CfP - HARSH 2014

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HARSH 2014
Workshop on Highly-Reliable Power-Efficient Embedded Designs

CALL FOR PAPERS
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February 15-16th, 2014, Orlando, Florida
In conjunction with HPCA-2014, CGO-2014, and PPoPP-2014

Website: http://researcher.ibm.com/project/5152


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CALL FOR PAPERS
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HARSH-2014 will provide a unique forum for the discussion of the
challenges in the design and operation of harsh environment-capable
embedded processors.

Nowadays, embedded chips are deployed almost everywhere, from mobile
phones to on-board electronics in automobiles and satellites.
Different from conventional microprocessor designs, the operation
conditions of embedded processors are severely constrained by the
environment. For example, in aerospace applications, the computer
installed on Mars rover "Curiosity" has to tolerate extreme space
radiation and temperatures, operate at low power, and provide enough
computation capability to perform mission-critical tasks. Embedded
designs for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) also encounter extremely
challenging design requirements. Despite their tight power budget,
UAV chips demand significant throughput for real-time high-speed
image processing. In the context of oil and gas exploration and
extraction, embedded processors can be found even on the drill string
itself, to process sensor inputs in real time while withstanding high
temperatures and humidity levels.

To guarantee reliability across these drastically diverse
environments, the design and operation of embedded processors should
not be solely confined to the chip but traverse different layers in
the computing system, involving firmware, operating system,
applications, as well as power management units and communication
interfaces. The goal of HARSH-2014 is to facilitate the exchange of
the latest ideas, insights, and knowledge related to all critical
aspects of new-generation harsh environment-capable embedded
processors, including micro-architectural approaches, cross-stack
hardware/software techniques, and emerging challenges and
opportunities. We hope to attract a group of interdisciplinary
researchers from academia, industry, and government research labs.

In addition to the presentation of selected paper submissions,
keynote speakers will be invited to kick-off the workshop sessions
and a "Best Paper" award will be presented at the conclusion of the
workshop. To encourage discussion between participants, HARSH-2014
will organize dedicated programs for discussion between presenters
and the audience.


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TOPICS
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Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

(1) Architecture design and implementation for highly-reliable
power-efficient embedded processors:
- Architectural approaches for reliability assurance under
very-low power budgets.
- Availability, soft-error tolerance and recovery issues.
- Highly-reliable cache/memory hierarchies.
- Massive heterogeneous processing capabilities.
- Power management techniques.
- Very-low power, reliable real-time processing.
- Specialized accelerator architectures and unique designs.
- Reusable and/or reconfigurable embedded designs.
- Packaging and cooling.

(2) Cross-stack hardware/software techniques:
- Cross-stack approaches for reliability assurance under
very-low power budgets.
- Reliability- and power-aware operating systems, compilers,
workload managers, firmware and other software.
- Workload analysis and optimization for reliable low-power
embedded systems.

(3) Applications:
- Aerospace: unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), planetary rovers
and space probes, satellites, avionic systems, etc.
- Medical support: lifesaving monitors, portable medical devices,
high-end imaging systems, etc.
- Oil and gas exploration and extraction: unmanned underwater
vehicles (UUVs), measurement while drilling (MWD), logging
while drilling (LWD), etc.
- Aerial surveillance.
- Disaster search, rescue, and relief.
- Novel applications for highly-reliable low-power embedded
chips.


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SUBMISSIONS
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Papers reporting original research results pertaining to the above
and related topics are solicited. Full paper manuscripts must be in
English of up to 6 pages (using the IEEE two-column format). The
online submission site is EasyChair. If web submission is not
possible, please contact the program co-chairs for alternate
arrangements.

To submit regular papers to the workshop, please visit:
http://researcher.ibm.com/project/5152

If you have questions regarding submission, please contact us:
harsh2014@easychair.org

Important Dates:

- Dec 23, 2013: Submission deadline
- Jan 17, 2014: Notification of acceptance
- Jan 31, 2014: Final paper submission
- Feb 15-16, 2014: Workshop date


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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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- Augusto Vega (IBM)
- Xuan Zhang (Harvard University)
- David Brooks (Harvard University)
- Alper Buyuktosunoglu (IBM)
- Pradip Bose (IBM)