Main Conference Program
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| Day 1: | September 23rd, Monday |
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| 8:00am-5:00pm | Registration (Room: Foyer 3) |
| 7:30am-8:20am | Continental Breakfast (Room: Emerald Ballroom 2) |
| 8:20am-8:30am | Welcome from the Chairs (Room: Emerald Ballroom 1) Andrew Lumsdaine, General Chair; P. (Saday) Sadayappan, Program Chair |
| 8:30am-9:30am | Keynote – Resource Efficiency and Performance in the Cloud (Room: Emerald Ballroom 1) Speaker: Dr. Kathryn McKinley (Google) Chair: Lawrence Rauchwerger (University of Illinois) |
| 9:30am-10:00am | Coffee Break |
| 10:00am-12:00pm | Session 1: Best-Papers Session (Room: Emerald Ballroom 1) Chair: Muthu Baskaran (Reservoir Labs) |
| MASR: A Modular Accelerator for Sparse RNNs [Paper] Udit Gupta (Harvard University); Brandon Reagen (Facebook); Lillian Pentecost, Marco Donato, Thierry Tambe (Harvard University); Alexander Rush (Harvard SEAS); Gu-Yeon Wei, David Brooks (Harvard University) |
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| Gluon-Async: A Bulk-Asynchronous System for Distributed and Heterogeneous Graph Analytics [Paper] Roshan Dathathri, Gurbinder Gill, Loc Hoang (University of Texas at Austin); Hoang-Vu Dang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign); Vishwesh Jatala (University of Texas at Austin); V Krishna Nandivada (Indian Institute of Technology Madras); Marc Snir (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign); Keshav Pingali (University of Texas at Austin) |
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| BOLT: Optimizing OpenMP Parallel Regions with User-Level Threads [Paper] Shintaro Iwasaki (The University of Tokyo); Halim Amer (Argonne National Labs); Kenjiro Taura (The University of Tokyo); Sangmin Seo, Pavan Balaji (Argonne National Laboratory) |
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| SMT-COP: Defeating Side-Channel Attacks on Execution Units in SMT Processors [Paper] Daniel Townley (State University of New York at Binghamton); Dmitry Ponomarev (State Univeristy of New York at Binghamton) |
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| 12:00pm-12:10pm | Callout: PACT20 (Room: Emerald Ballroom 1) Hyesoon Kim, Program Chair, PACT20 |
| 12:10pm-1:30pm | Lunch Buffet (Room: Emerald Ballroom 2) |
| 1:30pm-3:00pm | Session 2A: Compiler Optimization and Code Generation 1 (Room: Emerald Ballroom 1) Chair: Ayal Zaks (Intel Haifa and Technion) |
| Type-Directed Program Synthesis and Constraint Generation for Library Portability [Paper] Bruce Collie, Philip Ginsbach, Michael F. P. O’Boyle (The University of Edinburgh) |
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| Deepframe: A Profile-driven Compiler for Spatial Hardware Accelerators [Paper] Apala Guha, Naveen Vedula (Simon Fraser University); Arrvindh Shriraman (Simon-Fraser University) |
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| Fast Parallel Equivalence Relations in a Datalog Compiler [Paper] Patrick Nappa, David Zhao (The University of Sydney, Australia); Pavle Subotic (Amazon); Bernhard Scholz (The University of Sydney, Australia) |
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| Session 2B: Memory/Storage Systems 1 (Room: Emerald Ballroom 3) Chair: Biswabandan Panda (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur) |
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| Enforcing Last-level Cache Partitioning through Memory Virtual Channels [Paper] Jungwook Chung (Seoul National University); Yuhwan Ro (Samsung Electronics); Joonsung Kim (Seoul National University); Jaehyung Ahn (POSTECH); Jangwoo Kim (Seoul National University); John Kim (KAIST); Jae W. Lee, Jung Ho Ahn (Seoul National University) |
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| To Stack or Not to Stack [Paper] Richard Afoakwa, Lejie Lu, Hui Wu, Michael Huang (University of Rochester) |
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| Enforcing Crash Consistency of Evolving Network Analytics in Non-Volatile Main Memory Systems [Paper] Soklong Lim (Washington State University Vancouver); Zaixin Lu (Amazon); Bin Ren (College of William and Mary); Xuechen Zhang (Washington State University Vancouver) |
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| 3:00pm-3:30pm | Coffee Break |
| 3:30pm-4:30pm | Session 3A: Hardware/Software for Security (Room: Emerald Ballroom 1) Chair: Wu-Chun Feng (Virginia Tech.) |
