Preliminary Schedule

8:30–9:00
Welcome
9:00–9:20
Mark C. Jeffrey, Suvinay Subramanian, Maleen Abeydeera, Joel Emer and Daniel Sanchez
Making Parallelism Pervasive with the Swarm Architecture
9:20–9:40
Yuhao Zhu
The Watt-Wise Web
9:40–10:00
Kurt Keville
RV128 and the Path to Embedded Exascale
10:00–10:20
Sae Kyu Lee, Tao Tong, Xuan Zhang, David Brooks and Gu-Yeon Wei
Enabling Highly-Efficient Power Delivery for Chip Multiprocessors with Voltage Stacking
10:20–10:50
Coffee break
10:50–11:10
Masab Ahmad and Omer Khan
Situationally Adaptive Scheduling of Graph Algorithms on Single-Chip Parallel Machines
11:10–11:30
Parnian Mokri and Mark Hempstead
ReconfASTs: Early-stage Identification of Reconfigurable Accelerators with Annotated Abstract Syntax Tree
11:30–11:50
Michel Kinsy, Rashmi Agrawal and Hien Nguyen
Fast Processing of Large Graph Applications Using Asynchronous Architecture
11:50–1:00
Lunch
1:00–1:20
Robert Adolf, Brandon Reagen, Gu-Yeon Wei, and David Brooks
How Not to Write a Deep Learning Benchmark
1:20–1:40
Leila Delshadtehrani, Jonathan Appavoo, Manual Egele, Ajay Joshi and Schuyler Eldridge
Varanus: An Infrastructure for Programmable Hardware Monitoring Units
1:40–2:00
Louie Liu, Zhen Hang Jiang, Yunsi Fei, and David Kaeli
Side-channel Analysis on the ARM Cortex A9 Microprocessor
2:00–2:20
Steven Hoover
Combating the Complexity Crisis with "Timing Abstraction"
2:20–2:50
Coffee break
2:50–3:10
Hokchhay Tann, Soheil Hashemi, Iris Bahar and Sherief Reda
Hardware-Software Co-design Techniques for Deep Neural Networks
3:10–3:30
Zafar Takhirov, Joseph Wang, Venkatesh Saligrama and Ajay Joshi
Energy-Efficient Classification: Adaptive Approach
3:30–3:50
Patrick Reilly, Leiming Yu and David Kaeli
Accelerating Machine Learning Algorithms in Python
3:50–4:10
Qingchuan Shi, Hamza Omar and Omer Khan
Towards Resilient yet Efficient Parallel Execution of Convolutional Neural Networks
4:10–4:20
Break
4:20–5:00
Invited Panel

Registration

Registration fees are as follows:

Registration includes breakfast, light lunch, and coffee during all breaks.

Registration site is online here.

Call for Abstracts

Scope:

The goal of BARC is to provide a forum for computer architects in the Greater Boston area and beyond to get together and present/discuss the 'latest and greatest' in the area of computer architecture. Papers are being sought on many aspects of computer architecture, including (but not limited to):

  • Microarchitecture
  • Multicore/manycore processors
  • GPUs
  • Memory systems
  • I/O
  • Networking and communication
  • Low power
  • Adaptive and hybrid systems
  • Architectures based on emerging technologies
  • Accelerator-based architectures
  • Embedded processing
  • Performance evaluation techniques
  • Important Dates:

    Abstract Submission Deadline: January 9, 2017
    Author Notification: January 10, 2017
    Workshop Date: Saturday, January 28, 2017

    Submissions:

    We invite abstracts, two pages or shorter, for consideration for presentation at BARC 2016. We will also have a session of lightning talks - you should denote a lightning round talk in your title as "Lightning Round". Authors may present work they have already published elsewhere, or plan to publish in the future. We welcome participation from those outside of the Greater Boston area.

    Please submit your abstract (in PDF format) using EasyChair:
    https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=barc2017.

    Abstracts will be accepted for a regular podium presentation or for a poster presentation. All accepted abstracts will be published in the workshop proceedings.

    For questions, contact Brandon Reagen or Bob Adolf.

    The final manuscripts of all accepted abstracts will be posted on the BARC 2016 website. Please use the following guidelines for preparing the final manuscript: The technical program of BARC 2016 includes both oral presentations and poster presentations. Each oral presentation will be 20 minutes long (including Q&A). Poster authors should print their posters and bring to the workshop. The size of the posters can be up to 8'x4'.

    Directions

    BARC 2017 will be held on the ground floor of Maxwell-Dworkin at Harvard.