Call for Papers

Sponsored by USENIX, the Advanced Computing Systems Association

HotPower '14, the 2014 Workshop on Power-Aware Computing and Systems, will be co-located with the 11th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI ’14) and take place on Sunday, October 5, 2014.

Important Dates

Paper submissions due: July 25, 2014—Deadline extended!
Notification to authors: September 1, 2014
Final paper files due: September 24, 2014

Workshop Organizers

Program Co-Chairs

Yuvraj Agarwal, Carnegie Mellon University

Karthick Rajamani, IBM

Program Committee

Murali Annavaram, University of Southern California

Aruna Balasubramanian, Stony Brook University

Nilanjan Banerjee, University of Maryland

Richardo Bianchini, Rutgers University and Microsoft

Ranveer Chandra, Microsoft Research

Jichuan Chang, Google

Trishul Chilimbi, Microsoft Research

Prabal Dutta, University of Michigan

Wei Huang, AMD

Canturk Isci, IBM

Ravishankar Iyer, Intel

Benjamin Lee, Duke University

Janani Mukundan, IBM

Balakrishnan (Murali) Narayanaswamy, University of California, San Diego

Vijay Reddi, University of Texas, Austin

Jacob Sorber, Clemson University

Mani Srivastava, University of California, Los Angeles

Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Pennsylvania State University

Xiaorui Wang, The Ohio State University

Pei Zhang, Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley

Lin Zhong, Rice University

Steering Committee Chair

Feng Zhao, Microsoft Research

Overview

HotPower provides a forum in which to present the latest research and to debate directions, challenges, and novel ideas about building energy-efficient computing systems. In addition, researchers coming from diverse fields such as computer architecture, systems and networking, measurement and modeling, language and compiler design, mobile computing, and embedded systems will have the opportunity to interact with one another, explore cross-cutting ideas, and develop new perspectives from the interactions.

The workshop seeks submissions of early-stage research and novel ideas that will generate interesting discussion, e.g., unconventional, promising ideas with early results. Submissions about firsthand experience, lessons, challenges and problems from building and operating real-world systems are also welcome.

Topics

Topics of interest in energy-efficient computing include but are not limited to:

Instrumentation and measurement of power, performance, efficiency and trade-offs
Energy-efficiency metrics and benchmarks
Software optimization, application design
System-level optimization, cross-layer coordination
Scheduling, run-time adaptation, feedback control
Efficient processor, network, storage hardware and power-aware computer architecture
Reliability and power management
Analysis and solutions at different levels—server, datacenter, and embedded systems
Renewable energy sources, energy storage technologies
Sustainability and life-cycle analysis

Submission Instructions

Submitted papers must be no longer than five single-spaced 8.5" x 11" pages, including figures, tables, and references, two-column format, using 10-point type on 12-point (single-spaced) leading, in a text block 6.5" wide x 9" deep. Author names and affiliations should appear on the title page. If you wish, use the USENIX LaTeX or Word templates from the USENIX templates page.

All papers must be in PDF format and must be submitted through the Web submission form.

All papers will be available online to registered attendees before the conference. If your accepted paper should not be published prior to the event, please notify production@usenix.org. The papers will be available online to everyone beginning on the day of the conference, October 5, 2014.

Papers accompanied by nondisclosure agreement forms will not be considered. All submissions will be treated as confidential prior to publication on the USENIX HotPower '14 Web site; rejected submissions will be permanently treated as confidential.

Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. USENIX, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may, on the recommendation of a program chair, take action against authors who have committed them. See the USENIX Conference Submissions Policy for details.

Questions? Contact your program chairs, hotpower14chairs@usenix.org, or the USENIX office, submissionspolicy@usenix.org.

By submitting a paper, you agree that at least one of the authors will attend the conference to present it. If the conference registration fee will pose a hardship for the presenter of the accepted paper, please contact conference@usenix.org.

If your paper is accepted and you need an invitation letter to apply for a visa to attend the conference, please contact conference@usenix.org as soon as possible. (Visa applications can take at least 30 working days to process.) Please identify yourself as a presenter and include your mailing address in your email.