Sixth Annual Workshop on the Interaction between Operating Systems and Computer Architecture

( WIOSCA 2010 )

Held in conjunction with the 2010 International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA-37)


June, Saint-Malo, France

Call for Papers Alternate Formats ( html )

NEWS 05/15/2010: Preliminary Program Announced (Click Here)

Update: Deadline for submitted papers has been extended until Midnight PST April 21!

NEWS 03/25/2010: Paper Submission Site Open (Click Here)


Workshop Overview and Topics:

Operating systems (OS) constitute a major software component and are essential to any computing system. Commercial and server workloads such as online transaction processing, database, file/e-mail servers involve significant OS-level activity. The interactions between OS and emerging architectures (e.g. homogeneous and heterogeneous chip multiprocessors, simultaneous multithreading systems) / technology (e.g. hardware-assisted virtualization) are projected to continuously increase. To optimize system performance/power/reliability/security, it is important to facilitate efficient interaction and cooperation between the two constantly evolving components - computer architecture and OS.

This workshop focuses on characterizing, modeling, and optimizing the interaction between OS and hardware in the light of emerging architecture paradigms, workloads, and computing technology. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Architectural support and mechanisms for OS functionality and services
  • OS support for emerging computer architectures
  • Architectural support for virtual machines and hypervisors
  • Implications of hardware virtualization and virtual machines on OS design
  • Frameworks and tools for full-system simulation
  • Techniques for mitigating the bottlenecks of OS execution
  • OS-aware microarchitecture (e.g. predictor, cache, and execution unit) design
  • Performance, power, dependability, and security in OS
  • Evaluation of the interactions and interference between OS and user applications
  • Workload variability issues full-system evaluation
  • Effect of OS mechanisms (e.g. scheduling, resource management) on emerging architectures
  • Characterization of OS activity in existing and emerging workloads
  • Leveraging OS to optimize reliability/thermal/power
  • Architecture and OS issues in data centers
  • Architecture and OS support for cloud computing
  • Implications of hardware virtualization and virtual machines on OS design
  • Hardware accelerators for important OS services (e.g., networking, data copying)
  • OS-intensive benchmark suites
  • Architecture/OS support for hardware accelerators (e.g., fixed functions, GPUs)

Furthermore, the workshop aims at providing a forum for researchers, engineers, and students from academia and industry to discuss their latest research in computer architecture and OS, to bring their ideas and research problems to the attention of others, and to obtain valuable and instant feedback from fellow researchers.


Workshop Co-Organizers

Tao Li, University of Florida (http://www.taoli.ece.ufl.edu/)
Onur Mutlu, Carnegie Mellon University (http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~omutlu/)
James Poe, Miami Dade College


Publicity/Publication Chair

James Poe, Miami Dade College (jpoe@mdc.edu)


Program Committee:

Brad Beckmann, AMD
Evelyn Duesterwald, IBM Research
Alexandra Fedorova, Simon Fraser University
Nikos Hardavellas, Northwestern University
Jim Larus, Microsoft Research
Shan Lu, University of Wisconsin
Chuck Moore, AMD
Nacho Navarro, UPC
Lu Peng, Louisiana State University
Partha Ranganathan, Hewlett Packard Labs
Ben Sander, AMD
Yanos Sazeides, University of Cyprus
Per Stenstrom, Chalmers University
Osman Unsal, Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Kushagra Vaid, Microsoft
Wei Wu, Intel
Zhao Zhang, Iowa State University


Submission Guidelines:

Please follow this link to the paper submission site: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/WIOSCA2010/

Note: Accounts must be created before the abstract deadline date. Please be sure to confirm and finalize your submission after every modification to save your changes. All submissions can be modified/edited until the paper submission deadline. If you have any questions or problems, feel free to email James Poe.
1. Submit an abstract under 200 words by April 9, 2010.
2. Submit the full paper under 5,000 words by April 16, 2010.

Important Dates
  • Abstract Submission: April 9, 2010.
  • Paper Submission: April 16, 2010 EXTENDED - APRIL 21, 2010.
  • Author Notification: May 7, 2010.
  • Camera-ready Version: May 21, 2010.
  • The workshop will be held in Saint-Malo, France on Saturday, June 19, 2010.



Please feel free to visit the website from last years workshop:
http://www.ideal.ece.ufl.edu/main.php?action=wiosca09