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CALL FOR PAPERS: MICRO 2012
The 45th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture, 2012

December 1 - 5, 2012

http://www.microsymposia.org/micro45/

Abstract deadline: June 1, 2012 (11:59pm EDT)
Paper deadline: June 8, 2012 (11:59pm EDT)
Rebuttal period: Aug 12 - 15, 2012
Notification: Sept 1, 2012

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The International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO) is the premier forum
for presentation and discussion of new ideas in microarchitecture, compilers,
hardware/software interfaces, and design of advanced computing and
communication systems. The goal of MICRO is to bring together researchers in
the fields of microarchitecture, compilers, and systems for technical exchange.
The MICRO community has enjoyed having close interaction between academic
researchers and industrial designers -- we aim to continue and strengthen this
longstanding tradition at the 45th MICRO in Vancouver.

We invite original paper submissions related to but not limited to the
following:

* Hardware, software, and hybrid techniques for improving system
performance, energy-efficiency, cost, complexity, predictability,
quality of service, reliability, dependability, security,
scalability, programmer productivity, etc.
* Processor, memory, storage, interconnect designs
* Architectures for instruction-level, thread-level, and memory-level
parallelism: superscalar, VLIW, data-parallel, multithreaded,
multicore, manycore, etc.
* Compiler and microarchitectural techniques for parallelism (ILP,
TLP, MLP)
* Low-power, high-performance, and cost/complexity-efficient
architectures
* Dynamic optimization, emulation, and object code translation
* Architectures for emerging platforms, including smartphones,
tablets, cloud/datacenter, etc.
* Architectures and compilers for embedded processors, DSPs, GPUs,
ASIPs (network processors, multimedia, wireless, etc.)
* Advanced software/hardware speculation and prediction schemes
* Microarchitecture techniques to better support system software,
programming languages, programmability, and compilation
* Microarchitecture modeling and simulation
* Insightful experimental and comparative evaluation and analysis of
existing microarchitectures, hardware/software mechanisms and
workloads

Submissions should follow the guidelines and formatting rules specified on the
conference website. Papers that violate these guidelines and rules may be
returned to author(s) without review.

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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General Chair:
Stephen Melvin, Consultant

Program Chair:
Onur Mutlu, Carnegie Mellon University

Program Committee:
Tor Aamodt, British Columbia
David Albonesi, Cornell
Krste Asanovic, Berkeley
Todd Austin, Michigan
Rajeev Balasubramonian, Utah
Richard Belgard, Consultant
Pradip Bose, IBM
David Brooks, Harvard
Douglas Carmean, Intel
Derek Chiou, UT Austin
Robert Colwell, DARPA
Tom Conte, Georgia Tech
Chita Das, Penn State
Michel Dubois, USC
Evelyn Duesterwald, IBM
Lieven Eeckhout, Ghent University
Boris Grot, EPFL
Nikos Hardavellas, Northwestern
James Hoe, CMU
Wen-mei Hwu, Illinois
Engin Ipek, Rochester
Daniel Jimenez, UT San Antonio
Hyesoon Kim, Georgia Tech
Konrad Lai, Intel
Gabriel Loh, AMD
Ahmed Louri, NSF and Arizona
Scott Mahlke, Michigan
Srilatha Manne, AMD
Andreas Moshovos, Toronto
Trevor Mudge, Michigan
Yale Patt, UT Austin
Milos Prvulovic, Georgia Tech
Moinuddin Qureshi, Georgia Tech
Ronny Ronen, Intel
Yanos Sazeides, Cyprus
Michael Schlansker, HP Labs
Andre Seznec, IRISA/INRIA
Michael Shebanow, Nvidia
Burton Smith, Microsoft
Jared Smolens, Oracle
Viji Srinivasan, IBM
Chris Wilkerson, Intel
Yuanyuan Zhou, UCSD
Craig Zilles, Illinois

Tutorials and Workshops Chair:
Derek Chiou, UT Austin

Finance Chair:
Tor Aamodt, British Columbia

Web and Submissions Chairs:
Chris Fallin, Carnegie Mellon University
Justin Meza, Carnegie Mellon University
Vivek Seshadri, Carnegie Mellon University

Steering Committee:
David Albonesi, Cornell
Richard Belgard, Consultant (Chair)
Tom Conte, Georgia Tech
Kemal Ebcioglu, Global Supercomputing
Paolo Faraboschi, HP Labs
Wen-mei Hwu, Illinois
Scott Mahlke, Michigan
Margaret Martonosi, Princeton
Bill Mangione-Smith, Consultant
Yale Patt, UT Austin
Milos Prvulovic, Georgia Tech