IISWC 2006: San Jose, California, USA

Tutorials, Keynotes

• Rick Altherr, Ryan Du Bois, Lance Hammond, Eric Miller:
  "Software Performance Tuning with the Apple CHUD Tools". 1
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• Nicholas Nethercote, Robert Walsh, Jeremy Fitzhardinge:
  Building Workload Characterization Tools with Valgrind. 2
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• Luiz André Barroso:
  Warehouse-Sized Workloads. 3
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Characterization of Multimedia and Games Workload

• Wenlong Li, Eric Li, Carole Dulong, Yen-Kuang Chen, Tao Wang, Yimin Zhang:
  Workload Characterization of a Parallel Video Mining Application on a 16-Way Shared-Memory Multiprocessor System. 7-16
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• Jordi Roca, Victor Moya Del Barrio, Carlos González, Chema Solis, Agustin Fernández, Roger Espasa:
  Workload Characterization of 3D Games. 17-26
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Energy and Power Behavior of Applications

• Gilberto Contreras, Margaret Martonosi:
  Techniques for Real-System Characterization of Java Virtual Machine Energy and Power Behavior. 29-38
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• Karthick Rajamani, Heather Hanson, Juan Rubio, Soraya Ghiasi, Freeman L. Rawson III:
  Application-Aware Power Management. 39-48
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Characterization and Analysis of Bioinformatics Workload

• Friman Sánchez, Esther Salamí, Alex Ramírez, Mateo Valero:
  Performance Analysis of Sequence Alignment Applications. 51-60
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• Berkin Özisikyilmaz, Ramanathan Narayanan, Joseph Zambreno, Gokhan Memik, Alok N. Choudhary:
  An Architectural Characterization Study of Data Mining and Bioinformatics Workloads. 61-70
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• Paruj Ratanaworabhan, Martin Burtscher:
  Load Instruction Characterization and Acceleration of the BioPerf Programs. 71-79
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Benchmark Construction and Evaluation

• Kenneth Hoste, Lieven Eeckhout:
  Comparing Benchmarks Using Key Microarchitecture-Independent Characteristics. 83-92
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• Joshua J. Yi, Resit Sendag, Lieven Eeckhout, Ajay Joshi, David J. Lilja, Lizy Kurian John:
  Evaluating Benchmark Subsetting Approaches. 93-104
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• Ajay Joshi, Lieven Eeckhout, Robert H. Bell Jr., Lizy Kurian John:
  Performance Cloning: A Technique for Disseminating Proprietary Applications as Benchmarks. 105-115
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SPEC 2006

• Jeff Reilly:
  Evolve or Die: Making SPEC's CPU Suite Relevant Today and Tomorrow. 119
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• Dong Ye, Joydeep Ray, Christophe Harle, David R. Kaeli:
  Performance Characterization of SPEC CPU2006 Integer Benchmarks on x86-64 Architecture. 120-127
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Novel Insights and Techniques

• Dan Tsafrir, Dror G. Feitelson:
  The Dynamics of Backfilling: Solving the Mystery of Why Increased Inaccuracy May Help. 131-141
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• Darshan D. Thaker, Diana Franklin, John Oliver, Susmit Biswas, Derek Lockhart, Tzvetan S. Metodi, Frederic T. Chong:
  Characterization of Error-Tolerant Applications when Protecting Control Data. 142-149
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• Richard M. Yoo, Han Lee, Kingsum Chow, Hsien-Hsin S. Lee:
  Constructing a Non-Linear Model with Neural Networks for Workload Characterization. 150-159
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• Pavlos Petoumenos, Georgios Keramidas, Håkan Zeffer, Stefanos Kaxiras, Erik Hagersten:
  Modeling Cache Sharing on Chip Multiprocessor Architectures. 160-171
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New Benchmarks

• Richard Murphy, Jonathan W. Berry, William McLendon, Bruce Hendrickson, Douglas Gregor, Andrew Lumsdaine:
  DFS: A Simple to Write Yet Difficult to Execute Benchmark. 175-177
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• Oguz Altun, Nilgun Dursunoglu, Mehmet Fatih Amasyali:
  Clustering Application Benchmark. 178-181
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• Ramanathan Narayanan, Berkin Özisikyilmaz, Joseph Zambreno, Gokhan Memik, Alok N. Choudhary:
  MineBench: A Benchmark Suite for Data Mining Workloads. 182-188
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Understanding Java Workload

• Ravi R. Iyer, Mahesh Bhat, Li Zhao, Ramesh Illikkal, Srihari Makineni, Michael Jones, Kumar Shiv, Donald Newell:
  Exploring Small-Scale and Large-Scale CMP Architectures for Commercial Java Servers. 191-200
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• Walter Binder, Jarle Hulaas, Philippe Moret:
  A Quantitative Evaluation of the Contribution of Native Code to Java Workloads. 201-209
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High Performance Computing Workload

• John Brevik, Daniel Nurmi, Richard Wolski:
  Predicting Bounds on Queuing Delay in Space-shared Computing Environments. 213-224
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• Sadaf R. Alam, Richard F. Barrett, Jeffery A. Kuehn, Philip C. Roth, Jeffrey S. Vetter:
  Characterization of Scientific Workloads on Systems with Multi-Core Processors. 225-236
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