Tutorial on Infrastructure and Tools
for Mobile Computer Architecture Research
with an Emphasis on Real System Measurement
Computer architecture research has been largely driven by access and awareness of infrastructures such as simulators and workload suites. Many computer architecture domains such as GPUs and datacenters have mature infrastructures that have been developed for years and are now widely adopted. The nature of mobile research emphasizes real system study and measurement. However, we currently lack systematic infrastructures that are easily accessible and widely adopted. We see this as the major barrier of entry.
The tutorial is a step to overcome this increasing barrier. We present a series of tools and infrastructures that enable computer system and architecture research in the mobile computing space. The tutorial will span three key components of mobile computing: software, hardware, and end-users. The tools that we will cover strongly emphasize real system measurement, including performance, power/energy, and user QoS experience.
Time |
Format |
Title |
Speaker |
---|---|---|---|
9:00 AM - 9:10 AM | Opening and Introduction | Vijay Janapa Reddi | |
9:10 AM - 9:45 AM | Invited Talk | System and Toolchain Support for Intermittent Computing | Brandon Lucia |
9:45 AM - 10:30 AM | Designing for
Smartphone System and Architectures for Performance and Energy Efficiency |
Carole-Jean Wu | |
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM | Coffee Break | ||
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM | Invited Talk | Controlling Mobile and Embedded Applications | Hank Hoffman |
11:45 AM - 12:30 PM | An Overview of Infrastructure and Benchmarks for Deep Neural Networks |
Brandon Reagen | |
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM | Lunch Break | ||
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM | Tutorial | Modeling Emerging Non-volatile
Memories with NVsim and NVsim-CAM |
Shuangchen Li |
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM | Studying User Interactivity with MOSAIC | Matthew Halpern | |
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM | Quantifying End-user Quality-of-Experience | Matthew Halpern | |
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM | Coffee Break | ||
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM | Tutorial | Energy and Power Measurement on Mobile Devices | Yuhao Zhu |
We invite participation primarily in two forms:
Do you have a mobile research tool you would like to introduce to a broader audience? Apply to present it at MobileTools! MobiTools invites mobile research tool developers to give a thirty minute presentation about their tool and how to conduct productive research with it. An ideal presentation will briefly introduce the tool and its underlying mechanisms and then walk the audience through a (possibly hands on) "quickstart" tutorial.
Are you a computer system enthusiast and looking to get your hands dirty on some real mobile devices? Attend MobiTools! MobiTools will expose you to the cutting-edge mobile research and its infrastructures. Being co-located with ISCA provides an opportunity to have some great invited speakers and an exciting panel: a great opportunity to see the masterminds behind mobile computer architecture research.
Sign Up to Attend MobiTools!Yuhao Zhu is a Ph.D. student at The University of Texas at Austin. He likes building better hardware and software to make next-generation client and cloud computing faster, more energy efficient, and deliver better Quality of Experience.
Matthew Halpern is a Ph.D. student at The University of Texas at Austin. He is interested in leveraging crowdsourcing and big data techniques to build more intelligent and responsive mobile Web services at both the client and server side.
Vijay Janapa Reddi is an Assistant Professor at The University of Texas at Austin. He is interested in system architecture and software research to address performance, energy, and reliability issues for mobile and high-performance computing.