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ISCA - WTAI: Workshop on Technology Architecture Interaction:
Emerging Technologies and Their Impact on Computer Architecture
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IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Computer Architecture
ISCA 2010 Saint-Malo, France
http://isca2010.inria.fr/
9:00 AM-6:00 PM, June 19, 2010

Silicon technology presents a number of unique leverages and challenges for modern processor architectures.While challenges such as reliability, power and temperature issues have started shaping existing micro-architectures; emerging technologies, such as three-dimensional integration, emerging non-volatile memory technologies (such as PCM and MRAM),as well as optical interconnects provide new leverages for performance improvement as the scaling continues. To efficiently exploit the benefits, design techniques and methodologies are imperative. Design space exploration at the architectural level is also essential to fully take advantage of the benefits in order to build high performance computer architectures. The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum to discuss novel architectures/techniques enabled by emerging technologies, as well as focusing on these technologies from an "architects toolbox" point of view.

Please join us for an in-depth look at novel micro-architectures enabled by the availability of emerging technologies.
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Organizers:
- Norm Jouppi (HP Labs)
- Yuan Xie (Penn State University)
- Eren Kursun (IBM Research)

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List of Authors/ Tentative Agenda:
8:30-9:00/Breakfast and Registration

Session 1: Nano-Scale Microarchitectures
9:00-9:40\Reliability Challenges in Next Generation Microarchitectures
Xavier Vera, Intel
9:40-10:20\Architectural Techniques for Technology-awareness
David Brooks, Harvard University
10:00-10:30\Coffee Break and Networking

Session 2: NVM Technologies-Architecture Interaction
10:40-11:20 Phase Change Memory and Trends (tba)
10:40-11:20/Non-Volatile Memory Technologies: An Overview
Roberto Bez, Ugo Russo, Andrea Redaelli - Numonyx
12:30-2:00/Lunch

Session 3: 3D Microarchitectures
2:00-2:40/Technology Trends: 3D Basics
Pol Marchal, M. Badaroglu, 3D Group IMEC
2:40-3:30/3D Microarchitectures
E. Kursun, Y.Xie- IBM, Penn State University
3:30-4:00/Coffee Break

Session 4: Optical Interconnect
4:00-4:40/Optical Networks
Moray McLaren - HP Labs
4:40-5:20/Emerging Interconnect Technologies
Jon Lexau, Ron Ho- Sun/Oracle
5:20-6:00/Q&A - Panel Discussion
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