| Fooling the Sense of Cross-core Last-level Cache Eviction based Attacker by Prefetching Common Sense [Paper] Biswabandan Panda (IIT Kanpur) |
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| SpecShield: Shielding Speculative Data from Microarchitectural Covert Channels [Paper] Kristin Barber (The Ohio State University); Anys Bacha (University of Michigan); Li Zhou, Yinqian Zhang, Radu Teodorescu (The Ohio State University) |
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| Session 3B: Hardware/Software for Machine Learning (Room: Emerald Ballroom 3) Chair: Cathie Olschanowsky (Boise State University) |
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| MOSAIC: Heterogeneity-, Communication-, and Constraint-Aware Model Slicing and Execution for Accurate and Efficient Inference [Paper] Myeonggyun Han, Jihoon Hyun, Seongbeom Park, Jinsu Park, Woongki Baek (UNIST) |
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| Acorns: A Framework for Accelerating Deep Neural Networks with Input Sparsity [Paper] Xiao Dong, Lei Liu, Xiaobing Feng (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences) |
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| 6:00pm-8:00pm | Poster Session & Reception (Room: Emerald Ballroom 2) Click here for Poster list |
| Day 2: | September 24th, Tuesday |
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| 8:00am-5:00pm | Registration (Room: Foyer 3) |
| 7:30am-8:30am | Continental Breakfast (Room: Emerald Ballroom 2) |
| 8:30am-9:30am | Keynote – Bridging the Gap Between Deep Learning Models and “the Metal” with Apache TVM & VTA (Room: Emerald Ballroom 1) Speaker: Dr. Luis Ceze (University of Washington) Chair: Radu Teodorescu (Ohio State University) |
| 9:30am-10:00am | Coffee Break |
| 10:00am-11:30am | Session 4A: Concurrency Management (Room: Emerald Ballroom 1) Chair: Yong Chen (Texas Tech. University) |
| Forgive-TM: Supporting Lazy Conflict Detection In Eager Hardware Transactional Memory [Paper] Sunjae Park (Georgia Institute of Technology); Christopher Hughes (Intel); Milos Prvulovic (Georgia Institute of Technology) |
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| Unfair Scheduling Patterns in NUMA Architectures [Paper] Naama Ben-David, Ziv Scully, Guy E. Blelloch (Carnegie Mellon University) |
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| Optimizing Persistent Memory Transactions [Paper] Pantea Zardoshti, Tingzhe Zhou (Lehigh University); Yujie Liu (Google); Michael Spear (Lehigh University) |
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| Session 4B: Heterogeneous Systems and Accelerators 1 (Room: Emerald Ballroom 3) Chair: Huiyang Zhou (North Carolina State University) |
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| HeTM: Transactional Memory for Heterogeneous Systems [Paper] Daniel Castro, Paolo Romano, Aleksandar Ilic (Instituto Superior Técnico & INESC-ID); Amin M Khan (UiT The Arctic University of Norway) |
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| Achieving scalability in a k-NN multi-GPU network service with Centaur [Paper] Amir Wated (Technion and Cisco); Alexander Libov (Amazon); Ohad Shacham, Edward Bortnikov (Yahoo! Labs); Mark Silberstein (Technion) |
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| Analyzing and Leveraging Remote-core Bandwidth for Enhanced Performance in GPUs [Paper] Mohamed Ibrahim, Hongyuan Liu (College of William & Mary); Onur Kayiran (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.); Adwait Jog (College of William & Mary) |
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| 12:00pm-1:00pm | Lunch Buffet (Room: Emerald Ballroom 2) |
| 1:30pm-3:00pm | Session 5A: Domain/Application-Specific Hardware/Software (Room: Emerald Ballroom 1) Chair: P. (Saday) Sadayappan (University of Utah) |
| Specialization Opportunities in Graphical Workloads [Paper] Lewis Crawford, Michael O’Boyle (University of Edinburgh) |
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| FindeR: Accelerating FM-Index-based Exact Pattern Matching in Genomic Sequences through ReRAM technology [Paper] Farzaneh Zokaee (Indiana University Bloomington); Mingzhe Zhang (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences); Lei Jiang (Indiana University Bloomington) |
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| SLAMBooster: An Application-aware Online Controller for Approximation in Dense SLAM [Paper] Yan Pei (The University of Texas at Austin); Swarnendu Biswas (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur); Donald Fussell, Keshav Pingali (The University of Texas at Austin) |
