Preliminary Schedule

8:30–8:50	Welcome
8:50–9:00	Parnian Mokri and Mark Hempstead Detecting Coarse Grained Reconfigurable kernels using ReconfAST
9:00–9:20	Michel Kinsy, Mihailo Isakov, Alan Ehret and Donato Kava Self-Aware Polymorphic Adaptive (SAPA) Architectures
9:20–9:40	Ayse Coskun, Furkan Eris, Ajay Joshi, Andrew B. Kahng, Yenai Ma, Saiful Mojumder and Tiansheng Zhang Reclaiming Dark Silicon Using Thermally-Aware Chiplet Organization in 2.5D Integrated Systems
9:40–10:00	Jiwon Choe, Jonathan Lister, R. Iris Bahar, Maurice Herlihy and Tali Moreshet Managing Concurrent Data Structures with Processing-In-Memory
10:00–10:20	Coffee break
10:20–10:40	Brandon Reagen, Udit Gupta, Robert Adolf, Michael Mitzenmacher, Alexander Rush, Gu-Yeon Wei and David Brooks Compressing Deep Neural Networks with Probabilistic Data Structures
10:40–11:00	Aditya Narayan, Tiansheng Zhang, Shaizeen Aga, Satish Narayanasamy and Ayse Coskun An Automated Framework for Memory Allocation in Heterogeneous Memory Systems
11:00–11:20	Michel Kinsy, Miguel Mark, Alan Ehret and Donato Kava Sphinx: A Secure Architecture Based on Binary Code Diversification and Execution Obfuscation
11:20–12:00	Joel Emer, Srini Devadas, Adam Belay, and James Mickens Invited Panel
12:00–1:00	Lunch
1:00–1:20	Aaron Welch An overview on the impact of Spectre and Meltdown on ARM
1:20–1:40	Shankar Viswanathan Side Channel attacks on modern hardware
1:40–2:00	Rohan Garg and Gene Cooperman Proxies for checkpointing in DMTCP: Staying close to the Hardware, but not too Close (Examples given from GPUs, RDMA networks, and other HPC components)
2:00–2:20	John Leidel xBGAS: A RISC-V Extension for Datacenter-Scale Addressing
2:20–2:40	Coffee break
2:40–3:00	Kaustubh Shivdikar, Kaushal Paneri and David Kaeli Speeding up DNNs using HPL based Fine-grained Tiling for Distributed Multi-GPU Training
3:00–3:20	Mihailo Isakov and Michel Kinsy Hardware Efficient Sparse Neural Network Training
3:20–3:40	Babatunde Egbantan, Fritz Previlon and David Kaeli Comparing HPC Applications Kernels Vulnerability Using LLFI-GPU
3:40–4:00	Rishiyur Nikhil The Bluespec RISC-V Verification Factory
4:00–4:20	Zheming Jin, Kazutomo Yoshii and Hal Finkel Understanding How OpenCL Parameters Impact the Performance of Streaming Kernels on FPGA

Registration

Registration is not required this year.

• Industry participants: FREE (No registration required)
• Academic participants: FREE (No registration required)

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

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:

Deadline Extended January 5, 2018
Abstract Submission Deadline: January 12, 2018
Author Notification: January 15, 2018
Workshop Date: Friday, January 26, 2018

Submissions:

We invite abstracts, two pages or shorter, for consideration for presentation at BARC 2018. 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=barc2018.

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

For questions, contact Kurt Keville or Arun Thomas.

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:

• Manuscript should be two-pages long.
• Text should use two column format.
• One-inch margin should be left on all sides.
• Using at least a 10-pt font is recommended.
• Submissions should be in PDF format.

The technical program of BARC 2018 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 2018 will be held on the ground floor of the Stata Center, Gates Building at MIT.