"Community Workshop - Day 1" - January 18th, 2016
"Community Workshop - Day 2" - January 19th, 2016
“Minimizing Energy Consumption of Computing to The Limit” - January 20th, 2016
Co-located with HiPEAC 2016 Conference, Prague - https://www.hipeac.net/2016/prague/
Scope of the Workshops
Energy consumption of information and communication technologies (ICT) has grown dramatically in the recent years. In addition, heat production during computation has become a key challenge to address in order to make computing systems operate in a reliable manner, especially in high-performance computing (HPC). Similarly, in mobile devices it has become key the development of autonomous power sources and technologies to deploy long-lasting low-power devices. Therefore, this workshop explores recent advances and future challenges in these fields, as it is aimed at promoting the best practices towards “zero-power ICT” strategies and energy-minimal HPC systems.
Stemming from the research efforts being carried in EU projects related to this topic, aligned with the ICT-Energy Coordination Activity (www.ict-energy.eu), this workshop focuses on opportunities and challenges of novel energy-efficient computing solutions (both for ultra-low power mobile systems and HPC servers). Especial interest will be given to approaches at the interface between hardware and software, as well as promising research directions, covering different layers of the hardware-software stack, towards the realization of energy-minimal computing systems.
Topics of interest for presentation at the workshop include (but are not limited to)
- Low-power hardware solutions (near- or sub-threshold operation, approximate computing, reversible computing, application-specific accelerators, etc.)
- Energy management software technologies at design- and/or run-time (compilation techniques, operating system management, application-based optimizations etc.)
- Energy generation, and monitoring solutions for power or temperature.
- Energy-aware computing in HPC systems and datacenters.
| Agenda - January 18th, 2016 | |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Welcome and Introduction to ICT-Energy (Luca Gammaitoni) |
| 10:15 - 13:00 | Current research activities in the ICT-Energy consortium, part1 (chairman Vincent Heuveline) |
| An energy-efficient parallel multigrid method (Martin Wlotzka) | |
| Questioning fundamental energy consumption limits in computing devices (Davide Chiuchiu) | |
| An energy-efficient parallel multigrid method (Martin Wlotzka) | |
| Energy Transparency from Hardware to Software: More Power to Software Developers! (Kerstin Eder) | |
| Instrumenting Program Semantics for Energy Analysis (John Gallagher) | |
| 14:00 - 17:30 | Strategic Future Research Agenda and Field Survey |
| Presentation of the current status of the Strategic Future Research Agenda (Douglas Paul) | |
| Break out group discussions | |
| Reporting from groups, wrap-up | |
| Presentation of the current status of the Field Survey (John Patrick Gallagher) | |
| Formation of work groups and definition of action lists | |
| Wrap-up | |
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Agenda - January 19th, 2016 |
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| 10:00 - 13:00 | Current research activities in the ICT-Energy consortium, part 2 (chairman Luca Gammaitoni) |
| Energy-Efficient Monitoring and Management of Geo-Distributed Data Centers (Pablo G. Del Vallè) | |
| TOLOP - Towards Low Power Information and Communication Technology using Single-Electron Devices (M. Fernando Gonzalez-Zalba) | |
| Energy-efficient computer architecture (Oscar Palomar) | |
| Energy Harvesting, storage and power management (Georgios Fagas) | |
| MicroEnergy Day 2016 (Chiara Benedetta Mezzetti, Francesco Orfei) | |
| 14:00 - 17:30 | Science Book and Benchmarking Tools |
| Presentation of the current status of the ICT-Energy Science Book (Georgios Fagas) | |
| Benchmarking Tools (Luca Gammaitoni) | |
| Discussion | |
| ICT-Energy Board Meeting (restricted to ICT-Energy consortium members) | |
| Agenda - January 20th, 2016 | |
| 10:00 - 10:10 | Welcome and Introduction (Prof. David Atienza Alonso, EPFL) |
| 10:10 - 10:20 | Introduction to ICT Energy community (Prof. Luca Gammaitoni, Univ. of Perugia) |
| 10:20 - 11:00 | Keynote “Sub-pj per operation scalable computing - the next challenge” (Prof. Luca Benini, ETHZ, Switzerland) |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Session I: Hardware technologies for ultra-low power systems design (Chairman: Pablo G. Del Valle, EPFL) |
| “Reducing Power Dissipation in Logic Gates” (Francesco Orfei and Luca Gammaitoni; NiPS Lab - Univ. of Perugia) | |
| “Towards Near-Threshold Server Processors” (Ali Pahlevan, Javier Picorel, et al.; EPFL, ETHZ, Univ. of Bologna and UCM) | |
| “Accelerator based on Spiking Neural Networks” (Sergei Dytckov and Masoud Daneshtalab; Univ. of Turku and Royal Institute of Technology) | |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Session II: Software technologies and methodologies for ultra-low power systems design (Chairman: Dr. Kerstin Eder, Univ. of Bristol) |
| “Dealing with Peripheral Energy Consumption on the OS Layer of Deeply Embedded Systems” (Markus Buschhoff, TU Dortmund) | |
| “An Energy-Efficient Parallel Multigrid Method” (Martin Wlotzka and Teresa Beck, IWR - Heidelberg University) | |
| “Run-Time Resource Management in MANGO for Energy Efficient Execution on Heterogeneous Architectures” (Giuseppe Massari, José Flich, Giovanni Agosta, et al., UPV, Politec. di Milano and Univ. of Zagreb) | |
| 13:00 | End of workshop |
Submission Guidelines
The workshop seeks 1-page abstract submissions from academia and industry, presenting research contributions or industrial case studies. Submissions must be written in English and sent by e-mail to David Atienza (david.atienza @ epfl.ch) before the deadline.
Important Dates
1-page abstract submission deadline: December 1st, 2015
Acceptance Notification: December 7th, 2015
Workshop Organizers
David Atienza, EPFL, Switzerland (david.atienza@epfl.ch)
Kerstin Eder, Univ. of Bristol, United Kingdom (Kerstin.Eder@bristol.ac.uk)
Luca Gammaitoni, Univ. of Perugia, Italy (luca.gammaitoni@nipslab.org)
Please download the CALL FOR PAPER (pdf).
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