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| Session 5B: Heterogeneous Systems and Accelerators 2 (Room: Emerald Ballroom 3) Chair: Radu Teodorescu (Ohio State University) |
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| Exploring Memory Persistency Models for GPUs [Paper] Zhen Lin, Mohammad Alshboul (North Carolina State University); Yan Solihin (University of Central Florida); Huiyang Zhou (North Carolina State University) |
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| Adaptive Task Aggregation for High-Performance Sparse Solvers on GPUs [Paper] Ahmed E. Helal (Virginia Tech); Ashwin M. Aji, Michael L. Chu (AMD); Bradford M. Beckmann (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc); Wu-chun Feng (Virginia Tech) |
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| EDGE: Event-Driven GPU Execution [Paper] Tayler Hetherington, Maria Lubeznov, Deval Shah, Tor M. Aamodt (The University of British Columbia) |
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| 3:00pm-3:30pm | Coffee Break |
| 3:30pm-4:30pm | Session 6A: Compiler Optimization and Code Generation 2 (Room: Emerald Ballroom 1) Chair: Gagan Agrawal (Ohio State University) |
| Generating Portable High-Performance Code via Multi-Dimensional Homomorphisms [Paper] Ari Rasch, Richard Schulze (University of Münster); Sergei Gorlatch (University of Muenster) |
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| Absinthe: Learning an Analytical Performance Model to Fuse and Tile Stencil Codes in One Shot [Paper] Tobias Gysi, Tobias Grosser, Torsten Hoefler (ETH Zurich) |
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| Session 6B: Memory/Storage Systems 2 (Room: Emerald Ballroom 3) Chair: Michael Spear (Lehigh University) |
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| Reducing Data Movement and Energy in Multilevel Cache Hierarchies without Losing Performance: Can you have it all? [Paper] Jiajun Wang (ECE Dept, Univ. of Texas, Austin); Prakash Ramrakhyani, Wendy Elsasser (arm Research); Lizy John (ECE Dept, Univ. of Texas, Austin) |
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| Multiversioned Page Overlays: Enabling Faster Serializable Hardware Transactional Memory [Paper] Ziqi Wang (Carnegie Mellon University); Vivek Seshadri (Microsoft Research India); Todd Mowry (Carnegie Mellon University); Michael Kozuch (Intel Labs and Carnegie Mellon University) |
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| 6:00pm-8:00pm | Banquet (Room: Emerald Ballroom 2) |
| Day 3: | September 25th, Wednesday |
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| 8:00am-12:00pm | Registration (Room: Foyer 3) |
| 7:30am-8:30am | Continental Breakfast (Room: Emerald Foyer) |
| 8:30am-9:30am | Keynote – The 3rd Wall and the need for Innovation in Architectures (Room: Emerald Ballroom 1) Speaker: Dr. Peter Kogge (University of Notre Dame) Chair: Andrew Lumsdaine (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) |
| 9:30am-10:00am | Coffee Break |
| 10:00am-12:00pm | Session 7: Parallel Algorithms and Applications (Room: Emerald Ballroom 1) Chair: Antonino Tumeo (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) |
| Computing Three-dimensional Constrained Delaunay Refinement Using the GPU [Paper] Zhenghai Chen, Tiow-Seng Tan (National University of Singapore) |
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| A Synchronization-Avoiding Distance-1 Grundy Coloring Algorithm for Power-Law Graphs [Paper] Jesun Sahariar Firoz, Marcin Zalewski, Andrew Lumsdaine (Pacific Northwest National Lab) |
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| Accelerating DCA++ (Dynamical Cluster Approximation) Scientific Application on the Summit supercomputer [Paper] Giovanni Balduzzi (ETH Zurich); Arghya Chatterjee, Ying Wai Li, Peter Doak (Oak Ridge National Laboratory); Urs Haehner (ETH Zurich); Ed D’Azevedo, Thomas Maier (Oak Ridge National Laboratory); Thomas Schulthess (ETH Zurich) |
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| A Methodology for Characterizing Sparse Datasets and Its Application to SIMD Performance Prediction [Paper] Gangyi Zhu, Peng Jiang (The Ohio State University); Gagan Agrawal (Ohio State University) |
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| 10:00am-12:00pm | Student Research Competition (SRC) Poster Session (Room: Belltown) |