" (LNCS) series soon after the
workshop. An informal proceedings will be handed out at the
workshop. Informal proceedings will be handed out at the workshop.

PAPER SUBMISSIONS:

Authors are requested to submit extended abstracts not exceeding 10
PDF pages in 8x11 inch format, including abstract, five key words,
contact address, figures, and references. The PDF file must be
viewable using acrobat. Please send your extended abstracts via email
to pacs04@ece.cmu.edu by October 8th.

SCHEDULE: 

Paper submission:		 October 8th
Notification of acceptance:	 October 29th
Camera-ready due:		 November 6th


Program Committee:
Dave Albonesi			Cornell
Csaba Andras Mortiz		UMass
Krste Asanovic			MIT
Luca Benini			Universita di Bologna
Frederic Chong			UC Davis
Kanad Ghose			SUNY Binghamton
Christos Kozyrakis		Stanford
Uli Kremer			Rutgers
Charles Lefurgy			IBM
Yung-Hsiang Lu			Purdue
Avi Mendelson			Intel
Andreas Moshovos		Toronto
Daniel Mosse			UPitt
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan		Penn State
Li-Shiuan Peh			Princeton
Parthasarathy Ranganathan	HP
Eric Rotenberg			NC State
Mircea Stan			Virginia
Se-Hyun Yang			Samsung