Workshop on Hardware Support for Objects and Microarchitectures for Java

[Samarjeet S Tomar]

 		Workshop on Hardware Support for Objects
                   and Microarchitectures for Java

                     In conjunction with ICCD '99
		http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~chase/ICCD

                        Oct 10, Austin, Texas


Most modern programming languages and techniques include
object-oriented methods.  However, mainstream computer architectures
have not acknowledged the presence of objects.  With the widespread
use of object-oriented programming languages and techniques, it is
becoming important for computer architects to acknowledge the
existence of these methods and their impacts on execution (including
high object allocation rates, the impact of garbage collection,
dynamic binding of calls to methods, and dynamic assembly of programs
at run time from components obtained from disparate sources).

Java is an exciting new object-oriented technology.  Hardware for
supporting objects and other features of Java such as multithreading,
dynamic linking and loading is the focus of this workshop.  The impact
of Java's features on micro-architectural resources and issues in the
design of Java-specific architectures are interesting topics that
require immediate attention of the research community.

The purpose of this workshop is to draw together researchers and
practitioners concerned with hardware support for objects and Java
implementations for a stimulating exchange of views.  To the
organizers' best knowledge, this is the first event of its kind, and
as such is an attempt to begin the task of building a community in
this field.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
 - Microarchitectural features for object-oriented systems, especially
   their quantitative evaluation
 - Measurements of hardware-level behavior of object-oriented systems
 - Design of Java Processors: resource, power and performance constraints
 - Tuning Java compilers and applications to efficiently utilize hardware 
   resources
 - Memory hierarchy for supporting objects
 - Instruction set designs and enhancements to support objects and 
   Java execution.  

The format of the workshop will include presentations of selected
papers and plenty of time for discussion. There will be a special
panel session on 

"How can hardware support Java Virtual Machine Implementations"

Panelists
---------
David Hardin, Rockwell
Jim Smith, University of Wisconsin Madison
Marc Tremblay, Sun Microsystems

Moderator: Mario Wolczko, Sun Microsystems


Detailed submission guidelines

Talks will be accepted on the basis of a position paper relevant to
the theme of the workshop.  Papers should be at most 5 pages in
length.  The paper should be submitted in PDF format by email to the
workshop co-chair: mario.wolczko at sun.com. Please include the following
information in plain text with the submission:
 - author's Name(s), 
 - postal address,
 - phone and FAX numbers,
 - email address,
 - title,
 - 5 keywords and
 - abstract.
Hard copy (postal) submissions will not be accepted.
 
Please email submissions by July 12.  You should receive an
acknowledgement of your submission by the following week.  Authors
will be notified of acceptance or rejection by Aug 9 and the final
papers are due by August 23.

All submissions will be refereed, and workshop attendees will receive
copies of all accepted papers.


Important Dates:

 July 12 Electronic submission due
 Aug 9: Notification of authors
 Aug 23: Final version of papers due


Organizers

Workshop Co-Chairs:  
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Penn State Univ.      vijay at cse.psu.edu
Mario Wolczko, Sun Microsystems Inc.           mario.wolczko at sun.com


Program Committee

Timothy Heil, Univ. of Wisconsin       		    	 heilt at ece.wisc.edu
Lizy John, Univ. of Texas at Austin        		 ljohn at ece.utexas.edu
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Penn State Univ. 		 vijay at cse.psu.edu
Nagarajan Ranganathan, Univ. of S. Florida         	 ranganat at csee.usf.edu 
Mario Wolczko, Sun Microsystems Inc.            	 mario.wolczko at sun.com