Session 1: (1:30-3:00 PM)

Keynote Speech: Prof. David Albonesi, University of Cornell
Title: "Adaptive Multi-threaded Microprocessors"

Multi-threaded microprocessors exacerbate the variability in behavior observed in common workloads. As applications with extremes in behavior are coupled with like applications, even more extreme behavior may be observed. This extreme variability in workload demand results in hardware inefficiencies in a static, non-adaptive microprocessor, and may even increase system cost.
Adaptation to workload demands comes in many forms for many purposes. A common theme is the dynamic, runtime management of hardware to increase hardware efficiency, or to prevent some specification (temperature, noise) from being exceeded. In this talk, I will discuss some recent results in dynamically adapting multi-threaded microprocessors to varying workload behavior.

"Mapping Streaming Architectures on Reconfigurable Platforms" Nikolaos Bellas, Sek M. Chai, Malcolm Dwyer, Dan Linzmeier Embedded Systems Research, Motorola Labs

Session 2: (3:30- 5:00PM)

"Custom Code Generation for Soft Processors" Martin Labrecque, Peter Yiannacouras and J. Gregory Steffan, University of Toronto

"Improving Instruction Level Parallelism through Reconfigurable Units in Superscalar Processors" Tameesh Suri, State University of New York at Binghamton

"Architectural Contesting: Exposing and Exploiting Temperamental Behavior", Hashem H. Najaf-abadi Eric Rotenberg, North Carolina State University