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:

• Industry participants: $50
• Academic participants: $50
• Students: FREE (Student registrations must be sponsored by a faculty member.)

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:

• 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 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.