ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on
Memory Systems Performance
(MSP 2005)

June 12, 2005 Chicago, Illinois USA
Call for Papers
Co-located with the ACM SIGPLAN PLDI’05

Update: Deadline Extension
           Final submissions now due Friday, March 4, 2005
           Abstracts due Friday, February 25, 2005

Overview   The workshop focuses on improving the memory system performance of general-purpose programs. Architecture, programming, and application trends have made memory performance a critical issue in the speed and efficiency of computer systems. The workshop is multi-disciplinary and fosters collaboration among researchers in a range of fields including compilers, memory management, programming languages, architecture, operating systems, performance evaluation, and database systems.

Papers are solicited on all aspects of memory system performance. These include, but are not limited to:

• Analysis of memory systems performance (including power, bandwidth, and latency)
• Techniques for characterizing the memory behavior of programs
• Static and dynamic techniques for understanding and improving memory performance
• Memory hierarchy optimizations
• Prefetching and compression to improve memory system performance
• Code/data/page placement to eliminate page faults and cache misses
• Moving computation to data
• Managed memory and garbage collection optimizations
• Improving the timing predictability of memory systems
• Improving memory system performance in constrained devices
• Impact of new storage technology (e.g., MRAM)
• Using performance monitoring hardware to guide memory optimizations
   

Software, hardware and hybrid approaches are encouraged.  In addition, we solicit papers from practitioners describing problems and experience with memory performance in specific application domains.

Submission Guidelines   Full paper submissions should not exceed 10 pages in length and should be submitted electronically through the web site available from the workshop home page (see below). Copies of accepted papers will be made available at the workshop and through the ACM digital library. Submitted papers must not be simultaneously under review for any other conference or journal, and authors should point out any substantial overlap with their previously published or currently submitted work.

Key Information

• Full paper due: Friday March 4, 2005, at 11:59:59 PM Pacific time (firm deadline)
• Abstracts due: Friday February 25, 2005
• Notification: approximately Friday April 8, 2005
• Final paper: approximately Friday May 27, 2005
• Workshop Web Site: http://research.microsoft.com/~zorn/MSP05/home.htm
   

Organizing Committee